Winfield Officially Ruled Out for Sunday
by Christopher Gates on Nov 12, 2009 7:09 PM CST
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PrintJason LaCanfora of the NFL Network is reporting that CB Antoine Winfield will not play this weekend when the Vikings take on the Detroit Lions at the Metrodome.
Winfield suffered a foot injury back in Week 6 against the Baltimore Ravens, and is hoping to return for Minnesota's matchup against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 11.
Good move by the Vikings to keep #26 on the bench for this week, I think. The extra week off will have given Winfield a full month to rest up, and it's obviously much better for him to be completely healthy than to risk a potential aggravation of the injury at a later date by rushing him back.
Hopefully, it will turn out that we didn't need him this weekend after all.
And a quick programming reminder. . .tonight marks the first Thursday night football game of the 2009 season, and it's something of a concern to us, as it features the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers. The game is being shown on the NFL Network, and if you don't have that on your cable package, you can follow along with the game on NFL.com as well.
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Good move
If they can go 2-1 without him, they should be able to beat Detroit without his services. Get him 100% for the stretch run.
BTW…on the NFL game their is no announcer voices, just crowd noise. It’s AWESOME!!!
"We're used to Favre-a-palooza now. We're engulfed in Favre-a-palooza. It's not even Favre-a-palooza anymore. He's family now."
--Vikings TE Visanthe Shiancoe, on Brett Favre
If they go 2-1 without him I'll be pisssed
3-0 is expected.
by Jepp The Viking on Nov 12, 2009 7:38 PM CST reply actions
Too late
They’ve already lost one without him. (-:
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by Christopher Gates on Nov 12, 2009 7:41 PM CST up reply actions
Don't need him this week
Vikes will be fine without him
Cutler goes 80 yards to be intercepted with 1 second left in end zone to lose
How appropriate … Frisco wins 10-6
oh and did i mention
that was his 5th interception? wow
Cutler had more interceptions in the second half of this game than Brett Favre has had in half a season!
Actually, it ties the number Favre has, but the point is still there. I can’t wait until we play them, if only to see how many Bears fans come over here to eat their crow. How’s Pace doing? Yeah, he’s not the pro-bowl LT like you thought? How’s Cutler? Yep, he’s a gunslinger. And Marinelli? What? Oh, he hasn’t really effected that D-Line very much?
Seriously. Cannot wait.
That was so Epic!..
We just clinched the division folks.
Well if I did it right...
Using the MLB magic number formula, Games left 8 + 1 – games ahead of closest rival 3 = Magic Number is 6. Any combination of Viking wins and Packer losses adding up to 6 means the Vikings have officially clinched.
"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Nov 13, 2009 1:16 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, really, Lovie?
He said, and I quote, “sure we can still make the playoffs. We only have 5 losses, there’s a lot of football left.”
Interesting. I guess he hasn’t been hanging around here this past week. :)
Well, technically, he’s right. They could turn it around and still go 11-5. But it’s highly, highly unlikely. Just too many holes on that team. The best part? They don’t have a single first day draft pick this upcoming draft. They’re going to have to be extremely active players in FA to try and patch up this team.
Just woke my wife up laughing
She didn’t appreciate the humor, but I do.
"We're used to Favre-a-palooza now. We're engulfed in Favre-a-palooza. It's not even Favre-a-palooza anymore. He's family now."
--Vikings TE Visanthe Shiancoe, on Brett Favre
I was kidding hahah..But
interms of Worse..its Russell 1, Cutler 2, Anderson 3, Jason Campbell, 4. Matt Cassell, 5.
We watch Raiders games out here on the West Coast...
… because it’s the best weekly comedy show running.
Go Nevada Wolf Pack!
by BacksThePack on Nov 13, 2009 1:28 AM CST up reply actions
I don't get it
what happened to “Jay Cutler will lead the Bears to the Super Bowl” and “Jay Cutler is the best QB in football”?
From the only TRUE North division
by thewild_viking_twins on Nov 12, 2009 10:45 PM CST reply actions
FOX must not be happy
about the Bears losing tonight. They just moved the game and the Bears keep going further into the tank.
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Fox probably doesn't care
The Viking’s bandwagon is getting pretty full and putting the Vikes in primetime (even against the Bears) is good for Fox.
Plus, it’ll be the week the Vikes clinch the division!
