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Vikings' game of survival works once but remains too dangerous

On Sunday in Nashville, the Vikings won their first game that counts this season, without Teddy Bridgewater, 25-16 over the Titans. Afterward, Mike Zimmer was asked how Shaun Hill did — and, by implication, had he done well enough to hold off Sam Bradford for one more week.

Zimmer answered with a firm, definitive … maybe.

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"I thought Shaun did well," Zimmer began, clearly choosing his words carefully. “One of the things I told him going into he ballgame was, ‘You don't have to be anybody else, you just have to be yourself, that will be good enough to win.