The sight, then, of new left tackle Riley Reiff leaving the first full-team practice of training camp on a cart prompted plenty of cringes around the field.
"We're not doing it again. You know what? No more. We're all healthy. We're good," Boone said. "We're good, right? We're good dude. Just say we're good. I can't do this again."
There will be no avoiding the spotlight for this group this season, not after the trouble of a year ago.
When asked about the depth at tackle on Monday, Zimmer didn't exactly offer a ringing endorsement.
Without any official injury reports required during the preseason, the Vikings have not explained how or what Reiff hurt. But he was a spectator, not a participant, for a fourth consecutive day on Monday.
Jeremiah Sirles has returned as a utility man capable of playing four spots, after starting nine games at right tackle and one at left guard last season.
Reiff has been a durable player, taking part in 78 of a possible 82 games with Detroit. Three of those absences came last season, two to a hip injury and one to an illness. He hurt his knee in 2014 and was held out of one game.
Hill, who went undrafted last year out of Southern Mississippi, satisfied the Vikings enough with his performance in the meaningless finale against Chicago after filling in for an injured Clemmings that they didn't sign any other seasoned backups.
With T.J. Clemmings moved inside to guard after his well-documented struggles with the pass rush the past two years, there's little experience behind Reiff and Remmers if injuries are an issue as they were last season when Matt Kalil, Andre Smith and Jake Long all ended up on injured reserve.

With long arms and strong hands on his 6-foot-6, 309-pound frame, Hill has kept up the positive impression in practice with Reiff out.
"Well, we need to stay healthy, I think," he said.
"We just try to block out all the naysayers about being wherever we're supposed to be in the league," Hill said. "We're just trying to build each other."
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Left guard Alex Boone sounded a little more on edge, even in playful sarcasm during an exchange the other day with a reporter who asked if Reiff's absence triggered any "oh,Air Max 90 Black And White, no, not again" feelings from the team.
"I know he's bummed, but he'll be out there soon I'm sure," right tackle Mike Remmers said.
That was a given, after a grueling experience with injuries and ineffectiveness in 2016. The Vikings used 12 players among the five spots and eight unique starting combinations in 16 games,China Jerseys, a major reason why their 5-0 start skidded into an 8-8 finish.
"We don't want to start the same thing that happened last year. We want to try to get through 16 games with these guys, but it's concerning," Zimmer said. "You don't want to get anybody hurt the first day."
Turning serious, Boone went on to tout the sturdiness of his new partner on the left side of the line.
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Offensive line repair was the top offseason priority for the Minnesota Vikings.
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"He's a grinder," Boone said. "I mean,Cheap Jerseys For Wholesale, he's the epitome of a tough guy, so I have no worries about him. His situation is his situation, but at the end of the day we're going to keep going."
Rashod Hill, who was signed off Jacksonville's practice squad late last season, has been taking Reiff's place with the first-team offense.