Nick Easton realizes he’s in the best possible situation as a member of the New Orleans Saints.

In his first season as quarterback with the Minnesota Vikings, Kirk Cousins has managed to find instant chemistry with wide receivers Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs.

On Sunday night, coach Matt Nagy dialed it up: a throw from quarterback Mitchell Trubisky to wide receiver Anthony Miller.

Mike Zimmer’s coaching roots are in defense, but he doesn’t believe the NFL will sustain its high-scoring ways this season.

When a defense generates 10 sacks in a game, it’s fair to assume that it saw something it could exploit in the opponent’s pass protection. But, for the Vikings’ defense vs. the Lions, that wasn’t completely true.

The circumstances might have been drastically different, with last January’s clash between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings a divisional-round playoff game at U.S. Bank Stadium and Sunday night’s rematch on the same field for the eighth game of the regular season. Still, Saints players who were part of the postseason matchup had vivid memories — more like nightmares — about how it ended: with the Vikings connecting on a 61-yard, last-ditch touchdown pass on the game’s final play to win, 29-24.

Sam Bradford feels like he’s in a different world, let alone a different year. The whirlwind that was the trade that saw him go from the Philadelphia Eagles to the Minnesota Vikings a little more than a week before the start of the 2016 season is a memory he is happy to put behind him.

Adrian Peterson feels young, Mike Zimmer is high on Teddy Bridgewater and the Vikings are feeling good heading into the new season.

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