The Minnesota Vikings coaches are down in Mobile, ABABAMA this week to coach NFL Draft prospects at the Senior Bowl. God help all these prospective players, because they sure as **** aren't learning anything this week. Despite this, the presence of Leslie Frazier and company at the Senior Bowl has provided some unique insight into the NFL Draft process. ESPN1500 has really taken advantage of this opportunity and spent a long time Tuesday interviewing Vikings GM Rick Spielman on the entire drafting task. They "put out" an interesting article that covered a lot of the steps, and provided some hilarious insights, as you can see in the title of this post. Also, Chris Cook clearly loves drugs. So alludes Rick Spielman (in the non-bolded text):
Do you check social media?
Oh yeah. We have our guys pull up all their facebooks, Twitter accounts, and there was a kid last year that his Facebook -- you've got to be kidding me. He put this on Facebook? And he was a...
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Leslie Frazier,
Christian Ponder
TEAMS: Minnesota Vikings, Florida State Seminoles
TEAMS: Minnesota Vikings, Florida State Seminoles
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