MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesotas replacement plan for Teddy Bridgewater has received an emergency activation.Shaun Hill will be the first remedy.I have confidence in him, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. I have confidence in this football team.Bridgewaters recovery from a badly damaged left knee, sustained during a seemingly harmless drill in practice Tuesday with nobody near him, will be the most important development for the Vikings over the next year and beyond.The most crucial issue for the teams immediate future will be how well Hill, or whoever else might wind up leading the huddle in the 2016 season, can handle the caretaker role while Bridgewater embarks on an arduous rehab.Hill has started 34 games over a borderline-nomadic career in the league. None came in the playoffs.As a 15-year veteran, the value of Hills experience is deeper than the spot duties he has handled with San Francisco, Detroit, St. Louis and now Minnesota following the injuries that thrust him into action.Zimmer, at the beginning of training camp when Hills capability as a backup was being discussed, recalled a scenario from 2015 when Hill was running the offense in spring practice. The timeouts in this particular drill were used up, so Hill was already thinking a step ahead.He said, `Do you want an incompletion, or should I take a sack in this situation? Zimmer said then. Things like that make me think, too. He has seen so many things. He catches on quick. He understands the offense. And hes a good guy.Hill is 17 for 25 for 192 yards with no interceptions, or touchdowns, in the preseason. He probably wont play on Thursday when the Vikings host St. Louis in their final exhibition game. Keeping him healthy is far more important than giving him a few extra snaps to tune up for the opener at Tennessee on Sept. 11.Hill never threw a pass that counted in a four-year stint with the Vikings, who signed him out of Maryland as an undrafted free agent in 2002. The two kneel-downs he took in the 2005 season finale marked his only official appearance.He started 16 games over four years with the 49ers because of injuries to Trent Dilfer and Alex Smith. Matthew Stafford went down in 2010, giving Hill a 10-game run in his first of four seasons with the Lions. Sam Bradford was hurt in 2014 during training camp with the Rams, so Hill took his turn in the opener against, fittingly, the Vikings. He started eight games that year before rejoining his original team, going 3-5 to bring his career record to 16-18.Lacking the arm strength to stretch the field, theres nothing special about Hill and his skills. If theres a reason for hope for Vikings fans, its that they were second to last in the league last season in passing touchdowns and yards and still won the NFC North with an 11-5 record.The plan was to strike more of a run-pass balance this year, and Bridgewater was showing strides with the deep throws throughout the preseason. But Adrian Peterson is still in the backfield, and the defense is still stacked.We have a good defensive team. Our offensive line is much better. We have good receivers. We have maybe the best running back in the NFL, Zimmer said. So this is about a team.Taylor Heinicke, the third-stringer last year, has been out with a severed tendon around his left ankle. He could be back soon and work his way into the mix. Regardless, general manager Rick Spielman will be scrutinizing veteran options the rest of the week.Matt Flynn, Michael Vick and T.J. Yates are among the free agents. Current backup quarterbacks who could become available, if theyre let go this weekend or offered in a trade, include Mike Glennon, Colin Kaepernick, Mark Sanchez, Geno Smith and Brandon Weeden.Were going to try figure out the very best way we can to beat the team that were playing that week, Zimmer said. However we have to do it, if its running the ball 65 times or throwing it 65 times, it doesnt really matter. We have a good football team, and thats what were going to do.---Online:AP NFL website: http://www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL coverage on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFLAdidas Nmd Outlet . Louis Blues. Shane Hnidy joins Brian Munz for the broadcast on TSN 1290 Radio at 7pm ct. Adidas Nmd Herren Deutschland . Francis told several hundred members of the European Olympic Committees that when sport "is considered only in economic terms and consequently for victory at every cost . http://www.nmdschuhesale.de/ . 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Romero appeared to elbow and kick Houston defender Kofi Sarkodie.LOS ANGELES -- Yulia Efimova of Russia won the 200-meter breaststroke at the Los Angeles Invitational on Sunday in her first competition since March, the same month she was provisionally suspended for a second career doping violation.She won in 1 minute, 6.30 seconds, finishing 3.93 seconds ahead of the competition in the meet on the Southern California campus, where she had trained in recent years.The 24-year-old swimmer, who has won four world titles and an Olympic bronze medal, was competing for the first time since a meet in Orlando, Florida, in early March. She swept the 100 (1:05.70) and 200 (2.21.41) breaststroke events there, posting the second-fastest times in the world this year in both.Last week, the Russian Swimming Federation released a statement reaffirming that Efimova will be part of the countrys Olympic team that travels to Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 1. The federation said it received a letter from FINA, the sports world governing body, cclearing Efimova to compete in the Olympics without restriction even after multiple positive tests for meldonium.ddddddddddddfimova has professed her innocence. She is considered one of Russias top medal hopes in Rio.Meldonium, the same substance found in tennis star Maria Sharapovas sample at the Australian Open in January, is an endurance-boosting drug that was banned on Jan. 1.Efimova, who won bronze in the 200 breast at the 2012 London Olympics, was stripped of five European championship medals after testing positive for the banned steroid DHEA in 2013. Her ban that time was reduced from two years to 16 months after she argued that she had taken the substance by accident while trying to buy a legal supplement.Efimova returned from that ban to win gold in the 100 breast at last years world championships in Kazan, Russia. ' ' '