Vikings Fail To Score 50+ Points In Pre-Season Game; Not Serious Threat To Win Division

Howard Cosell.

Your comprehension must not be very good.

While it is true that the Vikings starters stayed in deeper into the game than the Packers, your starters were in for 74 plays, while the Vikings starters were in for 73. The Vikings ran 5 more plays on offense, and they faced 6 fewer plays on defense.

I have to say that the difference in the Vikings and Packers plays is negligible. It does affirm that neither team was sacrificing their starters for the sake of running up the score against backups though.

Camarillo… AND Walker…
who both looked impressive in their short-week debut.

Well actually, Morgan Burnett is going to be our starting strong safety. Buluga has been in a two man battle for the LG spot (though the hip flexor he suffered probably will end up landing him as our back-up left tackle). Mike Neal will probably see a healthy amount of snaps on the defensive line too. He likely won’t start but I’d say he’ll be out there maybe 40-50% of the time.

Minnesota Vikings 12-4 (Lost to Cards, Steelers, Panthers, and Bears)

Which one’d you fail, math or reading comprehension?

I have a feeling this will be the year you steal one… :/

Yes, and yes.
Yes.
What preceived drop off in the passing game? But id there is, yes.
The division ‘should’ be thighter, but the Vikings still ‘are’ the best team in the division.

The same questions were brought up last year. Last season it was him playing with unknown WRs. This year Harvin will be ready to go. They found what they think is the source of his migraines(aka a bulding disk in his neck, maybe) and he said he will be ready to go week one.

Berrian is healthy right now, last year he wasent until the end of the year. Favre will be fine and so will the Vikings as they capture a 3rd NFC North title and hopfully more.

Green Bay’s pass rush is almost non existent even with Clay Matthews. That is why good QBs destroy the GB secondary.

yeah. for the equal amount of dry-humping that goes on re: “Brent’s” crunch-time turnovers by GBP fans.

Then my answer is….yes, yes, and yes.

The one thing I do know is I’m not going to compare some “up and comer” just finishing his 2nd year as a starter and his first season with a winning record and making it to the playoffs to Favre. But I know that’s all packers fans do, so keep on doing what you’re doing.

Let’s see if the kid can win just one game in the playoffs this year.

There was even a pic of the Cards player hitting Rogers in the head as he threw but no mention in the caption. SI dbags.

deep in his own end like Rodgers against the Cardinals.

Chances are if you don’t win the SB your QB will probably have made a costly turnover at some point, regardless of who your QB is. EX. Manning to Porter…

Then went 0-16 in the regular season. Preseason means so little it’s not even funny. The starters barely play, and barely try when they do. The only real thing to take from the preseason is to measure depth because the backups are the only ones who ever put in effort.

I was referring to this article, not the Packers.

AHHHHH! Reading your posts make me want to rip my hair out sometimes!

The pass rush will improve because we’ll be better in our schemes. We’ll be better at disguising our blitzes, which was the case against the Colts, and the players who were with us last year will have a better understanding of the defense. There IS a reason the 3-4 defense is one that is considered hard to transition too. Plus, I’d bet Matthews will be improved, as well as Raji who is playing a more natural position for him.

Speaking of Raji, he’s 330+ lbs. He isn’t too small for NT. He’s got a low center of gravity, quick feet, and great strength. He’s done a good job of taking on double teams so far which is his main job. Neal won’t play NT. He was brought in a pass rushing defensive end.

Haha we have more then one outside backer’s. Matthews, Jones, Poppinga, Zombo, and Chillar (emergency option).

Yes, I’m sure the pass defense will still struggle against better Qb’s but it’ll also force turnovers because of the aggressive nature of the defense.

I’m not sure what your talking about in your reference to the cold months. The cold weather will help out the pass defense. It likely won’t hurt the offense either as Rodgers showed in all of our cold month games last season that he is more then capable in cold weather.

P.S.- You are the LAST person that should be using the word drivel. LMAO.

what drivel!

… but I don’t remember anyone saying the Vikes are done. There’s been some speculation that Favre’s act might cause problems, but it didn’t last year, so…. though I suppose that the Pack love could be interpreted as a conclusion that the Vikes are done. Sure doesn’t seem like the Packers are thinking that way about the Vikings…

let the media take the added pressure off the vikes and put it on a.rodgers shoulders.

Just remember, that was LAST season. This is this season. Last time I checked the Vikings and Packers haven’t played in 2010.

The media IS way over the top, I would have rather them not caught on at all…hard not to when a team is putting up points like they can’t be stopped I guess.

Same song and dance for Bengals fans as well. Exact same routine, just swap “Green Bay” with Baltimore and “Minnesota” with Cincinnati, then tweak some of the words a little bit so it fits better.

