Vikings Safety Lewis Cine Continues to Show Progress in Recovery From Leg Injury

Assuming he's fully recovered, I'm cautiously optimistic the new D Coordinator will figure out how to use him and his skill set. We need impact players on Defense. Being able to get that from existing players will go a long way towards our turnaround. 

good  for the young man,  I am not expecting him to ever be able to meet the expectations of his draft position,  but I am very happy for him that it looks like he will be able to at least still try and make a career out of the game he loves.

I'm rooting for him

we are gonna need him. Opposing offenses picked on Bynum a lot with success. Im quite sure we need another year out of hitman whatever shakes out with Cine and Bynum. 

weird because bynum was damn good in Zimmers system so a big bounceback is possible. 

@"Bullazin" said: we are gonna need him. Opposing offenses picked on Bynum a lot with success. Im quite sure we need another year out of hitman whatever shakes out with Cine and Bynum. 

weird because bynum was damn good in Zimmers system so a big bounceback is possible. 

one thing I think I learned watching this D over the last 40+ years,  its damn tough to know who screws the pooch when a D isnt working.  Sure sometimes its very apparent,  but there are a lot of times a guy is late to the party and gets blamed,  but in fact he is just reacting to what he saw and is covering for another player who was out of position.  IIRC we saw this quite a bit with Greenway a few years before he retired,  he was catching all sorts of shit on the fan boards, but it came to be that he was more often than not trying to play his position and help out with a few others,  I have wondered how much of the hitmans "decline" are actually on him trying to do more than what his role is in that mess we had last year.

Amen is it a case of out of position or hesitancy because of someone else slow to recognize the play developing

There's no reason he can't come all the way back. Its all about the rehab. Throwing dirt on the kid's grave with this is way premature. 

Long road, but damned if he doesn't look pretty good for early Feb. 

Rocky start to the career for Cine. Part of the strange trade-down on draft day, then not starting or even really playing, then hurt. Definitely not how they draw it up but crazier things have happened and I'm definitely not writing him off. He was a big time playmaker at Georgia and maybe some of this career adversity will drive him to become an even better player than he otherwise would have. It's good to see him putting in the work to make it so. Rooting for him big time.

Can't wait for Flores to put him in a position to make plays downhill which is what he is best at.