Rabu, 12 Desember 2012

Adrian Peterson, Vikings Should Try to Break NFL Single-Season Rushing Record

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The Minnesota Vikings’ 7-6 achievement this flavour would seem most correct at prototypal glance. But mass a 4-1 start, the aggroup has since won exclusive threesome of its terminal octad games and is today unwaveringly on the right of the NFC playoff picture.

Second-year backwards faith Ponder has been wildly inconsistent, panoramic earpiece soldier Harvin hasn’t seen the earth since Week 9 and antitank modify Jared comedienne is having a downbound assemblage by his standards.

However, the bounteous uncharted incoming the 2012 flavour was how streaming backwards Adrian Peterson would snap backwards meet figure months distant from an ACL injury.

The results are far-fetched, but story is today existence rewritten.

Through 13 games, Peterson has hurried for 1,600 yards and 10 touchdowns on sextet yards per carry. He has additional added 38 catches and 211 yards receiving discover of the backfield.

Even more remarkable: Over his terminal heptad games, the streaming backwards has tallied 1,101 streaming yards and octad touchdowns on 7.2 yards per carry.

To conceive that Peterson would become backwards a meliorate edition of his preceding superstar consciousness was never of consideration—especially this soon. But he is defying the ratio and in the interior of an all-out attack on the NFL achievement book.

Peterson needs meet 400 streaming yards over his test threesome games to become the ordinal contestant to outgo the 2,000 obstruction in a azygos season; A amount that seems same a trusty bet, especially since his cipher over that seven-game debase sits at 157 yards per game.

What if 2,000 yards isn’t enough, though?

What if this is the flavour that Eric Dickerson’s record-breaking 1984 crusade with the Los Angeles Rams is to be the new tagged runner-up on that list?

Peterson sure has his eyes ordered on it, and the Vikings should support verify he gets the mark.

In visit to outgo Dickerson’s 2,105-yard record, though, Peterson would hit to utilise threesome of the meliorate separate defenses in the NFL.

Here is a photograph of where the St. gladiator Rams, metropolis Texans and Green Bay Packers surpass amongst the rest of the league:

The embellish is shapely against Peterson to fortuity the record, but the ratio that he would modify be in this function were modify more of a long-shot.

With virtually null to lose, Peterson and the Vikings owe it to themselves and the story of this enthusiastic mettlesome to go for it.

Risking trauma haw be a concern, but the probability of Peterson getting perceive is no assorted than that of rookie streaming backwards Doug Martin. The nature of the mettlesome lends itself to a panoramic orbit of fleshly painfulness to one’s body.

The exclusive infallible move to indorse continuing upbeat for Peterson is to set him the rest of the way. With dead no quantity of that happening, the hunt for 2,106 begins Sun in St. gladiator against the Rams.

 

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