Since Captain Munnerlyn signed with the Vikings last spring as a free agent, Cordarrelle Patterson has had to listen to him talk regularly about a result from last October:

Carolina 35, Minnesota 10.

The cornerback played his first five seasons with the Panthers, and Patterson said he “always” brings up that game. But the Vikings wide receiver has been able to get a little bit of revenge lately.

“He’s good, but I’m up 2-0 on him because I beat him one-on-one twice and he hasn’t gotten me yet,” Patterson said after Tuesday’s first day of a three-day minicamp.

Patterson said the 5-foot-8 Munnerlyn “talks all the time.”‘ But, he added, Minnesota’s secondary can use a guy like that.

“We need that on our defense,” Patterson said. “We need somebody to be a spark plug, and Captain, he’s going to bring some heat to the game, talk a little junk, make a little noise. I like that in a defensive player.”

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