Monday Morning Digest: Lovable Patriots, Bradford’s Moxie and Injuries Galore

September 19, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Everything was going right for the Vikings on Sunday night. Then something went very, very wrong. 
A potentially devastating knee injury to Adrian Peterson overshadowed a 17-14 victory over the Packers and quarterback Sam Bradford's encouraging Vikings debut. The sight of Peterson needing help to hobble to the locker room and walking on crutches during postgame interviews marked a downbeat ending to a Sunday of upsets, shootouts, comebacks and gutsy efforts by third-string quarterbacks.
Digest is here to catch you up on as much of it as possible, including:
A sloppy, rainy Bengals-Steelers game, which is better than a sloppy, rainy Bengals-Steelers medieval poleax battle. Probably. Bradford's gutsy effort and the Vikings' prospects without Peterson (they aren't good). The Patriots' sudden rebranding as the NFL's plucky, lovable overachievers. A Giants free-agent acquisition paying actual dividends. The Rams winning the only way they know how: ugly, against the Seaha...

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