{"id":22584,"date":"2013-10-18T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22584"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:18:13","slug":"vikings-move-harrison-smith-to-injured-reserve-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/vikings-move-harrison-smith-to-injured-reserve-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings move Harrison Smith to injured reserve list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>Earlier today, the Minnesota Vikings announced that free safety Harrison Smith will be moved to the injured reserve list (but with the designated to return notation so he&#8217;s out for at least eight weeks, but not the whole season). Minnesota&#8217;s defence was already near the bottom of the league in all measurements even with Smith playing &#8230; Monday&#8217;s game is starting to look like a great opportunity for the Giants to regain something like their normal form.<\/p>\n<p><p>In other Vikings news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/sports\/ci_24333071\/tom-powers-time-vikings-look-future-trading-adrian\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Powers of the <em>Pioneer Press<\/em><\/a> published an article today calling for the team to trade Adrian Peterson for a boatload of draft picks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s wasting his prime here. And the Vikings need bulk, not one superstar player. So trading Peterson for enough components to jumpstart the team&#8217;s development is a sound strategy. It would be tremendously unpopular, of course. But it doesn&#8217;t make sense to keep Peterson around for what could be a drawn-out rebuilding process. The team already is a long ways off and likely will be without Jared Allen and Kevin Williams next season. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Trading Peterson should be seriously considered. It would be good for him and good for the Vikings. He&#8217;s out of place here, like a Rolex on the wrist of a hobo. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a few problems with this notion, not least of which is that Peterson is a huge fan favourite and it would look very bad for the team to trade him away. It&#8217;s also not clear how much of a haul in draft picks any team would be willing to give up for him, as few teams depend as much as the Vikings do on a dominant ground game.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, there&#8217;s also the concern about what the team would do even if they did get a valuable set of draft picks in exchange for Peterson. This year, the team ended up with three first-round picks, all of whom were expected to contribute on the field. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd is on the field relatively little: less than half as many snaps as Kevin Williams. Maybe it&#8217;s those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynorseman.com\/2013\/4\/30\/4287886\/vikings-draft-2013-shariff-floyd\" target=\"_blank\">tragically short arms<\/a> holding him back.<\/li>\n<li>Xavier Rhodes is playing more (he&#8217;s in the nickel package), but the team considers Josh Robinson a more valuable cornerback than Rhodes because Robinson is the starter over Rhodes. That&#8217;d be the same Robinson that comes in dead last among all starting cornerbacks in the league. The guy who has allowed nearly every pass thrown in his direction to be completed.<\/li>\n<li>Wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson also gets on the field for a token number of snaps per game, but less than any other receiver on the roster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One has to assume that the coaching staff don&#8217;t consider <em>any<\/em> of the 2013 first-round draft picks to be worth playing much. Given all of that, what hope is there that getting a bunch of extra picks in exchange for reigning league MVP Adrian Peterson would work out any better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the Minnesota Vikings announced that free safety Harrison Smith will be moved to the injured reserve list (but with the designated to return notation so he&#8217;s out for at least eight weeks, but not the whole season). Minnesota&#8217;s defence was already near the bottom of the league in all measurements even with Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[227,938,126,179],"class_list":["post-22584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-adrianpeterson","tag-cordarrellepatterson","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Sg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24540,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22584\/revisions\/24540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}