The Minnesota Vikings signed kicker Greg Joseph on Tuesday, a potential corrective measure to remedy the team’s 2020 kicking maladies.
Field-goal and extra-point kicking have been a stain on nearly the totality of the Mike Zimmer era. Zimmer’s Vikings always pretend to have the longstanding kicking troubles fixed – for a brief period – before the pain returns.
This state of affairs for Zimmer began in the 2015 playoffs when kicker Blair Walsh missed a chip-shot field that should have propelled the team to the Divisional Round of the NFC Playoffs. Had history played out the same thereafter, Zimmer would have been accountable for three trips to the Divisional Round of the playoffs.