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Sam Shields expects to be tested if the Los Angeles Rams do not have their two starting cornerbacks available against Minnesota on Thursday night."That's part of the game. Backups http://www.authenticsminnesotavikings.com/cheap-sheldon-richardson-jersey , hey, you gots to go at 'em," Shields said Tuesday night.With Aqib Talib set to undergo surgery and the availability of Marcus Peters uncertain, Shields, Troy Hill and Nickell Robey-Coleman are preparing for an expected challenge from Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins.The three cornerbacks looked to be up to the task based on how they performed in the Rams' 35-23 win over the Chargers on Sunday after Peters and Talib were hurt. It wasn't a surprise considering the experience of Shields, Hill and Robey-Coleman.Robey-Coleman has played 65 percent of the defensive snaps this season as the Rams' slot corner. Hill started the final three games of the regular season and the Rams' playoff loss last season. Shields made more than 60 starts during his seven seasons in Green Bay."We can call the same calls with those guys. In fact, we did in the (last) ballgame," defensive coordinator Wade Phillips said. "I feel confident in those guys."The trio will be called upon for an extended period of time as Talib will have surgery on his injured ankle Thursday. The Rams will get a better sense of the timetable for when the five-time Pro Bowl defensive back might be able to return after the procedure, Rams coach Sean McVay said.Peters is day to day, and McVay expects it will be a game-day decision to determine his status."It's a great representation of his toughness to even still have it be a chance that he's going to play when you look at what occurred and you talk about what that position requires and entails in terms of the movements. He's taking steps in the right direction," McVay said.But Shields spoke as if he already knew he would be making his first start since Week 14 in 2015."Me, Troy Hill, you know, Robey, all us, we got to take care of the back end because two explosive guys out http://www.authenticsminnesotavikings.com/cheap-andrew-sendejo-jersey ," Shields said.Shields missed all of 2017 because of concussions, but has been effective in spot duty for the Rams, including making an interception against Arizona. Still, the 30-year-old feels as if he has something to prove and is relishing the opportunity to show it against his former NFC North rivals."For me, it's just kind of (a chance) to show the people that I still got it. I can still do it," Shields said.Shields wasn't the only one expressing the notion the backups would be on a mission. Starting safety Lamarcus Joyner does not expect a secondary that has allowed 199 yards per game and two touchdown passes to miss a beat just because the two high-profile offseason acquisitions in Talib and Peters might be absent."I don't know if you all heard, but we know we got two corners behind those guys that can start anywhere else in this league, including for this team," Joyner said. "When you lose elite cornerbacks like that you still feel confident because you got another pair of great corners coming in."Joyner believes the biggest challenge is getting familiar with how Hill and Shields express themselves on the field together in such a short amount of time. The Rams held two walkthroughs Tuesday, with Phillips likening the early session to a typical Wednesday practice and the afternoon stretch to the Thursday of a normal game week.Even with truncated preparations, the Rams defense is confident Shields, Hill and Robey-Coleman will be ready."But if they test them, they are going to get intercepted just like Talib and Peters can do," defensive lineman Aaron Donald said. "If one guy goes down, the other guys step up. They got big shoes to fill, but they'll do it."NOTES: OLB Dominique Easley (knee) would not have participated if the Rams had held a full practice Tuesday and is questionable. McVay said it was hard to gauge whether Easley would play because of the limited physical work leading up to Thursday night.Two years later White Danielle Hunter Jersey , a look back on the day that changed Vikings history forever Most of us probably remember where we were when either an alert flashed across our phone or we checked Twitter and saw the news: Teddy Bridgewater had gone down with a serious knee injury.The news only got worse and worse as people started to comprehend the severity of the injury. And then came the Mike Zimmer press conference, where the visibly emotional coach recalled his wife’s passing when talking about the situation. It was an awful day for the Vikings community.On the field, the team had been gearing up for a Super Bowl run. Remember, this was a team that had come within seconds of winning a playoff game a year before (we won’t discuss why that didn’t happen). The backup quarterback was Shaun Hill. So Rick Spielman went out and made a blockbuster trade, sending a first round pick to the Eagles for Sam Bradford. The Eagles not only got a first round pick for a quarterback whose days in Philly were numbered, but they also cleared the way to give their starting job to rookie Carson Wentz. Had he not started in 2016, it’s very possible he wouldn’t have developed into an MVP candidate who helped the Eagles win the Super Bowl in the 2017 season.Meanwhile, in the first regular season game at U.S. Bank Stadium, Bradford looked amazing, outplaying Aaron Rodgers en route to a Vikings win. The Vikings looked like the league’s best team for five weeks, until injuries derailed the season and ultimately caused them to miss the playoffs. They then didn’t have a first round pick. Shaun Hill was done, and the Vikings needed a new backup quarterback. There are two ways to look at what happened: Spielman knew he had to pay more attention to the position after the Bridgewater injury, so he went out and signed a guy with starting experience who’d shown potential in spots and had been an all-time great college quarterback.Spielman signed a journeyman backup who’d been given numerous chances and had never played well enough to keep a starting spot for a sustained period of time.Hello, Case Keenum.Nobody paid much attention to the signing. After all, Bradford was the starter, and Bridgewater was expected back at some point. Keenum wasn’t even a lock to make the roster.But then Bridgewater started the season on the PUP list and Bradford got injured after another incredible prime-time performance to open the season. So Keenum was the starter White Brett Jones Jersey , and it looked like the Vikings were doomed.We all know what happened next. But because Keenum hadn’t played at a high level for multiple seasons, the Vikings were able to go in a different direction. And because Bridgewater hadn’t started a game since January 2016, the Vikings were able to go in a different direction. So Kirk Cousins, the top quarterback on the market, headed to the Vikings. It was probably the biggest free-agent signing in Minnesota since Zach Parise and Ryan Suter signed with the Wild in 2012 (feel free to debate this one). Both Keenum and Bradford will likely start the season as starting quarterbacks. Bridgewater was traded to the Saints yesterday, in a move that might set him up to be Drew Brees’ eventual successor. I really hope he gets another chance to be a starting quarterback. Here’s Ted’s “what if” on the whole situation, if you want to go down that road again. Think for a second, though, about how much everything has changed in these two years, and how it all happened because of one ill-fated dropback. And to end, here’s Zimmer on Bridgewater, right after he was drafted.“I said, ‘How’s your heart?’” Zimmer recalled. “He said, ‘Well, they said it was too big.’”