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The perennial Pro Bowl cornerback with the Cardinals relishes his new opportunity and still is "trying to get better."
The Vikings had concluded a three-game preseason schedule during which Patrick Peterson did not play a snap, and the eight-time Pro Bowl cornerback was talking with Karl Scott, the Vikings' new defensive backs coach just five years his senior.
"He was like, 'I don't give a sugar honey iced tea what PFF [Pro Football Focus] says about you. Just go be you,'" Peterson recalled. "When a coach gives you that confidence, gives you that green light, for me, especially, the sky's the limit.