Pre Season Week 3 Stock Market Report

Plagarism!!!!

I totally beat you to the “…in…a….dome” line!

I’m gonna sue! :)

About half of your post is damn near same as what I posted!

lol……just glad to see great minds thinking alike.

cheers!

You are more optimistic then me regarding the O-Line. I assume Sullivan will help things gel but that IS an assumption. I would rather see it for myself. Also, I think our Safety play still needs improvement. I can see these boys giving up big plays. Still, all-in-all the pieces are coming together, which I guess is as much as we can expect given the flea-circus camp/pre-season. There are several teams that are better synch’d and polished at this point (New Orleans, Green Bay, etc.), so here’s hoping we use the next two weeks well.

Otherwise… I like everything about these columns Ted; the format, the timeliness, the thoroughness, and your take. Thanks for the effort!

Tyrell Johnson was the starter at strong safety.

Herrera got the start at center over Cooper. DeGeare started at right guard.

Adrian Peterson’s touchdown run was not only a great run, it started with some great blocking. The right side of the line demolished the Seahwks’ defense. Javon Walker made a key block, too.

Chris Clark did not play. It appears that Patrick Brown is in the lead for the backup left tackle roster spot.

Gopher alumnus Marcus Sherels got into the game and made an interception. Yes, a Viking made an interception. It really happened. Sherels has a chance to hang on with the Vikings, at the least with the practice squad.

Between Reynaud and Asher Allen, the Vikings averaged 20.3 yards per punt return.

The Vikings won the time of possession battle: 37:08 to 22:52.

The Vikings’s defense limited the Seahawks to converting on third down only 2 out 15 times (13%). On the other hand, the Seahawks were 3 for 3 on 4th down conversion attempts.

Over on NFL.com there are all the stats.

It could happen. I believe this is on the table.

Loved them.

I think our final 53 man roster will include somebody that is not in Minnesota now. We often pick up a player released by other teams after the final cut and before practice squads are re-signed. Who that might actually be is anybody’s guess.

Per our buddy Judd Zulgad.

[Chris] Cook injured his right knee early in the second half and did not return. He did some light jogging on the sideline and then had an ice bag wrap on his knee.

“Just a little ding,” he said.

• Rookie running back Toby Gerhart injured his right knee in the third quarter. Gerhart spent the rest of the game on the sideline with a wrap on his knee. “It got bent backward a little bit underneath the pile,” he said. “Just a little precautionary.”

• Defensive tackle Jimmy Kennedy did not play because of an undisclosed injury.

I hope that all of those are just really, really minor dings and not impacting on the season.

He was only thrown 2 catchable balls, and one went for a touchdown. And from his other “drops” it looks like he is in great shape. Lets just try to get him the ball more, and if we do that i think that he can become the number one wide receiver.

… but it struck me that apart from the INTs, the Vikings were moving the ball.

What is the deal with Sullivan? Is he still hurt or no longer our starting center? The unsettled nature of the O-line is starting to worry me more than the wide receiver position.

I didn’t get to see last night’s game. (I can’t believe I got to see the first two).

It’s better to get those interceptions out of Favre’s system now before the games start counting.

I’m curious about one thing. Unless I glossed over it, I didn’t see one word written about Joe Webb. Didn’t he pass for a touchdown last night?

Except that I found int interesting that Chilly basically left Javon in there until he could make some catches, which took him well into the fourth Q (in fact I think he played the entire game)? Probably a smart move, get him feeling some stuff again, and confirming he can play a whole game (I’m guessing there may be some conditioning questions, or something along that line?) If he hadn’t been in there that long, we would be a lot less sure what to think of him.

And I continue to find myself surprisingly more apprehensive than most others about Favre. I don’t know why, I just had a really good vibe about how he’d fit last year (and proclaimed it here, in the face of much skepticism), while this year it’s flipped, I just have a gut feeling he’s not all there mentally and/or physically. Nothing in the game yesterday changed that impression. But still time to change though.

Oh, yeah, and one other thing I want to add:

enjoy some classic rock by one of the better bands of my generation

Groan.

Our generation, unfortunately.

Groan.

Thanks Ted. (If the other economy were not such a sad story currently, I’d love your report.)

Let’s not get confused about success. When your dad has founded Motown, you can get Michael Jackson to sing backup for you, and they’ll find a catchy name for you, taken from one of the guys who once did covers for the Saturday Evening Post who was not named Wyeth or Leyendecker.

Yes, my fellow Americans, this was a test. It was only a test. The purpose of a test is to find out what works and what does not. That makes this a successful test. They did all of the above, which is the correct answer. There was no intention by the coaching staff to show Sean how we really intend to play football on September 9th. During the game, some exciting thoughts occurred to me, but my lips are sealed.

As Favre said during the week, “We’ve got our work cut out for us.” That metaphor may be misinterpreted as indicating we hate to sew. It really says the pieces have all been cut out for us, and now we need to attach them in a manner that gets us airborne, as in sreaming eagles out of Fort Campbell or a jazz band very far north of Bourbon Street.

We could make such beautiful music together, as some gal named Gumm from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, might say.

Interceptions:

Part One: When you are running through a crowd, it it still important to catch the ball with your hands, not your shoulder pad, a thing which likes to lob up easy ones to defenders who can run much faster than Grandpa Favre ever could.

Part Two: Favre successfully proves that Camarillo is not as fast as Sidney or Javon, and will make note of this for future reference. He thereby learned something useful.

Camarillo Yes, the guy is covered with fly paper and knows exactly where a good receiver needs to be and will move the chains, but he’s never going to win a footrace with Percy Harvin. (Yes, Virginia, Normal Rockwell’s middle name was Perceval!) P.S.: Greg can block downfield, and when your running back is a guy named All Day, that is a valuable asset.

Percy Harvin It’s so nice to have you back where you belong. (Sounds like some guy from New Orleans? Oh, well.)

O-line If Sully is out, Herrera makes a pretty good center, and DeGeare can move in at guard. Size isn’t everything, but if your intent is to knock people out of the way and open running lanes, it sure doesn’t hurt.

I only have one burning question. Why isn’t Steve Perry in the Rock and Roll HOF? (Then of course, when you were born in Cleveland and live near Frisco, you worry about silly things like that.)

This guy reminds me of the type of receiver that Bob Grim and Chris Walsh (for all you old-timers out there) were for the Vikes when they played. Neither one was blazing fast but they both were tough, had great hands, and had the uncanny knack for being open when it was needed most.

Rookies: Cook, Gerhert, and Degeare will make the active roster replacing Paymah, Taylor, and Hicks.
D’imperio showed a lot of improvement from week 1 to week 3, shows he has a lot of upside and brings more to the table than Tahi at FB.
Shuler could actually be replacing Dugan ( who has dropped to many passes now in preseason), Shuler has shown soft hands and good blocking skills when he was in. I thought Mills would be the odd TE out but he has made plays. If not he definitely gets signed to the PS if someone doesn’t snatch him up.
Griffen, where is he? He has next game to show something or else he might not make the team. He has been out played by all the DE’s and I don’t know if he’ll make it to the practice squad.
We finally actually had a Triplett sighting, he’s another that has to impress and impress hard or he PS material.
Last but not least Webb, he should make the roster question is, who gets the axe? Do we trade TJ or Sage now while we still can. He is oozing with potential and we need to find ways to get him on the field.