I’m tired of hearing how good Baltimore is. I’m tired of hearing how great Joe Flacco is going to be when he hasn’t proved himself yet. I’m tired of hearing how this team is superbowl bound despite it getting back two league-average CBs and losing the only thing that made that secondary anything close to elite for six weeks—Ed Reed. I’m tired of the media ignoring how stacked and loaded the Bengals are. I’m tired of the media trashing them for the slightest errors. I’m tired of the media writing them off as “Same old Bengals” without giving them a second though. I remember an article where La Canfora was writing how the Ravens were Super Bowl bound and completely forgot to even mention the Bengals and last season’s accomplishments.

I’m sorry to vent here, but I feel your pain and you very much understand my plight.

Once the season starts and the Vikes win a couple of games, the press will be all swoony over Favre again, just like last year. I get the irritation with the pro-Packer stuff, but the perception that the Vikes don’t get positive press is just nonsense. Not saying it wasn’t deserved given the year they had, but the press was all over the Vikings last year from like week 3 to the NFC championship game.

When the Vikings do win a Super Bowl, it will be the least-covered victory in the history of the sport,…

On the contrary, I think that the media coverage of the ensuing search for frost in the underworld will be like no other. :)

I think that was your first mistake. You have to label them correctly as the idiocracy.

I like FO, and I know that luck is difficult to account for, but it seems pretty obvious that they’re hedging their bets on predicting records in the hopes that they come within a couple of games of reality for everybody. If they’re that uncomfortable with their model why don’t they just scrap it and stick to analyzing existing data for the teams and individuals? They’d still be worth the subscription price in my opinion.

Putting that many teams in the middle is essentially acknowledging that they can identify the very best and the very worst, but that half the league falls into the “we have no idea how these guys are going to do” category.

But I’m not gonna dispute it either. Yeah, I almost did say Chicago, actually. I actually expect some big strides form Detroit on the offensive side of the ball. The thing that led me to stick with Detroit as the whipping boy for one more year is that I’m not sure they really have much going on defense. They might end up with a few games with scoreboards that look closer to basketball than football.

… the Bears look like crap. They didn’t fix their O-line, their receivers still stink, and Cutler is still playing poorly under pressure. It sounds like he’s gun shy, from the reports I read.

Adding Taylor helps their depth at running back. But they are paying a huge salary to a blocking tight end, while not fixing their offensive line.

They obviously added Peppers which will help their defense, plus if Urlacher stays healthy. But the depth on that team is non-existent. They are average at best, even on defense, and one or two injuries and there is little left.

The worst sign for the Bears has been, from what I’ve read, poor special teams play.

Not having top draft picks for two years, and then messing up in the prior years when they did, tends to leave a team with no depth. They are going to be worse than last year, I predict, even with Peppers.

The Lions, I’m not sure how good they might be, but they added a quality back, two really good defensive lineman, and had a full draft unlike Chicago. I would be surprised if Detroit doesn’t beat out Chicago this year.

I would say, Detroit 7-9, Chicago 5-11.

By the way, Minnesota 12-4, Green Bay 10-6 (they play the Vikings twice!)

The important part was the first half and the team looked great in the first half.

Exactly! No one cares that we put up 59 points. People do care though that we didn’t allow Manning to drive down the field on basically every one of their drives. (Like we did last season against good Qb’s) It was also nice to see us pick off one of his passes, and confuse him many other times. That’s ultimately why we switched the 3-4 defense. Too confuse Qb’s, and force more turnovers! We weren’t very good at it last season, and so far it appears we’ll be better at it this season, which is something we need to be considered a legitimate threat in the playoffs.

Favre may have trouble replicating his career-best 2009 no matter what, but I think that he will perform well enough no matter who is catching the ball.

The running game is another story. Whether it was Vikings starters vs. Rams starters or backups vs. backups, the Vikings should have been able to run all over the Rams in that game, and it didn’t happen. I hope that it proves to mean nothing later.

See that’s the thing though. If you watched the Colts game, they started ALL of their defensive linemen. The Colts also threw MANY blitzes at us, and we appeared to do a better job picking all of them up. They didn’t just rush their four down linemen nearly every play like most teams do in the preseason. And even when they did only rush four guys, the offensive line still held up (which was something it didn’t do early last season).

This is all kind of moot anyway though. The only reason the offensive line was so bad early on last season was because Tauscher was out, and Clifton was out off and on. When they were both back healthy, the offensive line improved immensely. Both of them are healthy this season, and until we see otherwise, there is no reason to believe the offensive line won’t be at least as good as last season.