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ORIGINAL: Jason Dorn

Folks are jumping the gun on CT. Look for 29 to make a big contribution in the second half, he always has 1-2 games where he has a couple of big TD plays...29 is due! Still has plenty left in the tank.

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Goodell transcript before congress

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_13713584

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The prevailing wisdom of the day, however, was that Congress should not get involved.
"I use the analogy of a man using a shotgun to kill the ant that crawled into his house," said Gabriel Feldman, director of the Sports Law Program at Tulane University.
"Here, we're not sure if the ant is even in the house."

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Jerry Burns, who long has been a big fan of Brett Favre, was Fran Tarkenton's offensive coordinator when Bud Grant coached the Minnesota Vikings.
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A year ago, Burns, as a Vikings fan, was salivating at the possibility of Favre joining the Vikings.
"I like how well he moves inside of the pocket," Burns said. "He finds a throwing lane and moves around and finds a receiver. When he sees an open man, he lets him have the ball.

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ORIGINAL: hrerikl

Goodell transcript before congress

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_13713584

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ORIGINAL: diggidydog

I thought that this was interesting and true...


Vikings' Hutchinson not playing up to reputation


Much was made of Vikings OLG Steve Hutchinson committing his first penalty in 27 games in Week Seven against the Steelers, an apparent testament to his discipline. But Hutchinson, long one of the most dependable linemen in the NFL, hasn't played up to his sterling reputation this season. He hasn't been bad, but a back injury clearly has limited his power and execution. A handful of mistakes — most notably, allowing a blocked field goal at the end of the half against the 49ers and getting walked back on the sack that caused a fumble recovery against the Steelers — show that Hutchinson doesn't anchor as well against powerful defensive linemen. In fact, D-linemen with great drive have given him fits at times this season, and though the Vikings are nowhere near considering benching Hutchinson, we are hearing that this problem has sounded a few alarms amongst the coaches.

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ORIGINAL: djskillz

JC, I agree that 30 years old is generally the break point for a RB. But I think it might be different in Chester's case, just because he has avoided the wear and tear of a lot of RB's, being a backup for a lot of his career. As someone (Chilly?) said: "He's still got a lot of wiggle in him."

I still think it's all about money and thoughts on regression. If they think he can be productive for another 2-3 years and he's willing to play backup for this team (both money and position-wise) then I could still see him back.

The deal is this with The Molester if he wants to lay it all out and be a feature back at his age he might get through one good year and have a high production rate then be silly putty after that. His age and the bumps and bruises will catch up to him and end his career soon . If he wants to hang around and be AD's caddy and play 3rd and passing downs and chip in when AD needs a blow then he can easily stretch his career for another 3 or 4 productive years .

It really all comes down how much of what he has left does he want throw on the table and how fast he wants to throw it !!! Personally I think he would be crazy not to want to come back and extend his career !

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you can get good young backs

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ORIGINAL: Thomas O. Eliason

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you can get good young backs

How about getting another Adrian Peterson ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_N._Peterson

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ORIGINAL: kevinemmer

Just caught up, out of town some this week...

Packer Sweep=
PRICELESS!!

Can't remember who said Palomalu shouldn't be on the "dirty" list, just look at the Pitt tape when he dove at Percy's knees in the mold of Harris (who should have made the list!).

Points I haven't seen mentioned much:
If Edwards would play consistently like he did against the Pack, instead of disappearing every other game, we'd be kicking some serious butt!
Not sure why Robison doesn't get more snaps during Ray's down games..
Jimmy Kennedy is our Cedric-story (on a lesser scale) kid has really played well when in there.

Wondering about Reynaud and hoping Chili isn't dumb enough to have Percy doing PR, it was glaring in Pre-season that he's not comfortable fielding punts and Johnson/Reynaud (esp Reynaud) are both very good at it.

Wish we'd have picked up someone like Milloy or McCallister to plug into Ty-Jo's spot for the 2nd half.
As someone mentioned, are Sanford, Frampton, Abdullah so sucky that they wouldn't be better than Ty-Jo?
Or is it Frazier that's got Johnson running in circles? (can't imagine it's Leslie's fault Ty-Jo won't use his arms when tackling).

Anyways, stoked about 7-1!!
Bring on the Kitties!!

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ORIGINAL: John Childress

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ORIGINAL: eduardo5046

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ORIGINAL: djskillz

JC, I agree that 30 years old is generally the break point for a RB. But I think it might be different in Chester's case, just because he has avoided the wear and tear of a lot of RB's, being a backup for a lot of his career. As someone (Chilly?) said: "He's still got a lot of wiggle in him."

I still think it's all about money and thoughts on regression. If they think he can be productive for another 2-3 years and he's willing to play backup for this team (both money and position-wise) then I could still see him back.

The deal is this with The Molester if he wants to lay it all out and be a feature back at his age he might get through one good year and have a high production rate then be silly putty after that. His age and the bumps and bruises will catch up to him and end his career soon . If he wants to hang around and be AD's caddy and play 3rd and passing downs and chip in when AD needs a blow then he can easily stretch his career for another 3 or 4 productive years .

It really all comes down how much of what he has left does he want throw on the table and how fast he wants to throw it !!! Personally I think he would be crazy not to want to come back and extend his career !

First off, Chester Taylor doesn't really gives us a complimentary skill set to Peterson.  As pointed out here by a great poster, he is more Peterson lite than he is a good change of pace.

Second, he slowed down 3 years in a row now.

Third, you can get good young backs that are more explosive to come in here.

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ORIGINAL: John Childress

Good call MarkSP!

"Not sure why Robison doesn't get more snaps during Ray's down games."

Robison has regressed.  At one point he seemed better than Edwards.