Stock Market Report, Week 6

Man, I love reading these stock market reports! Keep them coming.

I would have to agree with Ragnar though. I think that you might want a to place a sell on Chilly and Bevell. Our O line needs to step up a bit more as well in pass protection, but the major thing is our back needs to not release as quickly as they are. Count to three then release out as a route runner. We are getting hammered on delayed blitzes because the backs just aren’t good enough to spot it. Oh and how about K-Sauce in the back field yesterday? Going back to fullback for a while?

I was out of town for the day, didn’t get a chance to see it, so hopefully I can d/l it tonight :)

So glad to have EJ back! Makes a big difference in the quality fo our defense. Also looking forward to Chris Cook coming back as Lito is not even college caliber.

Favre definitely looks afraid to get hit, and maybe rightfully so. Our blocking on blitz pickups definitely shows how much we miss Chester. Wonder why we don’t try and swing a trade for Westbrook since SF isn’t using him and he is beginning to let everyone know he isn’t happy. I realize we aren’t going to give away much since it would be a 11 game trade, but why not the 7th rounder we picked up from NE in the Moss trade. 7th rounders are simply practice squad players and SF isn’t using Westbrook anyway.

Sell: Bernard. Geez! What a horrible penalty that almost killed us. Very surprised Chilly didn’t rip him off the field.

Buy: Greg “Caramello”. Why doesn’t this guy get more plays on offense? No fricken creativity. Put Percy in the backfield (which I love) and then put Caramello in the slot. along with Moss and BB. How would defenses play this???? They would definitely have to play 2 men deep for the risk of BB and Moss and Caramello and Percy then have single coverage, one of which is a LB.

We’re only a game and a half out of the top seed for the NFC playoffs right now, and only one back in the loss column. It’s amazing that every team in the conference has at least two losses already. Hooray parity! Hooray beer!

First, let me say I think you made a serious omission leaving Kluwe off the buy or “sound investments” lists. that final punt alone should earn him that. Punters rarely stand out in a game, we should not fail to notice when they do.

Jim Kleinsasser, TE: He’s not pretty and he’s not silky smooth, but Jim Kleinsasser is 270 pounds of moving badass. He’s more like a pissed off Hippo who has had his territory invaded, and someone is going to pay. He’s been a great role player for the Vikings who has never sought the spotlight, and he’s made more clutch catches for the Vikings in five games than he did all of last season.

Yeah, that dump he took from favre when he got rushed late in the fourth on a 3rd down, then ran for a first, may not have resulted in a TD, but it moved the chains and ate up more clock (I think that was the circumstance?) Of the plays that were not turnovers or scores, that was a key one.

Regarding Longwell, I also like his reliability, but one thing I wish we could see still is a little more depth on kickoffs.

Regarding AD, I’m surprised you made him a :buy." I thought of him more as a sound investment. He had decent runs, not really much for great ones though, and the fumble (which is on him, I think we all agree, except the scorekeeper) kinda negated any of the “great” there was, leaving us with “ok to good” IMO.

Regarding Chester, I would like to be glad to see every finally come around to my POV in the spring that his loss was a major impact — it was equivalent to losing a starter the caliber of Sidney, not merely a “backup” — which most people pish-poshed, except unfortunately the only way I got to be proven right was by things going so much worse on third down this year (last year, as I said in spring, we were either #2 or #3 in league in converting 3rd downs). I would have rather been proven wrong than right, but the silver lining is, hopefully now some folks give the man more credit than they had before. The guy doesn’t toot his own horn, but he has a very valuable horn to toot if he chose to.

As I watched the God-awful Lito Sheppard during the game yesterday, I could have sworn that Fred Smoot was back in purple. How does he manage to ALWAYS be at least 2-3 steps behind the receiver? Simply dreadful.

…and don’t let it slip away.

Kleinsasser: This guy is better than Tahi. The coaches must consider Tahi the best and/or fastest run blocking FB in the game in order to justify so much more playing time than Kleinsasser, who is more versatile and paid over $3M, so he may as well see more time on the field.

Also sell: Childress and Bevell’s offensive plan. Even with Favre (now with Moss) having a great day with a must-win game on the line, they predictably ran on 1st and 2nd downs and threw on 3rd downs. AP managed only 3.0 ypc, and Favre was only allowed to attempt 19 passes? Especially with the Dallas D getting flagged in the secondary so often?

I’m not on the Gerhart bandwagon, but he did gain 4 yards the only time he was called upon to do anything. There really weren’t many 3rd down back situations in this game.

