Following the Vikings 30-24 defeat of the Cardinals yesterday, Peter King highlighted a couple of Vikings in his Monday Morning Quarterbackcolumn.
King tabbed punter Jeff Locke and kick returner Cordarrelle Patterson as his special teams players of the week. He wrote the following of Patterson after he returned a kick 104 yards for a touchdown in Sunday’s game:
I do not believe as a rule it’s smart to take kicks out of the end zone in this new world of getting the ball at the 25-yard line on touchbacks.