“New Faces” Top Frazier’s Priority List

Leslie Frazier’s first year as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings was arguably the worst season for any head coach in the history of the franchise.

This year, with the lockout in the rear view mirror, provides some hope, however, that Frazier and the Vikings will be able to utilize a full offseason to fully implement their plan to improve.  That plan, as Frazier alludes to, centers on getting all of the roster additions up to speed.

“We have a lot of work to do, as well all know,” Frazier said. “We have a lot of new faces that are going to be on our football team that are going to be starting for us and playing for us, so as a staff one of the things we’ve talked about and leading up to training camp some of the things we’ve talked about were developing the young players on our football team and trying to get those guys to be ready for that Jacksonville game and to help us throughout the season.”

“And then just working to improve throughout training camp,” Frazier continued.  “That’s the goal, to try to improve every single day in some phase. If we can do that, we’re hoping everything can come together and we can get off to a good start and have a good football season. We have a lot of work to do, but we’re excited to be down here to kickoff the 2012 season.”

On Thursday, the Vikings took care of some administrative stuff and player physicals, and Friday morning will feature a walk through with the first practice coming in the afternoon.