Comments on: Sidney Rice has had two offseason shoulder surgeries

By: jusjamn

jusjamn — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:37:22 +0000

Typical. Sounds like a bunch whiney Vikes fans. Rice will bust outnext year and then the real whining will begin!

By: ninefingers9

ninefingers9 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:30:56 +0000

dobberdubinsky…I’ll completely agree about Fazier! Sheesh! Vikes are set back for another 3 years…minimum!

By: dobberdubinsky

dobberdubinsky — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:23:31 +0000

Ninefingers9 says:

Sure am glad the Vikes dumped this dead weight. One of the only good decisions they have made in the last couple years…right behind dumping Childress!

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Too bad they followed that up by hiring Leslie Frazier.

By: squared80

squared80 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:06:07 +0000

Talented, but everybody and their 3rd cousin knew to avoid giving an extremely injury prone receiver that much gauranteed money.

Everyone except the Seahawks, of course. Nothing surprising about that.

By: purpleguy

purpleguy — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:55:44 +0000

Hey, that’s $9M per surgery. Maybe he’ll have a couple more to lower the proportionate valuation. And with two off-season shoulder surgeries limiting off-season strength and conditioning, seriously, how ready is the guy gonna be for the regular season?

By: pencilmonkeymagic

pencilmonkeymagic — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:35:40 +0000

When he *was* healthy, defenses backed right off, allowing Bakdwin in underneath. Happy to keep Rice on the books for that alone.

By: dukemarc

dukemarc — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:01:25 +0000

Is it safe to say Rice and Javon Walker have pretty similar career track at this point?

By: snoqualmieterry

snoqualmieterry — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:29:52 +0000

I hope he will stay healthy. We need to get a good signal caller to throw to him. Tavares rarely throws in the middle of the field. He likes to throw to the sideline. I like his toughness and scrambling. We need to utilize Zach Miller and Carlson and re sign Skittle man to a fair contract with mostly incentives.

By: thankheavenfornumberseven

thankheavenfornumberseven — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:03:53 +0000

I’m so glad the Vikings didn’t give him $18M guaranteed last year. He’s great when he’s healthy, but he’s never healthy.

By: purplecrowe

purplecrowe — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:50:34 +0000

@wtfru2

Fun to watch? He had one good season and should be sending ol’ #4 about half of his rich free-agent deal. Rice has always been quite over rated, plus always injured, glad the Queens didn’t bring him back at his asking price…

By: ninefingers9

ninefingers9 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:41:22 +0000

Sure am glad the Vikes dumped this dead weight. One of the only good decisions they have made in the last couple years…right behind dumping Childress!

By: lolb23

lolb23 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:22:04 +0000

1 hit/season wonder

By: dgoblue

dgoblue — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:19:18 +0000

I’m pretty sure I read about Rice’s 2 shoulder surgeries on RotoW a month ago. I guess maybe this is new in that the team is officially acknowledging them…

By: briggsweatbird

briggsweatbird — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:16:41 +0000

Talk about a guy who made out more than anyone because of Favre’s one good year in Minny. Wait, that was Chilly (five year extension).

Favre has helped a lot of people get rich in this game (Javon Walker and Antonio Freeman, for example).

By: cannonballdookie

cannonballdookie — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:15:22 +0000

I guess he’s lucky that he doesn’t play baseball…

By: seattlerogueburner

seattlerogueburner — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:05:30 +0000

Hopefully Doug Baldwin will see more catches this year. That guy is our diamond in the rough!

By: vikingsinla

vikingsinla — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:56:05 +0000

The Greg Oden of the NFL.

By: chillyp

chillyp — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:49:05 +0000

Seahawks need to do some surgery on his contract to repair the overextended contract they gave him, sewing it into a performance ‘actual playing time’ contract. Right now Sydney is enjoy his Dire Straits.

By: getit28

getit28 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:47:14 +0000

I hope he can last and be productive for the duration of his contract, however at some point Seattle may need to cut their losses with him.

By: mattolikesthevikes

mattolikesthevikes — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:44:33 +0000

The Vikes dodged a bullet.

By: jwesty

jwesty — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:42:49 +0000

This is why Minnesota let him go……Too much money up front for a guy who has injury issues every single season….sad but true.

By: ammarradhi

ammarradhi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:30:25 +0000

I am so glad the Vikes let this delicate flower go

By: wtfru2

wtfru2 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:28:20 +0000

Too bad he’s one of those injury prone players, because he is fun to watch…..

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:24:39 +0000

Surprise!

By: FinFan68

FinFan68 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:21:16 +0000

At least he didn’t wait until training camp this time. That’s an improvement although he is one of the biggest underachievers in football.

By: skinsdag

skinsdag — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:20:38 +0000

So glad the Redskins did not pick him up via Free Agency last year….