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Schefter: Authentic Kyle Rudolph Jersey , we talked at length about the status of Minnesota Vikings’ defensive end Everson Griffen and his potential return from the issues he’s currently dealing with. While head coach Mike Zimmer said that he would not be back for the Vikings’ Week 5 game against Philadelphia, it’s now sounding like it’s going to be a while before we see #97 chasing opposing quarterbacks again.Adam Schefter of ESPN is reporting that the Vikings are not expecting Griffen back “anytime soon,” according to one of his sources.Griffen has been away from the team since 20 September, when he was told by the team that he needed to get himself some help. That was followed by an incident at a Minneapolis hotel on 22 September that resulted in Griffen being placed on a health and welfare hold at a Minneapolis hospital.According to Courtney Cronin of ESPN, contrary to some of the earlier stories that had been put out there, Griffen has not been barred from the team’s facilities.As more updates continue to come in about Everson Griffen’s status and, potentially, his future with the Minnesota Vikings, we will bring them to you here.Kyle Sloter should back up Kirk Cousins Ok it’s just pre-season.But as a backup quarterback, most likely this is your season.Your chance to show what you got.Sure there’s practice, and that counts in terms of showing knowledge of the offense and ability to make throws in that setting, but it doesn’t show how you play in game situations.And the closest thing a backup quarterback has to that is preseason games.As a former starter with many games of experience in the regular season Youth Xavier Rhodes Jersey , you’d expect a guy like Trevor Siemian to show more command.More ability.He should be a little above the second stringers he’s playing against.But he didn’t.He didn’t look like a starter.He didn’t look like a guy you want starting at QB for your team either.And that’s the point.He was inaccurate.He looked poor under pressure.He did not lead second stringers, he let them down.There was a lack of energy. Quite simply, his game was not up to the task.By fairly obvious contrast, as soon as Kyle Sloter took the field in each of the first three Vikings preseason games, there was energy and leadership.There was the will to win.There was a QB looking to make plays, not just play out his time.And Sloter showed presence.Poise.Better scrambling ability.Better acccuracy.And he made plays.Every game.What plays did Siemian make?Zero.Nada.Bupkis.Sloter led drives.He came through in the clutch.He delivered when he needed to. Yes, he went down twice late on back side blitzes, but he managed to escape from several others and made plays too. Siemian never did.And, as every NFL head coach knows, if you want to win, you need a quarterback that can make plays.You can’t coach that.You can’t learn that in practice.Experience can help, but not that of Trevor Sirmian’s kind.He was not a playmaker in Denver http://www.vikingsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-adam-thielen-jersey , and he was released as a result.I’m not sure how that type of experience is a plus.It sounds good to say, “now here’s a QB that’s started a lot of games in the NFL, who can come in a take over if Cousins goes down.”But you could say that about Christian Ponder too. Yes, it may be that if Cousins went down Sloter would have a learning curve playing against starting defenses not playing a more basic scheme.But he’s also a pretty smart QB that has been good at reading defenses in the past, and a good student of the game.He’s also got all the intangibles you want in a quarterback, and that are missing in Siemian. You often here coaches talk about how draft status, etc. doesn’t matter after training camp starts.It’s what you do in practice, and with the reps given to you that matters.Well, if that’s the case, Kyle Sloter should be the primary backup to Kirk Cousins.Trevor Siemian can run the scout team.Vikings coaches need to show to young guys that if you perform well, you’ll be rewarded - just like they do by extending deserving vets with big new contracts.