Purplexing Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Bad defenses lose games by wide margins. Bad defenses never help a team advance far in the playoffs. Good defenses make meager offenses and QBs look good; e.g. Brad Johnson, Joe Flacco, Jim McMahon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, JDBrocks said: A young QB would be great to develop behind a young and extremely promising OL, with the best WR in the game, and a top 10 security blanket TE. we’ll see. Let’s hope we rest up next week and start game-planning for the Giants. All sounds good on paper but we’ve leaned on Cousins playing out of his mind in the fourth quarter. There’s needs to be a shift in mentality and coaching and execution has to get better. It just baffles me that the same issue rears it’s ugly head every week and the players and coaches simply can’t overcome it. Edited January 2, 2023 by vikingsrule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, Purplexing said: Bad defenses lose games by wide margins. Bad defenses never help a team advance far in the playoffs. Good defenses make meager offenses and QBs look good; e.g. Brad Johnson, Joe Flacco, Jim McMahon. 3 Ints and a lost fumble doesn’t help either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplexing Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Turnovers are good fresh out of the oven, but not on a football field. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDBrocks Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 1 minute ago, vikingsrule said: All sounds good on paper but we’ve leaned on Cousins playing out of his mind in the fourth quarter. There’s needs to be a shift in mentality and coaching and execution has to get better. It just baffles me that the same issue rears it’s ugly head every week and the players and coaches simply can’t overcome it. So no one can improve from year one to year two? Or you haven’t seen enough good in year one to think that things will ever be good enough? They are winning a lot of games and not playing their best ball. I see that as a great thing in year one. I want them to improve too, but to see this year as anything other than a wild success is pretty pessimistic, imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplexing Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 The talent on O is being used effectively, .... most of the time. The talent on D isn't being used effectively .... most of the time. Logic says the most effective way to improve results to the greatest extent is to improve the greatest weakness.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, JDBrocks said: So no one can improve from year one to year two? Or you haven’t seen enough good in year one to think that things will ever be good enough? They are winning a lot of games and not playing their best ball. I see that as a great thing in year one. I want them to improve too, but to see this year as anything other than a wild success is pretty pessimistic, imo. The winning is great and of course they can improve next year. Which is what I had said a couple of posts back; I don’t think it’s fixable this year. It will take an offseason of reflection. But I agree, the wins will help with culture and they’ve obviously outplayed expectations. But we have a negative point differential for a 12 win team, which is absurd. There is no way they can match their performance in one score games next year, so let’s find a way to put teams away in the second and third quarters. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Plissken Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I think to be more effective offensively we need to improve in 3 areas. 1. Kirk needs to be more consistent with decision making. He has been amazing at times, but to take the next step he needs to force the ball less (to Hock, and Thielen specifically), get rid of ball quicker/throw ball away, be better in risk-reward situations, and checking out of calls at the LOS. He has looked good running the ball and should consider that more. 2. KOC needs to better with play calling. He gets some slack for being a rookie HC and first time play caller, but 15 games in he should be less predictable. 3. OC or guys in the booth need to do a better job of identifying, analyzing and communicating with KOC during games. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perrynoid Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 53 minutes ago, Purplexing said: Turnovers are good fresh out of the oven, but not on a football field. Unless they are being served up by the opposition, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Relax Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 13 hours ago, SotanKing said: yeah..this is his worst year in a while based on most of the advanced stats data..he usually used to rank in 5-15 range in EPA/Play for most of his career but this season he is ranked around 20th. This also has been worst season accuracy wise based on CPOE %(used to measure accuracy)..he usually used to be near top3 or top5 in this stat. Even his PFF grade has gone down this year when compared to last 3 seasons Thanks for reminding me why I hate analytics and statistics!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelKing728 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 15 hours ago, Purplexing said: The talent on O is being used effectively, .... most of the time. The talent on D isn't being used effectively .... most of the time. Logic says the most effective way to improve results to the greatest extent is to improve the greatest weakness.... So we'll draft a RunningBack in round 1 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 6 minutes ago, SteelKing728 said: So we'll draft a RunningBack in round 1 lol Or trade the pick to a rival at a discount. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcblack34 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 18 hours ago, JDBrocks said: A young QB would be great to develop behind a young and extremely promising OL, with the best WR in the game, and a top 10 security blanket TE. we’ll see. Let’s hope we rest up next week and start game-planning for the Giants. We aren't going to be anywhere near a draftable QB this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDBrocks Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 6 minutes ago, wcblack34 said: We aren't going to be anywhere near a draftable QB this year. Oh I know, I was just responding to the idea that this situation wouldn’t be an ideal landing spot for a QBOTF. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikesfan89 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 30 minutes ago, JDBrocks said: Oh I know, I was just responding to the idea that this situation wouldn’t be an ideal landing spot for a QBOTF. I don't get all of the doom and gloom for the future 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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