With pick #175, MINN selects - Blair Walsh [K] UGA

[Purple-Pride07]

[Klomp]

“@wobby: Vikings K @BlairWalsh3 already has 15 touchbacks this season. #Vikings had 19 all of last year.”
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2013 Adopt-a-Viking: FB Jerome Felton -

[vike daddy]

[PurpleMugen]

You know what's going to be fun to watch? Blair Walsh's first trip to Lambeau.

The conditions are very often tricky there, and the atmosphere is definitely one that challenges rookies and younger players. I think he'll be up to the challenge.
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Peppers90 on the sig.

[vikingsrule]

[Klomp]

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[milanb]

I'm a big fan of Formula 1 racing and you can always tell who the really good drivers are just by the look in their eyes prior to the start of the race.

Walsh has that same look, even on sidelines, and that's really the one thing that impresses me about him. He may miss FGs here and there, but it won't be due to a lack of focus or mental toughness.
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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. — Ecclesiastes 9:11

But that’s the way to bet. — Jimmy The Greek

[GoneWithTheWind]

Kid's money.

[SteelKing728]

If I didn't already have a good kicker, I'd say Blair Walsh would be a solid pickup.

Again, this is a road game, so we'll see how he does.
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Thanks Jamison on that avi.

2013 Adopt a Minnesota Viking - Jared Allen - DE - #69

[vike daddy]

a good article on how rookie kickers enter the league more prepared now and have early success, negating the traditional thinking that a veteran kicker might be safer to have on your roster:



When the Vikings decided they needed a young kicker pronto, special teams coordinator Mike Priefer asked the team's personnel department to assemble a spreadsheet on all the rookies who were their team's primary kicker from 2007 to 2011. The numbers confirmed Priefer's gut instinct. NFL coaches no longer needed to fear the rookie kicker.

The seven kickers on that spreadsheet were a combined 161-for-188 on field-goal attempts their rookie season. That's a significantly high percentage (85.6) for seven young legs that can boom kickoffs farther and higher than aging veterans who typically cling to roster spots long after they've lost their kickoff legs.

Priefer: "Nowadays, for whatever reason, it's who the rookie is that matters, not the fact he's a rookie. So many more of them are prepared to handle it. So you look for the right personality, the right work ethic."

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/172393811.html?refer=y
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[twslhs20]

Blair Walsh calls into fantasy football podcast yesterday. Hes an avid player I guess. Pretty down to earth guy.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=8452532
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Joe_is_the_best ^^
Shelby Miller: 5-3 ERA: 1.74 IP: 57.0 H:38 BB: 15 SO: 62 WHIP: 0.93 WAR: 1.6 LOB%: 82.7 FIP: 2.44

[vike daddy]

Priefer: “I was disappointed for him, disappointed for us [when he missed a kick in Detroit.] And he knows that. He’s a smart guy. He doesn’t have to be told when he does something wrong. We watched it on tape together on Monday morning. He knew what he did wrong.”

Priefer said Walsh got a little too close to the ball on the miss: “Probably lunged into it a little bit and then wrapped his foot around it. He’ll do that every now and then in practice. So we’ll work in here on that.”

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/blogs/172702391.html
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[vike daddy]

the kid deserves his love today too.

what he'd have, three FG's and several booming, booming kickoffs to the back of the endzone?


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