“J.A. (Jonathan Allen), ‘Graves (Javon Hargrave), all these guys that came in, you know, they’re bringing the right people in,” Van Ginkel said about the roster adds, singling out a couple interior d-linemen that could feasibly elevate his game on the edge. “They built a culture here and they’re sticking to it, and props to K.O. (Head Coach Kevin O’Connell) \u2013 kind of his standard, his expectations, and just filling voids.”<\/p>\n
With a bump in juice on the inside, it’s fair to presume Van Ginkel and fellow edges Jonathan Greenard, Dallas Turner and others, may meet more 1-on-1 opportunities \u2013 and thus “get home” to opposing quarterbacks more frequently.<\/p>\n
There’s another piece, as well, to the aspirational championship puzzle that has Van Ginkel raring to go.<\/p>\n
Regarding the not-so-surprising choice by captain Harrison Smith to return for Year 14, Van Ginkel quipped he was on the fence over any shock: “I am, but I ain’t,” he said, smiling and shaking his head.<\/p>\n
“He’s a guy that loves football, he loves being around the guys, and just being able to develop a relationship with him is special,” Van Ginkel added. “And, you know, he’s still got more left in the tank.”<\/p>\n
Van Ginkel, too. And then some.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, we love it here,” Van Ginkel reiterated. “We wanted to be here, and anytime you can just get an extension, get more security, it’s something that I wanted and I’m glad that we could get it done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“J.A. (Jonathan Allen), ‘Graves (Javon Hargrave), all these guys that came in, you know, they’re bringing the right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[6512,7,233,259,2529,1025,1219,6056,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-86476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-andrew-van-ginkel","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-minnesotavikings","13":"tag-news-index","14":"tag-news-team","15":"tag-news-otas","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114587975378993169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}