Before the Seahawks signed Blair Walsh, Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer received a phone call from his counterpart in Seattle. The Seahawks’ Brian Schneider wanted to know what Walsh had left.
Seattle will get more answers Friday night against the Vikings after Walsh looked like his 2012 All-Pro self with two field goals and six extra points in the Seahawks’ preseason opener last week against the Los Angeles Chargers. Meanwhile, the Vikings are still trying to move on from Walsh with what’s described as a neck-and-neck competition between kickers Kai Forbath and Marshall Koehn.
“I said I think [Walsh] has still got it, he just needed a change of scenery,” Priefer recalled.