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Some Minnesota Vikings fans imagine linebacker Blake Cashman is the straw that stirs the drink on defense.
Damage Continues to Linger for Keynote Viking
Why? Well, the second he injured his toe, the defense tumbled in games towards the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams, finest convalescing closing week on Sunday Night Football versus the Indianapolis Colts.
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So, other folks like intently monitored Cashman’s damage restoration — nevertheless it could perchance perchance no longer be going swimmingly.
KSTP’s Darren Wolfson commented on Cashman’s set this week while speaking to SKOR North: “It has gone on longer than any individual anticipated. There’s frustration. There’s absolute self perception about that. I’m told ‘week-to-week.’ It’s imaginable he’s reduction this week, nevertheless going reduction to October 7, if I told the Vikings, ‘Blake is now not any longer going to be reduction by Week 9,’ they would prefer talked about, ‘You is seemingly to be nuts.’”
All told, Cashman has missed three games, and Minnesota has a 1-2 document in these contests.
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“There’s toughness there that has carried Blake this far. Belief me, if Blake could perchance perchance very effectively be accessible, he would be accessible,” Wolfson added.
Cashman is tormented by turf toe, a notoriously lingering damage that takes a while to heal entirely. The Vikings are experiencing that actuality in living coloration.
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About a weeks up to now, head coach Kevin O’Connell didn’t sound too insecure about Cashman’s prolonged-time-frame prognosis. “He’ll be roughly day-to-day, week-to-week as he offers with that, O’Connell talked about. “We basically don’t know but, nevertheless don’t think this would be a prolonged-time-frame damage, with IR or the rest fascinated about that,” the younger skipper talked about sooner than Week 7.
“We’ll correct confidently like him work via it and procure reduction on the discipline as quickly as imaginable. Don’t basically learn about his set for this week. We’ll ogle if he can procure some puny work in all the intention via the week and seemingly like some other to head.”
And for standpoint, these O’Connell thoughts had been logged three weeks up to now. Day-to-day has turned emphatically to week-to-week.
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If Cashman can no longer play Sunday on the Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota would again turn to command linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill, who has played decently in 2024. The Vikings even like third-yr defender Brian Asamoah entertaining and willing to contribute, though the Oklahoma alumnus never basically sees defensive motion.
Here is the barely wild odyssey of Minnesota’s defense via eight games:
Vikings Protection,
NFL Ranking,
per EPA/Play:
Week 1-5: 1st
Week 6-8: Twenty eighth
Week 9: 1st
All issues Cashman will turn to Wednesday’s preliminary damage document. A “DNP” would spell more of the same.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow . The purpose out aspects guests, diagnosis, and opinion on all issues connected to the red team, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates reduction to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as intently because the NFL.
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