{"id":12027,"date":"2014-10-13T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12027"},"modified":"2014-10-13T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:26:06","slug":"vikings-coach-says-patterson-must-get-open-if-he-wants-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/13\/vikings-coach-says-patterson-must-get-open-if-he-wants-the-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings coach says Patterson must get open if he wants the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_12028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12028\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/cordarrellepatterson.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/cordarrellepatterson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/cordarrellepatterson-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThose expecting big numbers out of Vikings wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson have been left largely disappointed this season.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Lions Patterson recorded just two catches for 15 yards. <\/p>\n<p>Paterson gave the standard have to do better for the team line after the game saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not them shutting me down,\u201d Patterson said, per <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/minnesota-vikings\/post\/_\/id\/9820\/cordarrelle-patterson-says-hes-not-100-percent-limited-sunday-with-hip-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN.com<\/a>. \u201cSome DB\u2019s are smarter than the other ones. Some of them run the routes with you, some do more studying than others. It\u2019s just our receivers and whole offense, we\u2019ve just got to do better as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson also said that his hip injury was still holding him down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m 100 percent. I should be next week,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cJust keep getting treatment, just keep grinding in treatment and do what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer is not buying into the effort of anyone on the club right now and let it be known that catching the ball required getting open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got to do a better job of getting open,\u201d Zimmer said via Yahoo Sports. \u201cI\u2019m tired of hearing about all of this stuff. He\u2019s the second-most targeted guy on the team, so if he wants the ball, tell him to get open.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those expecting big numbers out of Vikings wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson have been left largely disappointed this season. In Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Lions Patterson recorded just two catches for 15 yards. Paterson gave the standard have to do better for the team line after the game saying: \u201cIt\u2019s not them shutting me down,\u201d Patterson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[525,844,152,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-12027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cordarrelle-patterson","tag-mike-zimmer","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12029,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions\/12029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12027"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}