MINNEAPOLIS -- Deciding whether Sam Bradford will start at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday appears to depend on how quickly he can run the team's offense at a workable level.
There's not much mystery about whether the Vikings want to put Bradford on the field soon. As Tennessee Titans coach Mike Mularkey said Wednesday, like a man calling the bluff of a card player across the table, "They wouldn't give up a [No.] 1 and a [No.] 4 [draft pick] to have him sit very long." But what the Vikings want to do and what they can manage in the days before their season opener at Tennessee are different things.