Vikings News And Links For August 13

The second pre-season game is almost here on Saturday, against the Cardinals. Let's see how things re progressing.

We took another look at Teddy Bridgewater's performance against the Raiders.

ESPN tells us something we knew, because we had to watch it all of last season: The defense was pretty terrible.

Here's an interesting exercise: assembling rosters for teams based on the proximity of where the home team plays.

From elsewhere around the Web:

Teddy wasn't sharp in practice.

Matt Cassel is confident that he'll be the top QB when it's all said and done.

Master Tesfatsion takes on four topics submitted by Vikings fans.

Jasper Brinkley thinks a second stint as a Viking will result in a starting gig.

If the Vikings play as team and aren't selfish, Greg Jennings thinks they'll do well. He's still open.

Random highlight? How about Frerotte to Berrian for 99 and a score:

Rules of the open thread remain the same as always: No politics, no religion, no troll feeding, use the spoiler tags for the bad language, and keep the GIF's at a PG level. Beer light---ON, bar---OPEN.

Have at it.  Sorry for the delay this morning.