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‘Minnesota Really Took Me In’: Patrick Peterson Talks Return To Vikings
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Patrick Peterson is coming again to play his second season with the Minnesota Vikings. And with OTAs beginning this week, Ren Clayton describes this offseason of change for “Pat Pete.”
“It’s simply arduous to get in a groove once you get two targets per sport [laughs], it’s simply arduous,” Peterson mentioned.
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He had simply 64 targets final season, which could possibly be taken as a praise.
“It’s, however ‘Professional Soccer Focus’ don’t suppose so,” he mentioned.
The Vikings veteran nook introduced he was returning to the group a couple of weeks in the past.
“Minnesota actually took me in, took me and my household in. And I really feel like we had one thing actually good going right here. We simply wanted to get, , lead it in a unique route.”
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Patrick Peterson (credit score: CBS)
Peterson has seen new folks take management, and was glad when Ed Donatell was named defensive coordinator — a person who had recruited him out of faculty. The 2 had already spoken on the cellphone many instances previous to this week.
“He perceive that I used to be right here with these guys final yr, being the older man. I kinda need to perceive what sure gamers would possibly need to do, among the issues I’ll love to do,” he mentioned. “Giving me the philosophy of the protection. You realize, him telling me his expectations for me to get within the message by the younger guys.”
A kind of younger guys is former Inexperienced Bay Packer Chandon Sullivan, a four-year professional who will play within the secondary with Peterson.
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“It’s loopy. It simply reveals his longevity. I bear in mind watching … his faculty tape at LSU and simply remembering the [Dallas Baptist University] period. And now to be in the identical locker room, the identical DB room, , it’s loopy. You realize, it’s wild,” Sullivan mentioned. “Even my associates can’t imagine it. It was like, ‘How’s Pat Pete?’ And I’m like, ‘I’ll let y’all know once I meet him tomorrow.’”