Minnesota Vikings News and Links, 28 September 2023

“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.” – Steven Wright

A win will help everything!

Since yore last open thread …

• 2023 NFL Week 4: Minnesota Vikings at Carolina Panthers
• Vikings release RB Myles Gaskin, lose CB JoeJuan Williams to Bears
• Minnesota Vikings at Carolina Panthers: Initial injury reports for both teams

Other Vikings News

• Adam Thielen Issues 4-Word Statement on Facing Vikings

“Little bit weird, honestly,” Thielen said before a telling slip of his words in a Wednesday news conference. “I’ve never game-planned for our defense, or the Vikings defense, I should say.”

Based off what Keenan Allen was able to do, he should not need to plan too much.

• Dalton Risner Getting Reps With Vikings’ First-Team Offensive Line

“This week is another huge step for him,” O’Connell said of Risner, who was signed last week. “He’s absorbing things very well. We’re going to get him in there with the first group a little bit throughout practice and kind of have a real calculated mindset of reps for that whole interior group with Garrett (Bradbury) coming back. Whether it’s at left or right guard, we’ll see kind of a rotation in practice.

“And then I really do mean what I say: We’re going to, as a coaching staff, collectively decide the best five we can put out there and then how our depth looks in the event we’ve gotta play a new combination of guys, which has come up a lot.”

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