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2009 Season
The Vikings safety play was regarded as atrocious for much of the 2009 season. While it ended up being Adrian Peterson, Brett Favre, Bernard Berrian, and Percy Harvin that “gave away” the Championship game, there is [...]
The Star Tribune just released a few interesting nuggets as to Sunday’s game.
First, Jamarca Sanford will be used in the same way he was used against the Giants. He will split snaps with current starter Tyrell Johnson. This is somewhat of an unusual move for a playoff team, as typically defensive players don’t just split [...]
Vikings seventh round flier of 2009 is backup safety Jamarca Sanford. The word “backup” may be removed from his title fairly soon if he keeps saying all the right things off the field and producing a defensive intensity on the field.
Sanford played about 20 snaps with the starting defense in the Vikings regular season finale [...]
Tyrell Johnson has received a lot of criticism on this site this season. In an effort to find out just how bad the starting strong safety has played, I ventured to one of my new favorite stats sites, Profootballfocus.com, to look at the numbers.
This year Tyrell Johnson’s regular season breaks down like this:
Snaps played: 887
Penalties [...]
Safety Tyrell Johnson started on Sunday against the Giants, and like most Vikings defenders he played pretty well. Johnson only played for the first quarter, however, as he was replaced by rookie seventh round pick Jamarca Sanford.
Sanford has been a dark horse to crack the starting roster by replacing Johnson. Johnson has struggled in coverage [...]
Welcome to our first installment (and possibly last) of my quote of the week segment.
The first quote was told to Chip Scoggins of the Star Tribune, and he posted it on his Twitter Account.
When Scoggins asked Vikings safety Tyrell Johnson how he thought he’s been playing this year, Johnson replied with:
I’ve played real good. Real [...]
It is amazing what a loss can do to the morale of a fan base. Childress mentioned in his presser on Monday that the mood in the locker room was more that of a 3-11 team rather than an 11-3 team. Judging from how I feel, and from reading comments on this site and others, [...]
The Vikings injury report is not quite as scary as it was last week.
Percy Harvin did not particpate after being out for a week due to migraines. He was present for the walk-through, however.
Limited in practice were Bernard Berrian (hamstring), Cedric Griffin (neck), Steve Hutchinson (shoulder), Tyrell Johnson (concussion), Phil Loadholt (shoulder), Karl Paymah (knee/ankle), Visanthe [...]
On Sunday, all of the Vikings faithful were keeping one eye on Jasper Brinkley at all times to see how he would do in the starting lineup.
Even with one eye on E.J. Henderson’s replacement, it was hard not to notice seventh round pick Jamarca Sanford flying around and making plays as he replaced second year [...]
Here is what is on the injury report on this fine Friday:
DOUBTFUL: Tyrell Johnson (concussion)
QUESTIONABLE: Cedric Griffin (neck), Percy Harvin (illness), Phil Loadholt (shoulder), Karl Paymah (knee), and Antoine Winfield (foot)
PROBABLE: Bernard Berrian (hamstring), Brett Favre (not injury related), Adrian Peterson (foot, ankle), Visanthe Shiancoe (ribs), Steve Hutchinson (shoulder), Bryant McKinnie (ankle), and Pat Williams [...]
