Links Of The Week: Quiet Times
While other teams are dealing with murder scandals and bare-assed quarterbacks, Leslie Frazier’s Vikings are keeping things pretty quiet these days, which is every bit as important as it is boring. Still, despite being in witching hour of the NFL offseason, there are some interesting notes from around the web to bring to your attention:
- While OTAs and minicamps are not exactly a true measure of a team, or individual player, reviews of Christian Ponder so far this offseason are leaving some Vikings fans a little queasy in the stomach.
- Learn a little bit more about the Vikings newest member, linebacker Desmond Bishop, by checking out this player profile. Another quick take on the acquisition can be found here.
- In case you missed it, Adrian Peterson recently made a late-night performance, and it is entertaining enough.
- Speaking of All Day, our favorite Viking was recently revealed as the best player in the league, via the NFL Network Top 100 Countdown show. Three Vikings made the list which can be viewed in its entirety right here.
- Speaking (again) of Peterson, he is up for multiple ESPY awards in July, including Best Male Athlete.
- Adrian Peterson (who else?) doesn’t mind being accused of juicing and considers it to be a compliment.
- Whether you love him or hate him, it is hard to deny that the farewell penned by Chris Kluwe is one of the best, most heartfelt that any NFL player has ever bothered to put forth.
- Jared Allen’s interest in bullriding and helping military veterans have combined into an unique charity opportunity. Don’t ever change, Jared.
- Greg Childs is certainly one of the top stories to keep an eye on this offseason.
- Vikings coordinators recently spoke about Christian Ponder, Xavier Rhodes, and Jeff Locke.
- With practice starting on July 26th the Vikings have released their entire training camp schedule.
- Minnesota-native Adam Thielen is hoping to make a name for himself in training camp.
- Defensive tackle appears like it will be heavy on rotation.
- Some post-minicamp observations including: Cordarrelle Patterson is the real deal.
- Mark Wilf recently humored the Pioneer Press in one of their increasingly odd features by naming the top five best things about owning an NFL team.
- The Aaron Hernandez situation is an unfortunate reminder that NFL players, for better or worse, are human beings whose actions impact others off the field.
- And, here it is, your moment of Zen:
