Adrian Peterson to the NFL-I Aint Dead Yet

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METAIRIE, La. — It was late April, time for Adrian Peterson to make a decision about his future.

He was back home in Houston after a free-agent visit to New Orleans. He was praying for a sign. Saints? Patriots? Seahawks? Another team? Then one day he was looking for a duffel bag in his home office. Things were out of place because the house was being cleaned, and he couldn't find the bag. So instead he grabbed a black leather bag he'd had for years. It had a piece of tape on it. Peterson had forgotten why it was there. He tore off the tape.


And there was his sign.

The logo of the New Orleans Saints.
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Payton also asked some questions. He wanted to know Peterson's favorite runs. Peterson's answer? Power and Duo. These have not been staples of the Saints' running game in the past. But that might be changing, and luckily the team has a fullback in John Kuhn who can help make it work.

"There are certain runs that he values over others," Payton says. "Well then I value them, too."

Kuhn says the best thing about Payton is he looks to create matchups based on his personnel.
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"I was attracted to playing with Brees, a guy who is good at distributing the ball to different players," Peterson says. "I know in this system, I'll get some opportunities to catch the ball in space. Drew Brees, he'll get the ball to me."
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On his free-agent visit, Peterson also met with Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and a few other front-office men. They sat in a private area in Emeril's, and the conversation wandered—Peterson's love for the game, why the Saints were a potential fit, Peterson's appreciation for the French Quarter and local cuisine, and his experience with the Vikings.


Loomis asked about what kind of role Peterson hoped for. Peterson said he wanted to contribute to helping the team win, whatever way that was. "It was a good answer," Loomis says.

Peterson never brought up number of carries. "I don't need all those carries to be my best," Peterson says. "I don't think I became a great player by having to have 20 or 30 carries to get 200 yards. If they feed it to me, hey, I'm going to eat. Whenever I get opportunities, I'll take advantage of them."
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On his first day in the Saints' weight room, Peterson approached a group of players doing box jumps.

"We were feeling pretty good about ourselves because we were jumping at a pretty good height," Kuhn says.

Peterson eyed the box, which was 42 inches high. He lined up to jump. And instead of jumping with two legs, as his teammates had, he nailed the jump with just his left leg. And then he did it with his right—the one that was surgically repaired last season.

His teammates were stunned. "That was kind of the, 'Hey, I'm here,' moment," Kuhn says.

There had been a similar moment a couple of weeks earlier at O Athletik, the Houston gym that Peterson owns. His trainer, James "Coop" Cooper, tested Peterson in a superset of four exercises. First, bench pressing 300 pounds. Peterson nailed 12 reps. Then pullups. Peterson hit 20. Next was bench pressing 225 pounds. Peterson made it to 20 presses. Last was squatting 425 pounds. Peterson did it eight times. All with no rest between sets.
Peterson's body fat is 6 percent after some dietary changes, and his weight is holding steady where he wants it: between 215 and 219. Even in a locker room full of professional athletes, he is still physically impressive.
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"I try to rewrite history and give people a new perspective," he says. "I don't allow the world to box me in. I look at it as an opportunity to show what God has given me."
"Yes, the doubt motivates me," Peterson says. "I'd be lying to say it doesn't. You want to do things people say you can't do."

That black duffel bag with the Saints logo? Turns out Clint Ingram had been given the bag on a free-agent visit to the Saints, and he left it with Peterson when he was staying with him in Houston. At some point, Peterson needed to use the duffel but didn't want to be seen with a Saints bag, so he covered up the logo and never gave it another thought.

"I didn't know it," Peterson says, "but I had been riding with the Saints for a long time."
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"It's ironic I'm here playing for the Saints with all the things I've been through the past five years of life," Peterson says. "I'm not perfect by any means, but I always had faith in God. They say a saint is just a sinner who got back up. I always got back up, and now I'm here."
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This year's spray tan Murray...

Everybody has written him off because of age not accounting for the fact dude was basically repeatedly running into a brickwall last season...how the fukk you expect him not to get hurt?

Im hoping people keep sleeping...Need him to fall to the 4th round in fantasy...
 
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All day is gonna dsstory the league, again.

Vikings and the NFL need to go fukk themselves.
for the whole underpay Walter protocol brought to the dance by those McCaskey and halas hall carnies.

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Art Barr said:
All day is gonna dsstory the league, again.

Vikings and the NFL need to go fukk themselves.
for the whole underpay Walter protocol brought to the dance by those McCaskey and halas hall carnies.

Art Barr
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Lol why do the Vikings need to go fukk themselves? They paid breh well over 200 Million dollars throughout his career, Paid him even after tearing his knee, paid him while he sat out a season for spanking his son's testicles with a tree branch... Vikings did nothing wrong to All Day :heh:
 
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The Fukin Prophecy said:
This year's spray tan Murray...

Everybody has written him off because of age not accounting for the fact dude was basically repeatedly running into a brickwall last season...how the fukk you expect him not to get hurt?

Im hoping people keep sleeping...Need him to fall to the 4th round in fantasy...
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Yup. No way a RBs decline is that steep. He had damn near 1500 yds and 11 TDs the year before but people said hes washed :skip:

EDIT: Purple jesus is now a saint. Maybe there is some truth to that decline:patrice:
 
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