Vikings rookie kicker Will Reichard is not Daniel Carlson

For Vikings fans, Sunday is another litmus test for Reichard. After all, he is a newbie. … He's on his way to Lambeau Field. …It's September… (See where we're going with this?)

“Yeah, I’ve heard of Daniel Carlson,” Reichard said when asked, well, you know. “I actually know Daniel pretty well through his younger brother Anders (a former Packers kicker), who I became friends with when we went to a lot of high school kicking camps around the country.

“I saw Daniel this summer. We trained together in Tennessee. He told me I would like it up here.”

If that last part is true, then that's a great effort by Daniel to highlight Minnesota's strengths, considering his Vikings career only lasted two games before coach Mike Zimmer fired him in Green the morning after a 29-29 tie Bay in Week 2 of the 2018 season.

Carlson, a fifth-round pick, was 0-for-3 on field goals on the day. He missed a 48-yarder late in the first half, a 49-yarder midway through overtime and a 35-yarder as time expired.

“Yeah, to be honest, we really didn’t talk much about this game,” Reichard said. “I didn’t really want to ask him what happened that day in Lambeau. I thought it might be a sensitive subject. But he obviously recovered and became one of the best kickers in the NFL in Las Vegas.”