Happy Friday and Happy Family Football Day!
Today is an exciting day here at training Camp, It’s Family
Football Day today and as you can see this morning, the stands were filled. For
Family Football Day, the Verizon Vikings put on special activities throughout
the day that the whole family can enjoy.
Here is the schedule for today’s festivities:
Saturday, August 2nd – Family Football Day at Verizon Vikings Training Camp
9:30am-10:30am Vikings Village is open for the day
10:30am-11:30am Morning Walk-Thru
1:00pm-2:00pm Gatorade Jr. Training Camp
2:00pm- 3:00pm Jr. Cheerleader Clinic
7:30pm-9:30pm Practice
9:45pm Fireworks
Saturday, August 2nd – Family Football Day at Verizon Vikings Training Camp
9:30am-10:30am Vikings Village is open for the day
10:30am-11:30am Morning Walk-Thru
1:00pm-2:00pm Gatorade Jr. Training Camp
2:00pm- 3:00pm Jr. Cheerleader Clinic
7:30pm-9:30pm Practice
9:45pm Fireworks
So hope all you fans can come out, enjoy the day and some
football fun.
Because of the festivities today, this post is going to be a
shorter post, but would like to touch on a couple things. First are a couple
of questions Coach Zimmer answered during his press conference about the
practice tonight.
First question to Coach Zimmer was what situations he plans
on working on tonight.
He replied, “We have a no-huddle situation, we’ve got a two-minute, a red zone, short yardage, I think we have a couple of move-the-ball situations. Regular game-like things, so quite a few.”
He replied, “We have a no-huddle situation, we’ve got a two-minute, a red zone, short yardage, I think we have a couple of move-the-ball situations. Regular game-like things, so quite a few.”
Next question was on if he is going to do any live contact
tonight.
“No, I do not think that we are going to go live. This was
my thinking going into it: when you scrimmage against yourself, you have
twenty-two of your players out there, so the odds are twice as good that
somebody has a chance of getting hurt. I think that with the preseason games,
we will have enough time.”
Another questions asked was “What’s the latest on Robert
Blanton and Josh Robinson?”
Coach Zimmer responded, “Robert Blanton still has a hamstring injury. I don’t know how long that is going to be. Josh Robinson is really close. He probably could go tonight but we are probably going to hold him out because we have a day off tomorrow, and then he should be good to go next week.”
The last question I would like to include from the press conference is one that addresses next weeks game against the Raiders. It’s just six days away and will be an exciting start for the Vikings. A reporter asked, “What are you doing as coaches to get ready for the pre-season game?”
Zimmer’s response,
“I won’t do it tomorrow, but some of the coaches have started looking at the Raiders a little bit as far as where we’re going. We talk about game-like situations, challenges, when to use time outs, go for field goals, things like that.”
“The coaches will start looking at the Raiders but honestly, and I told our players a little bit last night, we’ve got a game in six days now. To me, this is about us and us getting better and evaluating our guys against other guys. I don’t want to go out there and trick the Raiders. I want to go out and play solid, fundamental football. Where guys aren’t thinking and their athletic ability doesn’t show up.”
“I want to find out if we can cover and can line up and play the run, and if we can block people in the running game, and if we can get open on offense and throw the ball in the right places.”
Coach Zimmer responded, “Robert Blanton still has a hamstring injury. I don’t know how long that is going to be. Josh Robinson is really close. He probably could go tonight but we are probably going to hold him out because we have a day off tomorrow, and then he should be good to go next week.”
The last question I would like to include from the press conference is one that addresses next weeks game against the Raiders. It’s just six days away and will be an exciting start for the Vikings. A reporter asked, “What are you doing as coaches to get ready for the pre-season game?”
Zimmer’s response,
“I won’t do it tomorrow, but some of the coaches have started looking at the Raiders a little bit as far as where we’re going. We talk about game-like situations, challenges, when to use time outs, go for field goals, things like that.”
“The coaches will start looking at the Raiders but honestly, and I told our players a little bit last night, we’ve got a game in six days now. To me, this is about us and us getting better and evaluating our guys against other guys. I don’t want to go out there and trick the Raiders. I want to go out and play solid, fundamental football. Where guys aren’t thinking and their athletic ability doesn’t show up.”
“I want to find out if we can cover and can line up and play the run, and if we can block people in the running game, and if we can get open on offense and throw the ball in the right places.”
That upcoming pre-season game will be Friday, August 8, at
7:00pm.
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