We’re less than 48 hours away from the Minnesota Vikings’ second home game of the season White Danielle Hunter Jersey , as they will host the Buffalo Bills on Sunday afternoon at U.S. Bank Stadium. The Vikings and Bills haven’t played since 2014, and the Bills haven’t come to Minnesota since 2010 when they played in the last game at the Dome before the roof caved in. So, you know, that’s their fault.(Okay, not really.)As is our wont, we got an opportunity to sit down and exchange some questions with the folks from Buffalo Rumblings, SB Nation’s home for everything relating to the Buffalo Bills. I exchanged these questions with Corey Giacovelli, and you can see the answers I had to the questions he sent me over at BR by clicking this link here. Here are the questions that I sent to Corey, along with his responses. Enjoy!1) Last year, the Bills snapped the longest post-season drought in the league, making it back to the playoffs after a 17-year absence. This year. . .well, with all due respect to you guys, they’ve looked bad thus far. How did it drop off so quickly for you guys?2) One of the strangest stories of last season was the Bills’ treatment of quarterback Tyrod Taylor. Taylor appeared to be a relatively solid quarterback, but the Bills seemed reluctant to commit to him, and now he’s in Cleveland. Can you provide any insight as to why that whole thing happened?3) With Taylor officially out of the picture, the Bills initially started with Nathan Peterman at quarterback White Brett Jones Jersey , but quickly turned to first-round pick Josh Allen. In Allen’s first start, what did you see that encouraged you and what did you see that worries you going into Sunday?4) Do you think that Sean McDermott’s job is in any sort of jeopardy, or did the playoff appearance last year generate enough goodwill to help him weather what looks like it could be a rough year in Buffalo?5) Give us one player on each side of the ball that Vikings fans might not immediately know that you think could make a difference for the Bills on Sunday.Thanks again to Corey for taking the time to answer our questions about this week’s game. We’ll have more about Sunday’s contest as we get closer to kickoff. The first sign in Minnesota of Latavius Murray's varied interests was visible even before he signed his contract with the Vikings last year.This season, his responsibilities have reached a new high.That starts at home, where he and his fiance brought home a baby boy named Major last month. The extra burden has extended to Minnesota's backfield, where Murray has started three of the past four games for the injured Dalvin Cook. Last week, Murray rushed for a career-best 155 yards to help the Vikings beat Arizona ."I try not to get caught up in whether I'm the number one or the number two," he said. "I have to be me, and any opportunities I get I've got to do my best."Murray has long applied this wisdom beyond the game, a sixth-year running back ranking among the league leaders in well-rounded lives if the category existed.During the offseason , he made a second humanitarian trip to Haiti with former Oakland teammate Derek Carr. Then he traveled to Germany and Italy as part of a United Service Organizations tour with a handful of other NFL players to meet with overseas troops. Murray's fiance, Shauntay Skanes, is in her 10th year in the Navy.Moving toward a master's degree in business administration through Syracuse, his hometown university in upstate New York, Murray is already a T-shirt entrepreneur of sorts. He used to be more personally involved with the merchandising, before outsourcing the work to avoid being too consumed by it.While his agent negotiated a deal with the Vikings late into the March night in 2017 Youth Linval Joseph Jersey , Murray passed the time on his first visit to the team's facility with some online work toward his MBA. He's about halfway done, with a goal of completion for 2019 after he and Skanes are married. That's one way he has begun to prepare himself at age 28 for his post-football years."I'm just hoping that I'm doing something maybe bigger than what I'm doing right now," Murray said. "That's more than half of my life I'll have when I'm done playing the game, and to try and limit it to just this right now would be dumb of me."Returning to Minnesota this season required a pay cut to help the team squeeze several big-ticket contract extensions under the salary cap, but the Vikings have been getting a bargain for the second straight year.In 2017, Murray took over when Cook tore his ACL. This season, Cook has been bothered by a hamstring injury that again kept him from practicing on Thursday. When Murray signed with the Vikings, he was viewed as the replacement for Adrian Peterson. Then the Vikings made Cook their top draft pick and, thus, primary halfback. Murray could have been stung by the arrival of a hotshot rookie, but that wasn't the case."He took me in as a little brother, and that's what I respect most about him," Cook said. "Most guys could just brush that off, but I highly respect Latavius for that. To this day, the bond has just got stronger."Fondly remembering the way he was treated by his elders with the Raiders, Murray simply made a point to pay that support forward."That was the kind of vets I had http://www.authenticsminnesotavikings.com/cheap-mike-remmers-jersey , guys who weren't going to act like they were too good or too old or too big to try and teach me the game, hang out with me, have fun and do those kinds of things."Murray has a budding family to play for now, too, but his memory of childhood friend Jonathan Diaz has always been painfully close. Diaz was shot to death in Syracuse in 2016, since when Murray's motivation to succeed on the field has started with him.Diaz would have been proud of how Murray plowed through the Cardinals last Sunday, stiff-arming a safety on his way to a 21-yard touchdown run that helped the Vikings set the tone for an important victory."We love blocking for him," left guard Tom Compton said. "He gives you a lot of options. If you're a little shaky on anything, he'll definitely help you out and run a guy over for you."With a forward lean to his running style that leads to plenty of yards after contact, Murray is a perfect complement to Cook and his more elusive skillset."He's a great person. He's very diligent about his work. He practices hard, but he's got good feet and acceleration," coach Mike Zimmer said, adding: "When he gets a chance, very seldom is this guy going backward when he gets hit. A lot of those things I really like."
