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Albert Breer

The Vikings and Joshua Dobbs Are Taking It One Step at a Time

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The Vikings and Joshua Dobbs took a big step against the Saints on Sunday. And it was a step that, unless you were on the Minnesota sideline (or had Connor Stalions on retainer the last two weeks), you couldn’t have possibly seen.

“Last week, when we were getting ready for the two-minute drill and different plays throughout the game, we were drawing them up on the sideline to make sure I knew them,” Dobbs told me late Sunday afternoon. “It was me asking questions. Literally, K.J. [Osborn] got hit, went down, and the QB coach, Chris [O’Hara], came on the field and he was drawing up a play they wanted to call, on the field, in an injury timeout, just to make sure I was good for it.

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