Lovie's full of it
Have you seen Da Bears schedule. They got Philly next week & they play us twice plus the Ravens. They will end up 6-10 maybe 7-9. Cutler has an arm but he forces to many plays.
What if?
The Packers beat the Cowboys? I know you guys are wanting to clinch by week 12. And I give you that you will probably have the division all wrapped up by some point. But if the Packers do get a win, then that might throw a wrench in your early celebrations. The Bears are bombing and the Packers are struggling, but the Packers could spoil a few teams. Who knows? I know it’s a big maybe. Yet the Dallas game might be closer than some predict. Or am I wishing for too much?
On a side note: I am not so confident in my fantasy QB (Aaron Rodgers) so I sat him. Instead, I started Brett Favre against the Lions. I wonder if this was a good move. I also have Adrian Peterson. It might be a case where one excels and the other does not. I am hoping that Favre gets a few TDs and then Peterson plays mop up and scores a couple times.
No matter what, we can agree that it is good to see the Bears lose.
I hope the Packers do win
Partly so our friends over at ACME don’t all start jumping off of bridges and the other because I think at teh end of the year the Cowboys might be the team vying with us for second seed, while I highly doubt the Pack will be an issue at all by the end of the season.
except that
peterson doesn’t play mop up. assuming the vikes jump all over the lions (which they should), i wouldn’t be surprised to see both favre and peterson sit most/all of the fourth quarter. of course, they might put up a game’s worth of numbers in the first half or three quarters…
I dunno. I really don’t think the Cowboys will have a terrible time dealing with the Packers. I mean, your O-Line is just terrible. We could see Demarcus Ware have another huge game, like he did last year against the Giants when he had 5 sacks. I think they’ll be a bit too much for the Packers to handle, on both sides of the ball.
I'm glad we have the luxury
…of being able to rest Antoine. If the division were closer they’d have him playing this week. Now he can get get back to 100%.
Rest up...
Glad to hear he is going to be resting up. It gives others a chance to step up and see how well they can perform. I’d rather see him get 100% vs. re-injure himself.
As for the Packers/Cowboys – game. I would actually be happier to see them win. Any loss to a division leader other than the north is fine by me. Even if it has to be the Packers from our division. Nothing like creating a little breathing room. I know it maybe what pushes us clynching the division maybe a week or two later, but I would be fine with that. — I’m more focused on our team seeing a 1st round bye in the playoffs. That bye week can be great for resting up, healing injuries, etc. etc.
That's exactly right
The Packers would do us a favor in the homefield playoff race by beating the Cowboys.
Jeff George v 2.0 strikes again; and again and again and again, and again!
"We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights for lordship. Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Odin gave them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had come."
-Bram Stoker
But he's got a live arm!
"We're used to Favre-a-palooza now. We're engulfed in Favre-a-palooza. It's not even Favre-a-palooza anymore. He's family now."
--Vikings TE Visanthe Shiancoe, on Brett Favre
From ESPN's Bill Simmons today:
Cowboys (-3) over PACKERS
Green Bay’s record since Nov. 2, 2008: 6-11. The six wins? Chicago (twice); Detroit (twice); St. Louis; Cleveland. They aren’t good. Sorry. It’s true. Look at the bright side, Packers fans — at least Brett Favre’s inevitable injury is coming up soon. You can smell it in the air. It’s like logs burning in the fireplace.
Hmmmm
Well with the Packers being a current 500 team, they aren’t giving us Vikings fans much to brag about with credibility of beating teams. Hey! If they can beat the Cowboys, they’ll actually give us a little bit to be happy about. We don’t play them again this year unless by some miracle they get a wildcard, so as as long as we keep winning, they can keep winning as well for all I care. Seems at some point during the year, some teams give up almost as if they would rather have a better draft pick.
I know that we most definately can’t overlook the bears. But I don’t imagine us winning our last 8 games easily if at all. — We can only take it week by week hoping we win that coming game just like the players take it week by week. I think the way the Vikings come out of this Bye week will really tell us what we can expect from them this 2nd 1/2 of the season.
Politely dissagree
Man for man, we are better than the Bears. The only team I am worried about is the Bengals but we have them at home.
by Jepp The Viking on Nov 13, 2009 3:20 PM CST up reply actions
Winfield looking to come back 11/22
"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Nov 14, 2009 9:12 PM CST reply actions
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