The Official Ask Gang Green Nation Thread

…this sign of sportmanship happens often..but i , for one, don’t get it..

why would one wish their opponent “good luck” ?? at least qualify it with something like " well, i hope we kill you..but after that, here’s wishing you well for the rest of the season"…or something

just sayin’

The way the Jets usually use Revis against elite receivers is to have him follow said receiver around all game, whether he goes left, right, or into the slot. Even without Revis since the second half of Week 2, Rex Ryan blitzes a ton. You’ll see blitzes from every angle and every guy imaginable. Last year, the coverage held more often than not when the other team picked up the blitz. It hasn’t been the same this year. Revis’ return will change that.

I don’t think we’ll see much of a change in philosophy with Peterson in the backfield. The Jets have the league’s fourth ranked run defense. Their guys up front are winning their matchups. They shut down Ray Rice in the opener. Rice is no Peterson, though.

To kind of touch on both of your points, the Jets struggle against the screen because of their attacking style. Screens to Peterson are scary.

There a ways we can cover you offensive weapons, of course everyone won’t be shut down but you’re missing one important point. Your receiver average 9.5 yards per catch I believe. The lowest average in the NFL. With Moss coming in he’ll open up some opportunities but with that argument you forget another factor, what if your offensive line and Favre continue playing little little leaguers? If Favre is getting pressured non stop and can’t make any smart throw because he’s running for his life what good will your receivers do? As a Jets fan I know just as well as you do that Favre is fully capable of hurling jump balls where anyone can come down with the catch. If Favre plays like garbage what will all your weapons do then?

Have you seen a Green Bay, Detroit or Chicago game this year?

If you have, then you won’t wonder why we think we are the favorites to win the division.

The Packers have absolutely no running game, and their offensive line is still about as bad as it was last year. They do have good, aging, cornerbacks. But with a legitimate deep threat, and some really good supporting receivers, they will have their hands full.

The Lions are improving, but they are nowhere near where they need to be in order to be a contender.

The Bears… Well, the Bears are only a few games away from imploding. They still have no receivers, the O-line is terrible and their defense is a shadow of what it was 5years ago. Not to mention the fact that Lovie Smith is panicking and starting to bench starters and playing the roster-shuffle.

We started against the Super Bowl Champions, and then went to a much improved Dolphins team and lost both games by a very close margin. We were in position to win both games, but with a rusty Favre and no Sidney, we had a hard time closing the deal.

Favre was rusty for the first few games last year as well, but we were lucky enough to play the Lions and the Browns, which is a major reason we won those first two games.

To summarize, the Vikings have the best defense in the division maybe even in the NFC), have some very talented weapons on the offensive side of the ball, and despite the 1-2 start are probably in the best position to take the division.

i think we have the right to be confident in our team that had all 22 starters return. And 1 1/2 games can be turned real quick, prime example being the bears. They went into the medowlands unbeaten and got absolutely raped by a win less team. Also you have on the other hand where the pack almost got beat by the lions, at home. And for moss, he isn’t a player that is going to be running super complex routes, he is a deep threat. And that was what Sidney was, randy is a player that Favre needs. A guy that can simply go up and get it, and that is going to take a lot less time to develop a rhythm vs a straight route running guy like Percy or Welker. And your comment related to the Packers CB, they are good, but with all the injury’s (morgan burnett and nick barnet) it is going to be difficult to compensate especially when you have a player like moss and a speedster like harvin in the inside. Also on the note of our WR’s, now that we have somebody to take Rice’s place, we can slide BB and Percy back into their natural positions. And lastly, GB is 3 weeks away and we will see them again when Rice is healthy.

We know what our team is, michael. We know that we sent 12 guys to the Pro Bowl earlier this year, and all 12 of those guys are still on the roster, and only one of them is injured. And now we have Moss back as well. Sure, the Vikings have dropped a couple of games that they should have slide through, but this is the NFL, ‘any given Sunday’ and all that. We know what issues the Vikings have, and believe me, we’re tough as nails on our own team. We may drink the Purple kool aide from the Gjallerhorn, but we have lots of skeptics here who keep the fan-ship on an even keel.

A lot of us still believe that the Minnesota Vikings are the best team in the NFL, this year, just like they were, last year. They just need to get into sync again, and guess what? Just your luck, it looks to me like that’s going to happen on Monday :)

We were looking fat in the WR corps back in July, but then Rice went into surgery, Jaymar Johnson got injured, Harvin started having migraine issues, and everything was off-kilter with Favre coming in late as usual. Then the Favre-bashing began, the media talking about how old he is, look at all those interceptions, the old man has to start going down sometime, maybe this is the year. Maybe it is… but I don’t think it’s started yet.