As for .38 Special, sure they were cheesy, but at least the guitar solo was very musical.

Just wondering because it is my understanding that he has been blocking for Favre all the time and hence the lack of catches.

Madieu Williams :He made several key tackles yesterday.

Special teams in the second half: Percy’s KOR and 2 great punts by Kluwe and subsequent coverage sealed the deal yesterday.

Kluwe not given a “blue chip,” or at least a strong “buy” after last night. that was a great performance by a punter. he pinned Dallas deep all day long. and especially pinning them at the 4 when we really needed it. helped our defence by not giving dallas short fields to work with and probably saved us at least 1 or two field goals by dallas that could have changed the whole complexity of the game.

Chad Greenway
How about the alligator arms he caused on that 3rd down play that forced Dallas to punt with 2:42 left in the game?

This is a little off topic Ted but you did make a reference to Winston Churchill. There is a website called “Badass of the Week” – you really should check that out. – One chapter is devoted to Churchill and it is one of the most hilarious reads ever- I think you’d enjoy it. – Bring on the Pack!

He won us the game yesterday!

Other than that, really good stuff here… I would definitely say our defensive team’s tackles yesterday were easily sound investments.

Mr. Glover, aren’t you just full of surprises referencing a chick flick :) Nice post. I was so surprised and amused by your description of Kleinsasser as a pissed off hippo that I almost choked on my Dr. Pepper.

Definitely think Kluwe should have made it to the Buy section of the report. His directional kicking and hang-time helped the Vikings pin the Cowboys into crap-tastic field position pretty consistently. But, overall, special teams did a good job yesterday.

It’s been bugging me since Sunday….who was that little scat-back we used to employ back in the late 90’s who always seemed to make a third down conversion whether lined up in the backfield or as a sneaky little slot guy…

I want to say David Palmer but that doesn’t sound right. Anyway, that’s what Percy reminded me of on Sunday. If teams are just going to house-blitz us on third down, and our RB’s can’t pick them up…we have to change our game plan to allow for more screens and swing passes in a create way. Good things happen when Percy touches the ball. Gerhart and Young just seem to either run right into a pile, or totally miss their assignments.

Case in point: 3rd down, blitz coming, Albert completely mis-identifies who he is supposed to block, instead panicking and releasing past the line of scrimmage while his guy wraps Brett up. I wish I had a clip, it was so obvious he was lost on the play.

I dig these Stock Reports, always a good read.
EJ is a Beast! Skol

I really liked the way Bevell took it rather easy Sunday, so that we did not have to hear Keith Brooking whining about those mean old Vikings running up the score on some poor, defenseless team from Dallas. Hope Keith truly enjoyed the display of hospitality and good sportsmanship afforded him this time around and that he feels much better now.

You really have to hand it to them there Cowboys, who despite last week’s penalty still thought they were playing in the world leap frog championships.

I have to agree. You know your kicker is automatic when he trots out for a 40+ yard field goal and you find yourself thinking “I hope they don’t block it”. Longwell is as solid a kicker as there is in the game, especially these last two years of terrible kicking around the league.

“He’s more like a pissed off Hippo who has had his territory invaded, and someone is going to pay.”

That right there alone was worth the price of admission. Love getting these reports. Keep up the great work.

BLUE CHIP: Chris Kluwe, P: Have you ever been in a situation at work when you do something really, really dumb, and it looks like it the boss is going to find out and fire you for it? Like, for example, you write a manifesto on how lecherous the sports agent business is, and you put your 3 AM tome in everybody’s mailbox at the hotel your staying at? But then your best friend is the first one up, sees what a dumbass you were and gets every single copy of your screed and shreds it before anyone else can read it? (Yeah, didn’t happen in the movie, but follow me here).

That’s Chris Kluwe. The offense writes some diatribe on how cool it is not to be able to move the ball, and then puts in in the mailbox of the defense. If that was the end of it, the offense would be fired, would miss out on an awesome threesome potential with a smoking hot redhead. and end up with a dumpy version of Renee Zelwiger while having to play Dad to a kid that’s got dwarfism and will never amount to anything in sports because he’s the future Mayor of Munchkinland. You become an old, bitter, alcoholic, and your stepson hates you because you never accepted him for who he is.

But Kluwe’s there to flip the field position for you, and it’s all good. You don’t get fired, your redhead freak of a girlfriend likes the experimentation with another chick so much it becomes a regular thing in your life, and you become the most powerful sports agent in the world.

All because of Chris Kluwe.