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13	Januar 2018

Then-Texans coach Gary Kubiak liked Keenum

, signed him and gave him a http://www.authenticbluesstore.com/-75-ryan-reaves-jersey_c-464.html chance to make it in the league. Keenum had so much to learn about running a conventional NFL offense, getting under center and playing with an actual tight end. He got his big break in 2013 when Matt Schaub coughed up a dizzying series of pick-sixes, and Keenum responded by throwing for seven touchdowns and 822 yards without an interception in his first three games. Problem was, Houston failed to win any of those games. Keenum's production fell off, and before he knew it, Womens Teddy Purcell Jersey he had lost his first eight NFL starts.

"It affected me," he said. "It didn't stop me. http://www.nflbrownsofficial.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_NATE_ORCHARD_JERSEY.html ... It beat me down physically, mentally. I wasn't used to losing, and I took a lot of that on myself. I think that's why I play quarterback. You get the ball in your hands and you make decisions every play. And to not be successful like that was really hard, really frustrating. And it took some time to learn from that."

Keenum lives in a Minneapolis suburb with his wife, Kimberly, who grew up with Case in Abilene. They attended the same church, and Susan Keenum was Kimberly's fifth-grade phys ed teacher. They saw each other at track meets and FCA events, and one day in his junior year of high school, Case asked the senior, Kimberly, to get a snow cone. They've been together ever since.
But the 0-8 start to Keenum's career tested what had been a charmed existence. The quarterback was bringing his workplace struggles home with him. "I was burning the candle C.J. Anderson Authentic Jersey at both ends that year," Case said. "I would go in early and I would stay late, and all I thought about was football. You can't win like that. You can't live like that. My wife is incredible and we have a great relationship, but our relationship suffered. Not between us, but just because of the stress. You're not a healthy person when you're worrying Bryan Anger Jersey that much. So that was one of the things I learned. This game, you can put everything you can into it, but that's all you can put into it. If you try to do more, sometimes it ends up being less."
Keenum was waived by the Texans, signed and waived by the Rams and then re-signed by Houston off the Rams' practice squad. He claimed his first career victories against Baltimore and Jacksonville at the end of the 2014 season, then was traded back to the Rams for a seventh-round pick in 2015. He suffered a concussion against the Ravens that season that exposed the flaws of the league's protocol when he was never removed from the field; he recovered to win three of his final four games and lock down the starting job for the franchise's first season back in Los Angeles in 2016. He knew he was keeping the position warm until Jared Goff was ready to go. And after nine games (four of them victories), Jeff Fisher gave the No. 1 overall pick the ball.
Minnesota knew http://www.newyorkgiants.us.com/WOMENS-ROBERT-THOMAS-JERSEY.html Keenum could play a little bit -- he did complete a Rams-record 19 consecutive passes, throwing for 321 yards and three touchdowns in a shootout loss with Detroit's Matthew Stafford. But Minnesota had no idea Keenum would become one of the league's more valuable players after starting the season without Bridgewater, then losing Bradford in Week 2. The Vikings had no idea that the obstacles their new quarterback had to overcome, in Keenum's words, "made me into a tough SOB."
His toughness was never more evident than on a 22-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Rudolph on Thanksgiving Day. From the shotgun, Keenum saw Lions safety Miles Killebrew move up to the left side of the defense before the snap. Keenum adjusted his protection to account for the blitz, took the snap and then saw Killebrew bearing down on him with no impediment in sight. Keenum could have scrambled, folded like a tent or thrown the ball away. Instead, he stood firm and waited for Rudolph to get open on his corner route, then delivered a perfect pass over the top while Killebrew crashed into his rib cage. As Keenum fell to the turf, he smacked into a lineman to his rear. He didn't feel any pain amid the delirium of the moment. "But I was as sore as can be the next day," he said.
Vikings coach Mike Zimmer didn't need to see that play to form an opinion on Keenum. Before Minnesota even played Detroit, Zimmer offered an old-school scouting report: "The thing I like most about Case is he's got big balls."
Keenum was strong against the blitz all year, and strong outside the pocket. Yet the most profound impression he made on his teammates involved the hours he kept and the passion he showed. It's common for quarterbacks to be first-one-in, last-one-out types; it's all but written into the job description. But they say Keenum takes that to a new level. Quarterbacks coach Kevin Stefanski normally shares his first cup of coffee with Keenum around 6 in the morning, and the two of them let the caffeine put the daily game plan into focus. Stefanski has been around a lot of grinders in his dozen years with the Vikings, but Keenum is in a league of his own. "His self-motivation is off the charts," Stefanski said. "He's obsessed with the process."
Adam Thielen might be Womens Tommy Wingels Jersey the teammate most qualified to define Keenum's hunger. As an undrafted Division II player out of Minnesota State-Mankato, Thielen http://www.officialtitansfootballshop.com/titans+jayon+brown+jersey had an even tougher road to navigate to the NFL than Keenum's. The Pro Bowl receiver doesn't discount the possibility that their seemingly symbiotic bond is rooted in their shared backstory, though he guesses he has a better explanation for their success as first-time teammates. "I think honestly what makes our connection good is we don't really care what people think about us," Thielen said. "We just want to go out there and help the team win."
Thielen moved the conversation back to Keenum's work ethic. "He's not just showing up at 6 a.m. just to be here. He's got a plan. He knows the defense before we play them, and he knows the game plan better than anyone I've ever been around. ... Maybe even better than some of the coaches." new nike nfl jerseys jerseys for cheap mlb jerseys cheap mlb baseball jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys mlb jerseys cheap jerseys china mlb jerseys wholesale