4 of those 6 interceptions that Favre’s had went off the hands or torso of the intended receiver, they get logged to Favre despite the fact that he hit his targets. One of those interceptions came because he was hit as he was throwing. That leaves us with one INT which was truly, 100%, Favre’s fault. I can live with that, and I don’t think that indicates that he’s trending down. On the contrary, I think he’s going to surprise his naysayers this year. Again.

For the WR corps, Moss really is the ‘missing piece’ of the puzzle. He’ll stretch the opposing D (and that’d be your guys, come Monday), making it difficult for them to stack the box again Peterson. Remember Peterson? If not, he’ll remind you that paying too much attention to Moss is a mistake. Moss is experienced enough that I think he’ll make an immediate impact with Favre throwing to him. He may not know the whole play book, but he’ll have enough down to force coverage to focus on him. That’s when Harvin will move underneath, the doctors say they think they’ll get his migraines under control at last. We also have Shanko, our TE threat, and arguably Favre’s favorite target. He can also throw to Peterson, to Gerhart, and even to Albert Young. Gerhart’s our young and upcomming rook RB. What’s he like? Think Adrian Peterson with a little less strength but better footwork. Where AP plows defenders over, Gerhart is more likely to sidestep them, then carry 3 or 4 guys on his back as he grinds out the last few yards. Gerhart was a Heismann runner up, I think he’ll turn out alright.

On the defensive side, we have the #2 D in the NFL in terms of holding the opposition to the fewest points. Only the Steelers have done better, and they’re AFC, not NFC. And the Vikings did that despite having two of their main corners on IR, Griffen and Cook. They returned in week 3 and are both still getting up to speed. Cook, our 1st round draft pick this year, did well enough to go toe-to-toe with Calvin Johnson, holding Megatron down to 56 yards. That ain’t shabby for a rook. And our secondary was our weak point. The D-line is still a run-stopping machine and that machine is firing on all cylinders. In fact, to be honest, it was really the D that won the game against the Lions, giving our sputtering offense plenty of second-chances.

The special teams is solid on kick and punt coverage (although we have issues on punt returns if Bernard Berrian is attempting to field them), and the booters are both excellent. If there’s a weakness there, it’s that Longwell can’t consistently put the ball in the end-zone on kick-offs, but he gets close enough that we can usually make the stop at around the 20.

…the palpable increase in swagger in vikes fans posts from just a few days ago?!? b4 we were commiserating about the very real possibility of 1-3 in the next 4 tough games.. now, 4-0 is a possibility…

there can be no curtailing the crowing until at least monday nite…and hopefully long afterward as well..like ,say mid feb or so?

We saw what these guys could do last year. We started the season with a lot of those guys injured, but almost all are back that will be back now (only Sidney Rice now, plus of course Chester Taylor).

We saw what these guys are capable of, only 9 months ago. Did you see them play last year? If you did, how can you discount that we can’t get back to that form again?

By the way, for the record I don’t consider us the favorites. I’ve always had this game penciled in as one of the more likely losses for the year, and nothing has changed that. Yes, we can (and hopefully will!) win, but … I’m not calling us favorites.

For that matter, who here IS saying we are the favorites? Are you putting words in our collective mouths?

I believe we’re 4th in the league at stopping the run. Kris Jenkins went down and he’s out for the season but we went half of last year without him as well so we’re just about the same.

But it takes 24 hours for GGN to let us post.

In case you missed my follow ups to how classy your fans behave, I read some comments.
Calling Minnesotans frozen tundra heads
Promoting the chant Nuts-Nuts – Nuts!
Advocating making this BF accusations more newsworthy-to give your idiots a reason to turn the game into a foolish side show of retarded signs,

This trollers was here last night. So I’ll say it again. I hate any new York team. You are spoiled+ because your franchises have the market tio buy titles not build them..
You claimed how you were all so classy on GGB I read comments. Same nasty arrogant attitudes as most of us in FL wish we could put on a bus North on 95
Yah, I bet your “friendly” NY crowd would be soooclassy-I’ve read their “classy”

call us anything else, but don’t lump us with the ass of society – Philadelphians! hehehehehe

good game tonight, your guys played hard. i am not an arrogant NYer – although you seem like a crotchety old Floridian. anger management my man!

Good luck next week….

Heck, Moss had to push off just to get separation on that TD pass.