Mike Evans News - MinnesotaSportsFan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/tag/mike-evans/ Minnesota sports, but different Sun, 13 Dec 2020 03:21:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,height=32,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-cropped-MSF-favicon-1.jpg Mike Evans News - MinnesotaSportsFan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/tag/mike-evans/ 32 32 Will Cam Dantzler Shadow Mike Evans on Sunday? https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-vikings/will-cam-dantzler-shadow-mike-evans-on-sunday/ https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-vikings/will-cam-dantzler-shadow-mike-evans-on-sunday/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 03:19:07 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=32031

The Minnesota Vikings are rostering last week’s best defensive player, according to Pro Football Reference. In fact, Cameron Dantzler has been this team’s best cornerback for the last couple of weeks.

Mike Zimmer wanted Dantzler in the offseason’s draft, not only because of his promising talent, but also because of his ideal size as an outside CB in Zim’s defense. He’s 6’2″ and listed at 188 lbs on the Vikings’ website.

That makes him the perfect size to cover some of the taller deep threat wide receivers that exist around the NFC. You have Davante Adams in the North but there’s also guys like DeAndre Hopkins now in Arizona and 6’5″ Mike Evans in Tampa.

Dantzler vs Evans

I’ve been thinking about this all week. I really think it’s more likely that Mike Evans gets shadow treatment from Cam Dantzler, than not.

Evans is strictly an outside guy and Cam is strictly an outside CB. Dantzler also has 3 inches on the next tallest cornerback, who isn’t used only for emergencies.

If I’m Mike Zimmer, I also want to see how big my stud rookie CB’s balls are. You read that right. We all know how much Zim likes big balls. Let’s find out how good Cam really is. Let’s see if he can play #1 CB for a game.

Cameron Dantzler matching up on Evans slots Gladney on Brown or Godwin on all occasions, too. Those matchups also make a ton of sense.

No matter what, the Minnesota Vikings secondary is going to be tested by the abundance of talent in the Bucs receiving core. Throw Gronk in too… and I really struggle to figure out why Tom Brady isn’t playing better.

A lot of Bucs Twitter hates him though, that’s for sure.

Eric Strack | Minnesota Sports Fan

]]> https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-vikings/will-cam-dantzler-shadow-mike-evans-on-sunday/feed/ 0 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:21:58 +0000 Minnesota Vikings Mike Evans is Delusional: “Rhodes Were Open for Me. Film Don’t Lie” https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/uncategorized/mike-evans-delusional-rhodes-open-film-dont-lie/ https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/uncategorized/mike-evans-delusional-rhodes-open-film-dont-lie/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2017 23:50:57 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=2866 So, last night, the NFL put up a cool graphic of Xavier Rhodes on his shut-down performances in the early part of the NFL season. No big deal right? The guy has been phenomenal.

Well, there I was this morning. I got up a little earlier, which happens about 50% of the time these days. I was drinking a cup of coffee and reading the morning papers on my laptop. My daughter was eating breakfast when I got a notification from Bleacher Report on my phone. Here is what it led me to:

Now, I watched the entire game, watched all sorts of All-22 (and non-all-22) video breakdown, and wrote a recap with more video than any other recap on the internet. Mike Evans was right about one thing. The film doesn’t lie. But I think the Rhodes were much more closed than they were open.

So, being the curious human I am, I thought I would show him the film I saw and see which clip he thought the Rhodes were “open” on..

As you can see by the action on these tweets, I had a lot of people who were seeing the same thing I was. Mike Evans got blanketed by Rhodes all game. Rhodes is one of the top corners in the league and it is time everyone, including receivers like Mike Evans, recognize that.

The Vikings are up against Detroit this weekend and I don’t know if they will bother having Rhodes shadow anyone. Especially when their top guy is Golden Tate who plays a lot out of the slot and isn’t necessarily a “top receiver”.

I wouldn’t play Golden Tate in fantasy football this week, either way..

Eric Strack
Minnesota Sports Fan @RealMNSportsFan

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