Vikings cornerback Terence Newman spoke on Monday following allegations that he lead the defensive backs in going against the team’s game plan on Saturday.
After almost two days of speculation, Minnesota Vikings cornerback Terence Newman did his best to clear up some of strange questions that arose following the team’s loss to the Green Bay Packers last Saturday.
It had been previously reported that Newman and a few other Vikings corners went against the team’s game plan on Saturday and instead did what they felt would work best. However, Newman explained to the media on Monday that those allegations were not even anywhere close to being truthful.
When first asked about what exactly happened on Saturday, the corner attributed it to, “a miscommunication,” between the defensive backs and Minnesota’s coaching staff. Newman added that, “we got it corrected and there was no issues with that.”
Following his answer to the first question, Newman elaborated a little bit more on what happened in Green Bay.
“We started one way, (there) was a little grey area, went to the game, played, got it corrected. This thing is not what people think. It’s a simple miscommunication. It got fixed. There’s no issue,” explained the Vikings corner.
After each time Newman thought he was done talking about the situation, more questions continued to be asked and the corner made sure to emphasize one single point during the five minutes he spoke.
"“There’s no issue.”"
This was repeatedly muttered by Newman in his answers on Monday (15 times to be exact). It was almost as if he had been coached by someone within the Vikings’ organization on what to say.
Apparently, Bill Belichick and Marshawn Lynch are not the only people in the NFL that answer each question with one phrase.
Fellow Minnesota cornerback Captain Munnerlyn uttered much of the same responses when asked about what happened on Saturday.
"“Things got blown out of proportion a whole lot, like we (were) just refusing to listen to our coach, which wasn’t true at all.”"
Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer did the best he could to put the blame on himself for the supposed miscommunication against the Packers and said the problems in the defensive backfield only lasted for one series of plays.
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“We changed a couple calls later in the week. I probably wan’t specific enough in the things I was asking them to do,” said Minnesota’s head coach during his press conference on Monday.
Zimmer also randomly added that, “Xavier (Rhodes) and Terence, these guys are as good a people as there is in the world. They’re going to do their best every single time. They come out and they work every single day, they study, and they’re really good kids. So, I could’ve been more specific.”
What he said about Rhodes and Newman had nothing to do with the question being asked to Zimmer, but maybe it was the coach’s attempt to shift the attention away from anymore questions regarding his cornerbacks reportedly not going along with the team’s game plan.
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People can choose what they want to believe actually happened during Saturday’s game, but as far as Newman and the Vikings are concerned, “there’s no issue.”