{"id":39675,"date":"2017-08-07T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39675"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:23:10","slug":"vikings-training-camp-oh-no-here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/vikings-training-camp-oh-no-here-we-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings training camp – “Oh, no, here we go again!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"At the Star Tribune<\/em>, Jim Souhan<\/a> explains why the recent rash of injuries at Vikings training camp is causing incidents of deja vu<\/em> for both coaching staff and fans:<\/p>\n

Reiff has missed much of the beginning of training camp with a back injury. Vikings coach Mike Zimmer says it\u2019s not serious, but it already is.<\/p>\n

The 2016 Vikings should have won 10 or 11 games even without Teddy Bridgewater and Adrian Peterson. An offensive line that collapsed like a Teflon dome in a snowstorm reduced the victory total to eight.<\/p>\n

Reiff became the Vikings\u2019 most important free agent signing. He immediately became the starting left tackle, a position that turned into a wind tunnel last year.<\/p>\n

Reiff is a former first-round draft pick. When you take a left tackle in the first round, you hope he\u2019ll hold the position for a decade or more. He lasted five years in Detroit. Then the Lions let him leave.<\/p>\n

For all of the hopes attached to him, he\u2019s a lot like the player he\u2019s replacing. Matt Kalil was a first-round pick in 2012 who lasted five years before leaving in free agency. For all of the angst caused by Kalil\u2019s regression, the Viking at this point would settle for a Kalil-like performance at left tackle. Anything but a windsock would be an improvement.<\/p>\n

So the Vikings\u2019 last stay in Mankato is not going as Zimmer would have hoped.<\/p>\n

Reiff is hurt. Even if he returns soon, he will have missed valuable time learning the offense.<\/p>\n

Free-agent running back Latavius Murray hasn\u2019t practiced. Wide receiver Laquon Treadwell is recovering from an injury he says wasn\u2019t caused by a scuffle with Antone Exum. Given the NFL\u2019s history of injury disclosure what we can take from that is that he was definitely injured in a scuffle with Exum.<\/p>\n

Reiff, Murray and Treadwell were supposed to be three reasons for optimism. Like the offensive line last year, they have become problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Star Tribune, Jim Souhan explains why the recent rash of injuries at Vikings training camp is causing incidents of deja vu for both coaching staff and fans: Reiff has missed much of the beginning of training camp with a back injury. Vikings coach Mike Zimmer says it\u2019s not serious, but it already is. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[126,179],"class_list":["post-39675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ajV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39675","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=39675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39677,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39675\/revisions\/39677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}