perrynoid Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Wow, Darnold is 12/33 (36.4%) for 143 yds, 1 TD and 3 Int's. Has a 22.7 QBR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikesfan89 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Has Bower played at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y*so*blu Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 The Patriots stop a Hail Mary touchdown ONE YARD SHORT, and they do indeed help us out against Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nozizaki Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Lol. Just not gonna call that hold and then invent a RTP call. Whatever, game is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFeist Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Terrible call on Richardson. The NFL needs to put intent along with these rules protecting players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFeist Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 2 minutes ago, vikesfan89 said: Has Bower played at all? Haven’t seen him. Probably still hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klomp Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 9 minutes ago, vikesfan89 said: Has Bower played at all? Isn't he 90? In that drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelKing728 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Good win. We need Barr and Rhodes back next week. Huge game against New Orleans! Skol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelKing728 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 51 minutes ago, gopherwrestler said: I thought it was just a broken leg.... (just) doesnt look good They said Hamstring. I guess we'll take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vike daddy Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 1 hour ago, y*so*blu said: And Hill's first play as a starter is an interception. Way to make an impression. don't you have to start the game to be a starter...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cearbhall Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Just now, vike daddy said: don't you have to start the game to be a starter...? I don't know. Don't you have to touch a punted ball to muff the punt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swede700 Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 20 hours ago, JDBrocks said: @swede700 - just a gentle reminder that you were wrong. God forbid I be wrong. I said at the time that it was an opinion, that I thought he would play. I've been wrong about a lot of things...I did get divorced once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitStickAllDay Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Anybody else think David Parry played well in limited time? I thought our rotational DT strategy looked pretty solid throughout. Weatherly is filling in great, Hunter is a freak of nature, and Richardson gives us that inside pressure we’ve sorely missed. Hoping Everson returns to health but we look great even without him. Many of Darnold’s mistakes were due to subtle pressure from the line or on occasion the blitz. Was pretty fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krauser Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The offense was frustrating to watch. The Jets were selling out, sending guys downhill on run blitzes and the Vikings kept running into stacked boxes or throwing screens and other short passes. That was the game plan that worked against the Eagles but the Jets hardly missed any tackles and the t Vikings couldn’t quite make the quick passing game work (most obvious example, the screen to Diggs where Thielen misses the block on the only DB in the picture, play might’ve gone for a huge gain otherwise. The Vikings run game too often telegraphed plays by motioning Treadwell into the box. When they ran from spread looks, it was more slowly developing outside runs or Diggs on an end around — one of those plays worked (Boone to the left IIRC) but several of the others lost significant yardage. They had a huge number of runs stuffed, and a couple of decent gains called back by penalty. The handful of explosive runs including Murray’s 2 TDs were a product of the same strategies that led to the Vikings run game being throttled for most of the day — the Jets were coming downhill so hard that as soon as they left a gap open there was no one on the second level to limit the gain. Note that the Jets used the opposite strategy to the Vikings run defense. The Vikings stop the run with light boxes, keeping gap control without trying to penetrate, and making takes for short gains. So the Vikings hardly have any stops for negative yards on early down run plays (they do blow up some short yardage plays or make TFLs on 3rd down draws like Tom Johnson did near the goalline vs the Jets), but they hardly ever allow more than 2-3 yards on any given play, and they essentially never give up breakaway runs against like Murray’s long TD. Gaining 3 yards on a 1st down run seems better for the offense than -2 yards, but a run or two like that leads to a very good place for the Vikings defense (3rd and 5), and the added benefit of occasional TFLs is outweighed by the risk of giving up explosive run plays against, which they rarely do. For the pass offense, I wanted to see the Vikings throw more intermediate routes. With the safeties and LBs cheating toward the LOS, there should’ve been gaps for Rudolph up the seams or the WRs on 12-15 yard digs and comebacks. Instead, it seemed that almost all the passes Cousins threw beyond 10 yards were deep shots. That led to 2 explosive TDs but the lack of a more effective bread and butter passing game killed a bunch of drives. Between the mostly stalled run game, the ineffective screen game and the low percentage deep shots, the Vikings offense went 3 and out 7 times, and punted 8 times, even while scoring 37 points. 16 drives (8 punts, missed FG, 4 TDs, 3 FGs) is a lot, 4-5 more drives than the Vikings get in a typical game. That alone accounts for the high point total, which isn’t that impressive if you realize it was basically 3 halves worth of drive opportunities compressed into a single game. The defense conversely did better than the score suggests, allowing only 3 scores on a similarly high total number of drives. I wasn’t happy with Kendricks taking a stupid angle on the wheel route (he overplayed a flat route and got burned) on the first TD drive, and missing a tackle on a screen pass that I believe started their 2nd TD drive, but the defense otherwise played well. They didn’t get a ton of pressure against a decent OL but they made Darnold uncomfortable, and the coverage was good enough that he was getting frustrated. At one point, late in the 3rd quarter or early 4th, Darnold had thrown something like 12 straight attempts without completing a pass for a positive gain (1 for 12 or whatever during that span for -5 yards on a screen pass that got snuffed out). The “bad passes” Darnold threw late in the game that led to picks were mostly a product of that frustration and some desperation around the score, and to their credit the Vikings made him pay by picking off 3. Special teams were up and down. Huge credit to Wile for flipping field position a couple of times with monster punts — the offense wasn’t moving, but getting a 60+ yard net on a punt means a lot. Bailey missed a FG but that wasn’t his fault. Kick and punt coverage was pretty bad and Kearse missed a chance to recover a fumble inside the 10 that might’ve salted the game away early (17-7 if they’d punched it in from there). The Jets aren’t a bad team at all, smoked the Lions and the Broncos this year. The Vikings didn’t play well but just outclassed them on both sides,of the ball. Not at all a great game but pretty easily their best game of the year. If the Vikings get some guys back from injury and finally start playing better, they could be really good by the end of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krauser Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Here's what I mean about the Jets selling out on run blitzes: This kind of thing looks great when it works but Adams was also flying downhill on Murray's TDs, which is one reason why he was untouched once he found a gap at the line of scrimmage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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