Vikings are playing tremendous football right now. They beat 2 of the league's best in their place. Their defense is as tough as the Zimmer days. Jones and Darnold fit in perfectly. Their receiving corps had it so easy Sunday they even had to time to drop some balls with no one near them. And Hockenson is not yet back from injury. We shall have our hands full, Love or no Love.
That’s what I’d recipe. Underneath Crossers, Slants, quick hits to a Chip blocking TE’s. Get the RB involved in the short Passing game. Get the ball out quick. Don’t let the Vikings dictate Squat early on.
The Vikings so far are doing the opposite of what they usually do. They lost the offseason (predicted to finish fourth), but are winning the season (so far). I'm not willing to call of the season and hand them the Lombardi trophy, however.
It was stop Dalvin Cook for several years and before that Adrian Peterson. Now they can hit Jefferson on a corner route and they have AJ.
Didn't the Vikings blitz a lot in 2023 as well? A lot more than when Zimmer was there?
Looks like in 2022 the Vikings blitzed only about 19% of the time. In 2023 that jumped to 48%. You would think they would like to blitz Willis a lot if he starts.
Well said. They need to clean house at HC and OC. Too bad because they have talent.
I wonder if Sundays game will be moved to a national broadcast.
I’m happy Justin is doing well in Pittsburgh but moving on from him was the right decision he’s not worth $50 million a year and Caleb now has as many 300 yard games as he does.
There's more to life than 300 yard games. Usually the losing team racks up passing yards as they try to pass to catch up. The losing team often has more passing yards than the winner. Conversely, the team that's ahead often runs a lot in the second half or last quarter to burn the clock.
Hopefully that will be Green Bay. It’s strange I’ve seen several games including the Vikes where they were out leveraged on 1st Downs, Time of Possession, Yards or a combination of those, but not in final points. MN has been very efficient that’s the one thing that pops out. They get in the Redzone and get 7 regularly. If we can hold a few more of those to FG’s and mitigate their Redzone % that’s a key ingredient.
That’s a good perspective. It was never gonna happen in Chicago for Justin. Cool that you are happy for him.
LMAO! I know Suds, I know. Ya have to forgive me. My brother's wife and her family are all from Chicago land, so we get a lot of exposure to crying Bears' fans. This year will be no different. A lot of crying from Bears' fans.
Sounds like a very legitimate gripe to me.
That's impressive considering we were without our starting quarterback for half those games, and he was kind of rusty for most of the others.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. We really haven’t even cleaned things up yet.
