Breather day today! Your thoughts?

I echo the sentiments of the updates from this squad in here. Great work to all!

I too will echo the stupidity from the slanted media crap of winners vs losers, but it comes with the territory for them...they can't help it.

It's exciting to see Flores opening the door for the rookies on defense and letting them get their feet wet with the first team. I'm really enjoying what I'm hearing, reading, and seeing with Golday. Chuck seems to be showing up a bit, but consistency for him will be key. Banks and Orange are beasts and I cannot wait to see them in action.

IceRatz16 wrote:

I echo the sentiments of the updates from this squad in here. Great work to all!

I too will echo the stupidity from the slanted media crap of winners vs losers, but it comes with the territory for them...they can't help it.

It's exciting to see Flores opening the door for the rookies on defense and letting them get their feet wet with the first team. I'm really enjoying what I'm hearing, reading, and seeing with Golday. Chuck seems to be showing up a bit, but consistency for him will be key. Banks and Orange are beasts and I cannot wait to see them in action.

I'm starting to be more of a believer that the competition will make both those guys better too...JJM may not win Qb1 at the start, but this has got to be helping him a bunch and the same for K1.

Either way, we hopefully will be dismissing myths and misconceptions on both of em. Least I hope so.

Is Golday smart enough and athletic enough to be the heir apparent (one day) to AVG???

purplefaithful wrote:

I'm starting to be more of a believer that the competition will make both those guys better too...JJM may not win Qb1 at the start, but this has got to be helping him a bunch and the same for K1.
Either way, we hopefully will be dismissing myths and misconceptions on both of em. Least I hope so.
Is Golday smart enough and athletic enough to be the heir apparent (one day) to AVG???

I don't know what Golday scored on his ACT or what his GPA was, but his work ethic and his willingness to study the playbook for multiple positions say a lot about his football IQ, leadership, and commitment to the team.

Jake Golday Academic Highlights

• Earned a 3.75 cumulative GPA as an operations management major at Cincinnati.

• Named to the Academic All-District team and advanced to the Academic All-America ballot.

• Previously maintained a 3.63 GPA in general business while playing for Central Arkansas and earning UAC All-Academic honors. [1, 2, 3]

I think its too early to see anything with the QBs, but it will soon become apparent. Murray is just going to end up in the aggregate to be more consistent and his abilities will slowly start to eek out. And then when the bullets are real, he's going to do some exciting things that will get the fans going. I'll save my questions on him for later if there are issues, but for now he's got runway and should really be judged by how he does starting with Game 1 in Green Bay. New team, new clean slate and hopefully a new attitude for K1. Its up to him.

Way too early yet on the rookies. Monday will be the first time the team is in pads, so we need to slow our roll with that a bit. But BFlo runs a meritocracy, so if you're good enough, you'll play. Doesn't matter how old you are.

Let's stay as healthy as possible and see what we've got at U.S. Bank against the Packers.

• Happy to see Golday and Banks getting 1st team reps. Golday getting snaps at OLB3 so soon is surprising. If he can be a factor there along with Ingram-Dawkins, OLB3 may no longer be the one remaining hole on the roster. I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but I think the idea that Flores isn't willing to start rookies is just a myth.

• Happy to come out of the first few days of camp without a serious injury. (I think?) I hope the signing of the new corner doesn't mean Pierre will miss time, but I would guess that is probably what it means. Like you, PF, I really would like to know what happened to Claiborne. Dear football gods, please note that I have not celebrated any other team's injuries, so please do not smite me. Amen.

• Happy that McCarthy is showing improvement in his mechanics and that Murray is showing progress within the offense. But I don't much react to, or even much care about, daily, almost hourly, observations of one QB or the other leading the competition. Nothing's clear after three practices, so nothing's changed my opinion that Murray will likely be the QB1 due to his experience advantage.

MaroonBells wrote:

•Like you, PF, I really would like to know what happened to Claiborne. Dear football gods, please note that I have not celebrated any other team's injuries, so please do not smite me. Amen.

An official reason for Minnesota Vikings rookie running back Demond Claiborne missing Saturday's training camp practice has not been announced. [1]

Practice Absence Details

• The Absence: Claiborne was not seen at Saturday's open training camp session after participating in the first few days.

• Team Policy: NFL teams are not required to issue official injury reports during training camp, leaving the exact cause of an absence unconfirmed. [1]

purplefaithful wrote:

A break for us, players and coaches...I'll bet the rooks are glad to get that week1 under their belts.Top of mind early in:1). Thx to JIT, Cricket (and others) for the video posts, well done! Salute! Appreciated!2). We might be seeing separation at QBI hate the press slant of a winner one day and a winner the next, this is practice. Should be a safe time to learn new thingsJust want to see JJM continue to improve, I really want him to be the long-time starter here one dayNeed to name Qb1 soon3). I had low expectations from some of the rooks yr1, especially Golday cause his position is so complexImpressed with him, Banks and Demmings this early on4). Sounds like running game is looking "crisp" early on?any word on why Claiborne didnt practice Saturday?

My pleasure, PF.

JustInTime wrote:

https://twitter.com/vikingzfanpage/status/2083940714228949302

Fingers crossed...toes too

So far, there hasn't been word of anything catastrophic. The Vikings are perpetually cautious with injury. Opting to sit the veteran for the remainder of the day is par for the course in the Twin Cities. No need to push things in a late-July practice.

In this case, the approach should be one that says "no news is good news." Essentially, not hearing anything likely points toward there being nothing to report. The proposed clarity from Zulgad, a muscle cramp, is likely.

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purplefaithful wrote:

We might be seeing separation at QBI hate the press slant of a winner one day and a winner the next, this is practice. Should be a safe time to learn new things

Agree, it is reminds of a pitcher in spring training who is working on his pitches not on getting batters out or winning. Both these guys should be free to work on their game, which would include doing things like throwing balls in tight spots and making plays they may necessarily do in a game without having to have a scorecard for practice. Already tiring of the daily update on who "won" the day. No one is winning the first week or two of practice, just trying to get better, develop and build chemistry.

Agree with Sticky. Too early to put much stock into anything that has occurred so far. Once the pads go on and they get closer to real football we should gain more clarity on where things stand. The ups and downs of the QB's from day to day are to be expected. It appears they are both improving, so the competition seems to be working.

purplefaithful wrote:

A break for us, players and coaches...I'll bet the rooks are glad to get that week1 under their belts.Top of mind early in:1). Thx to JIT, Cricket (and others) for the video posts, well done! Salute! Appreciated!2). We might be seeing separation at QBI hate the press slant of a winner one day and a winner the next, this is practice. Should be a safe time to learn new thingsJust want to see JJM continue to improve, I really want him to be the long-time starter here one dayNeed to name Qb1 soon3). I had low expectations from some of the rooks yr1, especially Golday cause his position is so complexImpressed with him, Banks and Demmings this early on4). Sounds like running game is looking "crisp" early on?any word on why Claiborne didnt practice Saturday?

@purplefaithful  ~ My pleasure! I'm just glad I now have the time to be able to contribute.

JJ did not have a good day yesterday. What I saw were the intensiveness' that plagued him last year. No lie. Murray looked much better of the two when they sped the practices up. JJ wasn't making decisions fast enough. Not trusting himself to throw the ball before the WR was open. If it ended today, Murray would be the guy. After watching many clips this morning, JJ worries me a bit.

To be honest though, no one knows what the plays are or what each QB is working on. I am sure they are working on plays that either JJ wants to get better at or the coaches want to see executed properly.