Jared Allen Fined, Not Suspended; Cook Out at RT
by Christopher Gates on Nov 19, 2008 1:03 PM CST
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PrintThat's the word from Access Vikings. Allen has been fined $25,000 by the league for his "vicious" hit on Aaron Rodgers, but won't miss any playing time due to a suspension.
Upon hearing the news, Rodgers apparently asked for his binky, a glass of warm milk, and for Mike McCarthy to read him Goodnight, Moon. Again.
Also, in a move that's about a year and a half too late in coming, Ryan Cook is finally being removed from the starting lineup. Artis Hicks, who filled in ably for Bryant McKinnie during his four-game absence, will start this Sunday against Jacksonville. Remember, Cook was selected with the pick that was gained by trading Daunte Culpepper to Miami back in 2006. Man, that deal certainly worked out well for everybody, didn't it?
(And props to Manimal for beating me to the Allen thing. . .stupid having to wait for a break at the day job to update the site.)
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Ha ha, thanks for the props in the post. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Though you did have a bit more info about Ryan Cook that I didn’t have. So we’ll call it a wash.
I kid, I kid.
Agreed about the break from work though; gotta wait them out.
Keep up the good work.
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What?!?
No Ryan Cook?
Man, I am gonna miss hearing “False Start, Offense, Number 62”.
‘And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws’.
I blame him
I actually put a lot of the blame on him for our most recent loss.
The Vikings were knocking on their door, it was 2nd and 2. AD was all fired up and ready to get us close to a first and goal. What happens? “False Start, Offense, Number 62”. Childress decides then to play it safe and we kick a field goal. This was going to be a touchdown, but 62 wasn’t going to let the team do anything like that.
‘And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws’.
Wasn’t Hicks starting in place of Cook last season? I don’t recall him doing very well on the right side either.
No
Hicks opened 2007 as the starter at RG, not RT. He was eventually replaced by Herrera.
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by Christopher Gates on Nov 19, 2008 2:34 PM CST up reply actions
This pleases me.
After last season I said 3 people needed to leave the Vikes for them to get better. Troy Williamson, Dwight Smith, and Ryan Cook. We are now one step closer to that becoming a reality.
I live in Denver and went to the Broncos vs. Vikings game last December and saw a whole group of people wearing #62 Ryan Cook jerseys. I’m assuming they were his family since he’s from ABQ. Well, I’m HOPING they were his family, I don’t why any other group of people would all wear his jersey. It at least made me feel better that he embarassed himself in front of his family with the holding call in the end zone.
I've never been a Cook fan
…but if he can replace Matt Birk at center whenever he retires, I wouldn’t mind that at all. I think Cook would certainly have much less trouble with false starts as a center.
PRAISE JESUS!! OR MOHAMMED OR MOSES OR BUDDAH. . or watever . . thank god Jared Allen did not get suspened. . Hallelujah! LOL!. . lets pray for the Williams please. .
by vikingfromkuwait on Nov 19, 2008 11:56 PM CST reply actions
ihmm
one more thing.. . didn’t ryan cook replace artis hicks last year because hicks was doing the same mistakes that cook is doing this season? so what do we have a ryan cook 2.0 now?
by vikingfromkuwait on Nov 19, 2008 11:58 PM CST reply actions
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