Sprint Game Ball Of The Week, Week Five

by Christopher Gates on Oct 14, 2010 10:09 PM CDT in Sprint Game Ball of the Week

This post is sponsored by Sprint.

In what shouldn't come as much of a surprise, Percy Harvin was chosen by you, the readers, to receive this week's Sprint Game Ball of the Week for his performance against the New York Jets.

Harvin overshadowed Randy Moss in #84's first game back in a Vikings' uniform. . .sure, Moss might have gotten touchdown pass number 500 from Brett Favre, but Harvin managed to get numbers 501 and 502 as the Vikings mounted a furious comeback at the Meadowlands that came up just a little bit short.

Harvin's 97 yards receiving on Monday night gave him the Vikings' team lead in receiving yards this season, as it brought his total up to 203 yards through the Vikings' first four games. That's a mere six yards more than Visanthe Shiancoe, who has sort of disappeared since the Dolphins game. But, as Randy Moss learns more of the offense and things open up, I'd be shocked if the numbers for both Harvin AND Shiancoe didn't go way up in the next couple of weeks.

But, after a couple of weeks of domination by Adrian Peterson, the Sprint Game Ball of the Week for this week goes to Percy Harvin. Congratulations to him!

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Thank goodness we have Randy

He really opens those slots for Harvin and Shiancoe.

I wonder how a 4 receiver set would look for us. Berrian (when he’s fast) takes the left cb deep, Randy pulling double coverage on the right, Rice going one-on-one with the left safety and Harvin matched up against a linebacker over the middle. So many options

by StuckInCA on Oct 15, 2010 12:49 AM CDT reply actions

I totally agree with you!

Sadly there are so many options from that condition for Bevell to think about that I think it screws him up from time to time. I’m sure he knows that you just CAN’T run all these “fancy” plays without Brett winding up on his butt often or occasional interceptions. Plus the added factor of you practically HAVE to give Adrian the ball as much is possible. Quite the conundrum for Bevell and Childress with this much talent.

by abba7 on Oct 15, 2010 1:22 AM CDT up reply actions

I'd rather see 3 wide and 1 TE so we have Shank out there over Berrian

"We 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."
-from Bram Stoker's Dracula

by NMVike on Oct 15, 2010 1:26 PM CDT up reply actions