Adrian Peterson needs to work on his ball-handling this week, or CHI will tear it loose all day next week

I really think its a matter of poor play selection. Today we got lucky and actually got some calls are way by the refs.

Way to many issues this game.. Kicking the field goal after the touchdown instead of going for 2 was very stupid. Another thing is THIS IS DETROIT! Ferotte is no good chippy little 4 yard passes terrible play calling. An obvious passing situation and lining up with 2 RB’s and 2 WR’s is terrible… Ryan Cook showed hes still bad.. man this game was painful to watch and was very boring.

Man, that’s two weeks in a row, saved by the other team beating themselves.

I can’t believe I had Super Bowl hopes before this season started. The game wasn’t shown out here, I had to watch the Rams pull out a last-second fg to win a game they didn’t overwhelmingly deserve either, living on the show highlights of the Vikings-Lions. Saw Berrian’s run, and for the first time, he was ahead and stayed ahead of pursuit! He actually looked pretty good, have no idea how he snuck that far ahead of the coverage though.

Ah well. At the end of the season, when all is tallied up, a win is a win is a win. Maybe a habit is being built here.

I mean it. I was disappointed that we managed to kick the game winning field goal. We almost clinched a loss today, which would’ve almost definitely canned Childress.

Firing our head coach gives me more hope and optimism than does a win we should’ve never had to begin with.

Is it just me, or does it seem like often through the years, even when the Vikings win a game, the highlight reels tend to show the other side more or in a better light than they do the Vikes? Irksome, that.

Anyway, NFL.com has an excellent video recap of the game, much better than the measley highlights I saw while watching another game. It was also really nice to be able to freeze the action and go back and see exactly what happened and who was where, doing what to whom. After watching it, I’m still not impressed by the win, but the one thing that made me feel bad, was cleared up;

The pass interference call on Rice was dead-on. Bodden put out his right-hand on Rice’s left shoulder, just below the pads. Now, I’m not sure how much different it really made, but he DID interfere and it wasn’t just a bad referee call that gave the Vikings that field position. Maybe it wasn’t pretty, but not beating yourself is half the game, as we know all too well, and it’s a Viking win.

Berrian is still a slow dog. Saw his entire run this time, repeatedly, and Berrian did make a good move that caught one Lion flat-footed and the second incomming defender collided with the first. The third was blocked by a Viking, and Berrian ran for the endzone, narrowly avoiding being caught from behind. I liked the move he put out at the beginning of the run, but the Vikes still need to find a speedster WR.

AP needs get better acquainted with the football, but I’m sure he feels pretty bad about those two fumbles – that’s not par for him. I loved seeing Kleinsasser’s catch and run, the man is a rarely used talent that I hope Gus remembers more often.

Last week the Saints kicked our butts statistically, but we pulled a win out of our _. Today we kicked the Lions’ butts statistically, and we managed to pull a win out of our __.

Once again the Vikes play to the level of their opponent. Scary stuff, being a fan of this team.

We did everything we could to try to lose this game. Childress’ patented Prevent Offense almost reared its ugly head again. 1st and goal at the 10, penalty. 1st and goal at the 20, Childress figures its a ‘safe’ distance to not even try to move the ball so we could get a FG, and surprise surprise, it didn’t work.

The team pulled it out despite BC. Next week we need to cut the turnovers and penalties for a chance to beat da Bears. I think we can do it – the passing game didn’t look too bad today!

definitely needs to work on holding onto the damn football. Definitely a lucky win, but I wouldn’t be so hard on Chilly as I would be on the players. I felt like Gus had a pretty good game and so did the wideouts. But the o-line was atrocious. Had Adrian held onto the ball those two times, however. I bet we would have scored more points.

Is my suggestion and article calling for Childress’ firing out of line now?

this was a very boring game to watch to say the least.
the vikings offense this season is just plain horrible, all the yardage stats doesn’t mean shit when they don’t score touchdowns.

but it is good to see that bernard berrian is starting to show his price tag worth, i think next week against the bears would be a good time to try and copy the dolphins direct snap to RB

i saw a few dropped passes this game, receivers really should put in more time practicing catching balls

Vegas had the vikes as a 13 point favorite, Detroit has not won atr the dome since I think ‘97? wow this team is hard to watch, if we play like this in Chicago they will kill us, it all starts up front, the O line is terrible right now, McKinney looks slow and fat?, Benard is making things happen, he drew a pass interferance call in the first half, and was some what involved in the offence today, they still need to run more quick slants to him, and by the way when is Rice coming back? I think he is turning out to be a pussy, can’t play hurt? at least Benard is playing through his injury. and oh by the way please fire Childress so we can start courting Cower NOW!! before detroit, or some other god afful teams nsags him, I wound also love to see Shotenheimer come to thew vikes. his teams could always score!