Another scorcher—my second consecutive triple-digit temperature day. And here come the takeaways from Vikings camp …
1. How good Minnesota’s secondary winds up remains to be seen—but it will certainly be more flexible than it was a year ago. The Vikings really emphasized position flexibility with new coordinator Brian Flores coming in, and it’s shown through the offseason in how players such as Byron Murphy (a corner capable of playing inside and outside) and Josh Metellus (a safety who can come down and play linebacker) have ascended. Flores’s defense, at its best, is similar in philosophy to Kevin O’Connell’s offense, in its basis in the “illusion of complexity,” a principle founded on making it easy for players to run, while looking complicated to the opponent.
