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EAGAN, Minn. — Dalvin Prepare dinner racked up 148 all-goal yards and a correct ankle injuries that was classified as a “very little sprain” by Vikings mentor Mike Zimmer late in Minnesota’s 34-33 reduction to the Arizona Cardinals.
Yet despite Cook’s personal injury, the Vikings still approach to use him as they commonly would when they host the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in their to start with match at U.S. Financial institution Stadium in 636 days.
“You know, at this phase, it is time to get some wins,” Zimmer said. “Dalvin’s a difficult guy. If he are unable to engage in, there is certainly a cause why he is not enjoying. But he would make us go, so we are likely to go on to perform him.”
Prepare dinner was injured with 9:52 remaining in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s reduction when he was tackled very low by Cardinals defensive conclude J.J. Watt. The working again sported an Ace bandage on his correct ankle during media availability Wednesday and was envisioned to get “a tiny little bit” of function in at follow.
“It was a person of them online games,” Prepare dinner claimed. “Actual physical game, realized what we have been receiving ourselves into.
“I know I perform managing back again, I’m going to get banged up. But the recovery is critical. I’m in the instruction space a large amount with the conditioning coach, just obtaining to it, making an attempt to get my physique back again up.”
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Prepare dinner was momentarily replaced by backup operating again Alexander Mattison but arrived back again in for the Vikings’ remaining two series. His fourth-quarter personal injury was the 2nd he sustained in Week 2, acquiring been experience down on the grass at Condition Farm Stadium for many minutes in the next quarter with a stinger, the initial he stated he has dealt with.
“I was laying like that since it was diverse for me because I did not know irrespective of whether I should get up, I don’t know the place it was coming from,” Cook explained. “It was just a little something unique for me that I hardly ever felt, so I was just taking safeguards and had the trainers acquire treatment of what they are likely to acquire treatment of.”
Cook ranks fourth in hurrying (192 yards), carries (42) and touches (25) among the all managing backs by two weeks and scored his first landing at Cincinnati in 7 days 1. The Pro Bowler is coming off a period when he attained a job-higher 356 touches in 14 online games performed.
Minnesota is off to an -2 begin for a 2nd straight time with back again-to-back again losses on the street at Cincinnati and Arizona. The Vikings start a extend of a few straight house video games this weekend with Seattle, Cleveland and Detroit coming to town Months 3-5.
“We go back again and search at the two games that we dropped and evaluate them to past calendar year, if you want to do that, due to the fact it is really distinct,” Prepare dinner claimed. “You see the grit in the crew, and you see it is really various. It can be distinct when you place them hand to hand. We didn’t get the commence we needed to, but I feel issues come about for a purpose. Which is how I often seem at, search at daily life. Things happen for a explanation. We’re property for a few straight video games. We could go on a tear for a few straight weeks.
“Items occur for a cause just to see wherever you’re at mentally, and stuff like that. I consider mentally we’re in a good place. We know the team that we can be. We know the workforce that we aiming to be. We just obtained to go get it accomplished and end the offer that we didn’t these very last, past two months.”
