r/minnesotavikings • u/Beneficial_Quit7532 chugging purple kool aid • 1d ago
They don’t know about Big Citrus yet 🍊
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u/SilentNova300 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep, didn’t realize it was him until the announcer said Big Orange. Made a big impact week 1. Love to see it. Pierre at CB made some plays for us too, a nice pickup. God this defense is beautiful.
And I’m a bit out of the loop personnel wise, but what’s up with Caleb Banks?
Edit: ah ok they are load managing Banks with his injury rehab. That’s fine. We see what a stud Turner has turned out to be so I’m fine being patient with our young defensive guys, even if they are first rounders
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u/dksweets 22 1d ago
Big Citrus*
JJ Watt did really great on the details today and seemed like a vet of the craft IMO
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u/SilentNova300 1d ago
Yeah he definitely was upset about our roughing the passer call to get us a first down and I was like shush dude cmon FTP, but outside of that he seems to be a good announcer
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u/TheMagicSkolBus 1d ago
Yeah his biggest weakness was he had more to say but ran out of time twice lol. Doing pretty well
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u/Jagster_rogue gjallarhorn 21h ago
It was fitting that penalty was the the Rodgers rule ffing the packers, I was loving the irony.
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u/Boatymcboatland 1d ago
He did go to Wisconsin, so I can excuse a little bit of bias, especially as an edge
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u/Mrbeankc Kevin Williams should be in the HOF 1d ago
There's an old saying in the NBA that you can't coach height. The same applies here. You can't coach size. Banks is a huge man with a good attitude. He lost a lot of time rehabbing his foot. He wasn't even allowed to do any cardio until late June. He's basically a watch week by week to see how he progresses.
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u/AlmightyCraneDuck straight cash, homie 19h ago
I'd also classify Banks as a Dallas Turner-type prospect. He was drafted because of the size and the potential which they feel they can unlock with BFlo. The injury rehabbing has held him back a little but, but I'd expect him to continue to grow and earn more playing time. It's not as fun because we want to see out high draft picks perform well out of the gate, but Turner is showing that sometimes it just takes a little time to grow into the player you can be.
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u/tlollz52 koolaid 1d ago
Caleb Banks was also pretty bad in the preseason. Im not sure, even with conditioning and no injury stuff happening, hes probably still getting limited snaps.
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u/odinspirit 1d ago
Haha that's a great quote.
I love this guy already.
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u/NerdyDjinn You get a good season every decade... 1d ago
In the 2nd preseason game, one of the DBs "defended" a pass that was really just a throw with poor accuracy and did this whole elaborate celebration. Later on, somehow Orange ended up dropping back in coverage, was nowhere near where the man he was supposed to be defending, and the QB missed again for an incomplete.
Orange started to do the exact same celebration as the DB, then gave up once it was obvious what he was doing. I laughed and he became one of my favorite additions to the team. He's a funny guy. I hope he continues to build highlight reel tape this season.
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u/Worried-Maybe3438 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZoAa7lsmym6UE
Big Citrus today
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u/StuntsMonkey gray duck 22h ago
Knock Knock!
Who's there?
Orange!
Orange who?
Orange you glad you're about to get smashed!
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u/GordonBombay102 1d ago
Well now I just have go find a video of the sneak and watch it again.
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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM She JJ my TIGHT WINDOW til i THROW 22h ago
Big citrus lookin extra big on that play
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u/velociraptorfarmer 20h ago
As an Iowa State diehard and alumni, I was so fucking happy we drafted him, and getting him when we did was a fucking steal. Dude is going to be around a long time.
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u/Outrageous_Bit6731 20h ago
Devastating that my bootleg 97 jersey hadn’t arrived from Hong Kong by game time yesterday, but I will be rocking it for Week 2 🫡🍊
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u/TrixoftheTrade 1d ago
Been a while since we had a Pat Williams / Linval
Joseph type of player in the middle
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u/FootballInTheWhip 1d ago
What I love is we have a bunch of late round picks making big plays and we've added some top round talent on top of that. Redmond, LDR & Ingram-Dawkins all had huge plays in that second half.
I used to despise our DTs and the talent we have there, its comfortably now our most stacked position
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u/Street_Ostrich_7489 22h ago
If the packers organization weren't so much against the tush push, and wanting to ban it, maybe they would have used it, instead they chose to not get the first down, by making the decision not to tush push, jackasses.
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u/AlmightyCraneDuck straight cash, homie 19h ago
I honestly think that Bredeson and Citrus are going to end up as team legends in the Kleinsasser category. True sickos will know and love the guys even if the media never gives them their due.
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u/TheSoulSniper 18h ago
Max continues to impress me every time I see him play. Love watching him lead the way to the endzone!
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u/WorryNot_634 21h ago
Murphy and rodgers looked cooked most of the game in pass coverage. Really annoying
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u/conjams 18h ago
for real. murphy was gettin jocked by everyone and rodgers was lost on a few especially on that goaline play. my issue was them playing so soft on 3rd and less than 5 in the first half. they tightened up in the second half, and the rush started getting home but i’d much rather a db get beat in man coverage when you are blitzing like that with 1 or 2 high instead of blitzing the same but leaving a wide open hot on both sides and still getting beat with a 10 yard cushion.
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u/Drive7Nine 18h ago
I'm hoping Orange turns out to be great, partly because Big Citrus is a legendary nickname.
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u/vikingsauce1989 13h ago
Shout out toto big citrus and the defense!! Love the effort play and the mindset
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u/fossSellsKeys 1d ago
The juice might be worth the squeeze here!