Fantasy Football 2015: San Francisco 49ers Week 1 start/ sit

After all of that, when the lights on Monday night it will just be about football, and Peterson’s aspirations are as high as ever for this Vikings team. If this revamped unit succeeds, Mangini will have re-established his reputation as a defensive maestro, perhaps resurrecting the “Mangenius” moniker, if you will.

The result, he said, was that “you end up starting the season as ignorant about new players, new formations and new plays as you were the first day of training camp”.

Fresh is always best in this game, but with the long layoff at his age there’s also no guarantee that Peterson will be able to pick right up where he left off as the league’s premier running back. He’s lost his mojo and his mentor.

Later, Peterson would call it the worst game of his career. Bridgewater started 12 games last season.

“I don’t think it could be a better time”, Wallace said.

“It’s really about my family, man”, said Bowman, father to three children. “He’s one of those guys that just has it. I’m just happy he’s on my team and he’s playing behind me”.

“Us being young, we have a lot to prove”.

So he needs to get going again.

“But we all know he can play and that’s not a question at all”. Then came last month’s blow, with pass-rusher extraordinaire Aldon Smith getting released after his fifth arrest since 2012.

But Bowman’s health, while solid now, must be monitored. “To go in there and have time off and do the things he did coming back from an injury, we’re kind of hoping Adrian does the same thing when he comes back”.

Peterson certainly can relate.

According to ESPN Stats & Information, Peterson gained 2,505 of his 3,363 yards in 2012 and 2013 on runs that went up the middle or to the right side of the line.

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, chomping on chewing gum while relaxing on a couch in a room inside the team facility, Peterson casually yet confidently predicted a big year. After the final preseason game against the Chargers last week – in which starters mostly made just token appearances, if any at all – Tomsula said the practices before and after that game were far more important than the exhibition against San Diego. Bowman is expecting the same, hard runner who’ll try “for every single yard that is out there”.

One aspect that will be crucial for the Vikings is containment.

Following an 8-8 finish, head coach Jim Harbaugh left for Michigan after reaching the NFC Championship game in his first three seasons in charge and was replaced by defensive line coach Jim Tomsula.

The 7:20 p.m. kickoff allows Bowman plenty of time to stretch his knee, a task he’s said can take up to two hours instead of virtually no time before the injury.

Below, you’ll find some predictions I’ve piled together for Monday night’s game. “Knowing my family is watching me, I want to go out there and give them a show”.

‘”There’s not too many guys that come into the league that have that talent, especially at the quarterback position”, he added.

Previous year was a nightmare season for Kaepernick where the team would barely beat a few opponents and the offense took a step backwards. I won’t recall the drama that plagued in 2014 out of respect, but having Peterson back for the Vikings will benefit Teddy Bridgewater and the Vikings offense.