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Vikings Claim Sage Rosenfels Off Waivers

Dan Zinski — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:16:29 +0000

Sage Rosenfels is coming back to the team that once traded him away. The Minnesota Vikings have reportedly claimed the veteran quarterback off waivers a day after letting Donovan McNabb walk.

The Rosenfels saga in Minnesota was a sad one. Sage was acquired via trade in 2009 to compete with Tarvaris Jackson in camp, then saw himself relegated to 3rd QB duties when the Vikings went out and signed Brett Favre. Sage spent the season quietly performing his duties as clipboard caddie and official sounding-board for Favre, who after the season made special mention of the assistance Sage offered him on the sidelines. (more…)

Albert Young Listed Among the Vikings’ Inactives

Dan Zinski — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:42:02 +0000

The Albert Young era may be over before it started.

Shockingly, the man we thought was going to take over the third down back role vacated by free agent Chester Taylor is listed among Sunday’s inactives, despite not being injured that we know of.

Rookie Toby Gerhart, who missed last week’s game with an injury, will be the #2 back behind Adrian Peterson.

So, what do we now make of all the Vikings’ big talk about Young’s abilities? And what do we think of their decision to dump guys like Ryan Moats and Darius Reynaud just so they could keep a player who isn’t even good enough to crack the active list?

And I thought Brad Childress was only clueless about handling the quarterback position. Apparently, he doesn’t have much of a clue when it comes to picking back-up running backs either.

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Confidence in Percy’s Health

Jon Merckle — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:21:02 +0000

Vikings fans spent the holiday weekend digesting a trade of Sage Rosenfels & Darius Reynaud to the Giants, unexpected cuts in Javon Walker & Rhys Lloyd and TJ Houshmandzadeh going to the Ravens. But the season is only 3 days away and the time has come to talk about difference makers. Not backups, but the players you watch on SportsCenter. The players who have an 80+ rating on Madden. The players who you’d say are a “Franchise Player”. The guys who make you proud to be a fan. Insert Percy Harvin.

On August 29th, Percy said on his migraines “They found some things that we think is the main cause of it. We’re all feeling really confident. I know we said that a couple times, but I think this time we found what the main cause was. I’m not saying I won’t ever get a headache again, but hopefully, we can slow it down a little bit.”

While that may seem like wishful thinking after missing a game last year and the majority of camp (in addition to one very scary day where he collapsed at practice), every decision the Vikings made over the weekend points towards Percy being headache free.

Only 4 WRs means Percy will be playing both outside and in the slot this year. We also can expect him to get more touches than anyone other than Adrian Peterson. That’s pretty darn exciting. He averaged 13.6 yards per reception last year, was dynamic out of the backfield and will be back to his kick returning duties where he made the Pro Bowl as a rookie.

Lets all hope Percy does indeed have this problem behind him and the only migraines he’s associated with belong to opposing defensive coordinators.

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