RandBall (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Some intrepid reporting (a friend of RandBall sent it to us) has turned up this: Adrian Peterson in a new SportsCenter commercial, with Ragnar as his personal assistant. Pretty funny stuff. Click here and then on the “This is SportsCenter — Personal Assistant” tab on the left. Vike Me.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Minnesota's last visit to Green Bay was nothing less than miserable. Adrian Peterson left Lambeau Field with a torn lateral collateral ligament in his right knee after just 11 carries for 45 yards and the Vikings were trounced, 34-0, by the Packers.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Ask the Expert: With all due respect to the great LaDainian Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson is the most physically gifted running back in the NFL. The Viking's combination of size, speed, power and elusiveness is unique in the league today.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
I do not want to hear about your fantasy football team. I do not care if you drafted Adrian Peterson in the first round and Peyton Manning in the third. I care even less than Adrian Peterson and Peyton Manning care.
NFL GridIron Gab (Free subscription) | yesterday
With everyone making their selections for division , conference and super bowl winners I thought that I would let you know my picks for the All-Pro Team. We’ll revisit this in January when the pick are actually made and see how we did. Here we go. OFFENSE QB-Tony Romo RB- Adrian Peterson and LaDainian Tomlinson FB- Tony Richardson WR- Terrell [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Adrian Peterson, RB, Vikings It's a little risky anointing someone who has had one good year in the NFL and...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 52 minutes ago
... backs in and let your receivers work on their secondary. 2. Bring a safety upYou've got to stop Adrian Peterson and that means a lot of eight-man fronts with rotating safeties. You've got to make Travaris Jackson beat you. The safeties have to play "slow to go," which means don't attack and get faked on the play-action and let Bernard Berrien beat you deep. You have to be patient....
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... in a SEASON! You know how any 200-yard games there were in NFL all last season? Three. Two by Adrian Peterson, who gets to face the Lions twice this year. He’s drooling already.On Sunday, Turner and Norwood ripped through the Detroit defense like machetes ripping through palm leaves. Every time you looked up, they seemed to be pounding the Lions’ front and the Lions’ middle for 10...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
1. Vikings 2. Packers 3. Lions 4. Bears He took the NFL by storm last season, a rookie running back who defied the doubters. Teams may have passed on Vikings tailback Adrian Peterson in the 2007 draft because of his history of injury while at Oklahoma, but...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The NFC North, without a sure-fire quarterback in the ranks, remains one of the weakest divisions.Adrian Peterson and a rugged defensive front seven make the Vikings the favorite, but they have major problems on the offensive line, at receiver and in the secondary, not to mention quarterback.Besides poor quarterbacking, both Chicago and Detroit have no established running back and...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Willis says he and NFL offensive rookie of the year Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings would run "neck and neck" as they trained for the 2007 predraft scouting combine at Athletes Performance Institute in Tempe, Ariz. Willis clocked 4.38 seconds for 40 yards during his University of Mississippi pro-day workout.
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
... I pick Manning every time. Minnesota Viking @ Green Bay Packers At 7 p.m. Eastern Monday , Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings travel to Green Bay to take on a Packers team that, for the first time in a generation, will take the field without Brett Favre behind center. Hats off to Aaron Rodgers for his willingness to wait in the wings so long for this opportunity. Fans who can’t...
The Wisconsin Sports Bar (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
My sister's dogs ate my homework, but here goes absolutely, positively nothing: NFC North Minnesota (Good - Adrian Peterson is enough in this division. Bad - If an opposing team can figure out how to tackle AP, the Vikes are done. Record - 9-7) Chicago (Good - They still have a special special team, and the aging defense should have a few stops left in them. Bad - That defense is aged,...
Pacifist Viking (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
So here we are: the Viking season just days away. Let’s take some time to discuss the players that will make or break the Vikings’ season. The Vikings have some obvious givens. The running game, featuring Adrian Peterson and Chester Taylor running behind the likes of Steve Hutchinson, is going to produce. The defensive front seven, already great at stopping the run and forcing turnovers,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
He took the NFL by storm last season, a rookie running back who defied the doubters. Teams may have passed on Vikings tailback Adrian Peterson in the 2007 draft because of his history of injury while at Oklahoma, but Peterson then passed all other contenders...
