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Because Notre Dame just got
CANED! :p 
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It’s not inconceivable that the Vikings’ 2018 starting quarterback might not be on the current team that’s gotten off to a 6-2 start.
Case Keenum, a perennial backup who has filled in admirably as starter, can become a free agent after the season. So can Sam Bradford, the season’s starter now disabled, and Teddy Bridgewater, precariously returning after being disabled.
The big question, though, if none of the trio returns, is from where next season’s starter will come: A veteran now playing elsewhere, or the draft?
If Bridgewater, roster-activated for Sunday’s game in Washington, shows he’s capable of starting again, he could end up with a two-year contract, maybe totaling $40 million with about $20 million guaranteed.
But if during the next eight weeks Bridgewater shows that he can’t return to his former status before his horrific knee injury 14 months ago, he simply could be jettisoned as a free agent.
If the latter occurs, the Vikings could try to sign Keenum to a one-year deal for a lot more than he’s making this season ($2 million), then draft a quarterback in the first or second round next spring.
If Keenum starts the rest of the season, and the Vikings win 10 games and their division, he conceivably could get a one-year deal worth about $8 million from Minnesota.
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A national TV network’s idea that could be advantageous to an upcoming Vikings opponent was protested by the Vikings on Saturday.
Fox Sports has had the audacity — or ignorance — to allow a current NFL player to be a game analyst during a bye week for an opponent his team is still to play this season.
Tight end Greg Olsen, whose Carolina Panthers have next Sunday as their bye week, is to be a Fox analyst for the Vikings-Rams telecast on Sunday in Minneapolis. Olsen, the Panthers star tight end who had more than 1,000 yards in catches each of the previous three seasons, has been out with a foot injury but should be activated in time for the Vikings game Dec. 10 in Charlotte.
Vikings general manager Rick Spielman was on the phone to Fox Sports during halftime of Saturday’s Gophers-Nebraska game at TCF Bank Stadium. He wasn’t thrilled about Fox’s decision to allow Olsen an inside look at the Vikings before his team plays them.
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Bridgewater was activated on Wednesday, marking the first time he became eligible to play since August 2016. Head coach Mike Zimmer has not given any indication if or when the Vikings plan to turn the ball over to Bridgewater.
The Vikings’ head coach, however, is confident in the personality of his 25-year-old QB.
“Everybody just likes to be around him, he’s like the anti-me,” Zimmer joked. “He’s smiling all the time. He’s always joking around with the guys. He’s just got a great personality.”
When the Vikings signed Keenum, they knew his personality be a good fit for a potentially awkward quarterback situation. He’d been benched for No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff in 2016. The year before that he came in to relieve Nick Foles. In 2014, he played two games filling in for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Keenum’s first career action came in 2013 when he took over for Matt Schaub. Later in the year, Schaub took the job back.
This year’s in-flux situation is probably a relief for Keenum because includes his team winning with regularity.
“I think a lot of things in my life have prepared me for future things,” Keenum said. “I just got asked a few questions about Jared Goff. Last year every interview I did was about Jared so I’ve been prepared whether it’s Sam [Bradford] or Teddy [Bridgewater] or whoever else, I’ve been prepared for these types of situations.”
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To date the Vikings' 5-2 record is far more impressive than their pedigree. They haven't beaten a team that currently has a winning record since opening night.The 2017 Vikings haven’t accomplished anything yet. Not the front office, not the quarterback, the coaching staff or the defense. Not the franchise as a whole, which hasn’t won a playoff game since Brett Favre appeared in the Metrodome in the Old Things About To Collapse Bowl.
This team is 6-2 and leads the NFC North by two games. Any semblance of competence over the next five weeks should earn a division title and a winnable playoff matchup, if there is such a thing for a franchise that has won one postseason game since 2004.
What this year’s team has to prove is that it can perform competently against strong competition because to date the Vikings’ record is far more impressive than their pedigree.
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-road-...456903393/

“You easily could make an argument for Riley being the MVP,” backup guard Jeremiah Sirles said.
And what better week to do so?
The 2016 Vikings also spent Week 10 at Washington. By that time, they were down to Jake Long as their third starting left tackle, and Sam Bradford had the pile of sacks to prove it.
Three plays from the end of that game, Long tore his Achilles’ tendon. Sirles rushed onto the field as the team’s fourth left tackle in nine games.
It was fourth-and-17 from the Washington 28. Eleven seconds remained. The Vikings trailed 26-20.
“It was not a good situation,” Sirles said. “One play, one sack. It still haunts my dreams.”
The Vikings fell to 5-4 after starting 5-0. By the end of their 3-8 free fall, five people had lined up at left tackle in what became a swinging gate to Bradford’s blind side.
“Left tackle is a different animal,” Sirles said. “That’s why it’s so cool to see how well Riley is playing.”
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-first...456899363/

How Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater prepared himself for this day and this offense while stuck in rehabIn the weeks and months following his calamitous knee injury, as Teddy Bridgewater was confined to the drudgery of rehab, he was kept from the football field he’d come to regard as his sanctuary.
“It’s always hard when the guys are going to work and you have to go in the opposite direction,” he said. “It’s like when all the kids are going to PE and you have to go to detention or something like that.”
So Bridgewater did the only thing he could do: He studied.
http://www.startribune.com/how-vikings-q...456916453/

Putting the red jersey on NFL QB's game day? 

Interesting discussion on the radio today on this...