And Now, For Your Benefit, Scream Therapy and Stream Of Consciousness

Nailed it…….( content removed by DN staff)

Get it all out here.

Alrighty then.

Donovan McNabb might be the worst “aged” QB we’ve ever brought in, and that’s saying alot. What the fuck is our second half defensive gameplan? Is it to allow short passes and easy first downs? Because that shit doesn’t work when the opposing offense is on the ten yard line.

NE losing
Vick breaking his hand + losing
Jets down late in the 4th

Not sure I want to but I’m going.

GOD this hurts….why the hell am I a Vikings fan?

Expect the vikings to loose, that way when they do loose you aren’t pissed and when they win you are mildly surprised. Either way, i will always be a vikes fan, even with 2nd half meltdowns, the BS penalties, the misuse of the best back in the league and all the other drama around the team.

All my friends around the United States call me smart. Right up to the point I’ve been rooting for the Vikings for 50 years. Then they think I must have been banging my head against the wall a few hundred times too many. Oh, and start Webb or Ponder. Webb seems to have a head for coming through in the clutch, unlike McNabb.

Get our money’s worth on the 15 yards.

i swear there are nfl rules and Charles Woodson rules

Watched the whole game, and picked you guys to win in my pool. What it looked like to me was HORRID second half play calling, and bad defensive play calling.

I don’t understand why McNabb was even passing on 1st or 2nd down early. Why not hand it to Peterson? It’s not like he struggled or something in the first half.

And on defense, it seemed like they went more aggressive which seemed silly. The DL was getting pressure rushing 4. That, and a combo of dropping 7 back into coverage was giving Stafford fits in the first half.

So why start with all the blitzes? I mean, the deep TD Johnson caught was basically given to him. I get they’re apparently confident in Cook, but eventually, Johnson is going to win one of those jump balls. It just seems silly to leave him in single coverage when you’re up by so much. It seems like the you’d wanna force them to dink and dunk to get their scores — which was the strategy in the first half.

Sorry, I know I’m a Packers fan and all but it irked me how the Lions fans all seemed to think they were going to win 40-0 or something.

So maybe we do get to see Ponder next week…

For some reason it’s OK with our defensive gameplan to give up 6-yard passing plays.

Those little plays are killing us.

We cannot win in the NFL, ever again, until we decide to contest those. Every other team can “dink and dunk” all day long and score unlimited points.

So let’s get this fixed.

Why the F*** are they using Adrian as a decoy? Why are they throwing 3 yard out passes on first down. Why are they handing the ball to Toby on 4th and 1. Why is McNabb still a Viking. Why Why Why Why……

Why can’t this team play in the second half?

Why can’t our linebackers defend a pass?

Why can’t our coaches coach?

Why Why Why Why Why…do I bother to watch anymore.

But I do….

You possess the very best runner in the game. You come out with a with a QB who clearly his best years are behind him. Yet instead about worrying about the clock, you start out with the shittiest 2nd half script of plays I have ever seen in my freakin life. WTF!!!!!! We….. aaaaahhhhhhh!

I’ll give a hat tip to Chris Cook (and I’ve tended to be a Cook skeptic). He gave up some, but that’ll happen when you get island duty on Megatron. He didn’t look like a typical Vikings corner today: He was making athletic plays on the ball, showing awesome awareness of the ball while still keeping coverage, and he seemed to relish the competitive, mano a mano aspect of it… Johnson finished with almost 9 yards per target, but much of that was on the big play in OT with Griffin covering.

Also, I actually thought the o-line did decent in pass protection. McNabb had a little time today.

Same old, same old, though. FOX showed a graphic indicating the Vikings are something like 1 for 10 on third down in second halves this year. That’s it, isn’t it? The offense doesn’t sustain a thing after halftime, and the defense plays 3/4 of the snaps after half. Vicious cycle between stalled offense and not-quite-good-enough defense (+ fatigue).

Minnesota impressed me today. I really like your d-line, corners, and A.P was a beast. Jared Allen, wow that guy was electric. I’m a big fan of him after that game. Brian Robison was explosive and Greenway made some good plays as well.
I think Minnesota is the best 0-3 team in the league hands down and I believe that Minnesota will finish the season 7-9 or 8-8 ahead of Chicago.

Ponder will be great after he gets the hang of it all. Minnesota is a dangerous team and made a believer outta me. The future is bright in Minnesota.

Look at how many games were decided by 3 points or less today.

SEVEN !

(or Eight if Indy game score remains at 10 to 13)

And I’m a alcoholic Vikings fan.

What’s the difference right..It seems like every game they play, you lose a piece of your soul away.

Ugh!

He wasn’t just decent, he was downright impressive and/or GOOD. Well done, Cook.

You played a great game.

… because he is missing a lot of throws. Too many throws. We are getting amazing production from the running game, we should be winning blow out victories if we could just get average passing from McNabb.

The season is probably over. Let’s start the development of Webb and/or Ponder now. Why the hell not? We aren’t very likely to win the division. Watching McNabb, I sometimes throw up a little into my mouth. Good lord, he’s 0-6 in his last 6 starts.

These Viking games are like a bad M.Night Shyamalan movie… build you up with excitement and then leave you confused, sad, angry at the end.

we didn’t blow the largest lead of the day…NE was up 21-0 … what? no consolation whatsoever? oh well.. thats the best i could come up with

I sort of miss of Scott Linehan….

After much contemplation, I have decided the problem with this team is coaching first and then McNabb coming in at a very close second. Coaching is the only way I can explain the second half meltdowns, it’s not like we are trotting a different 53 on the field after half after all. The only difference is, it seems that our opponets, after time with their coach, come out with adjustments, and we come out flat and vanilla. As much as I want to like Fraizer, I think I might have given him too much love when he was hired. It could have just been out of the pure ecstasy of Chilly being gone. But then again, maybe I’m expecting too much, we did have the shortened off season, and we replaced not only the head coach, but our OC, and DC. McNabb is just blah, actually lower than blah. The only connection he seems to have with a Viking is Michael Jenkins. All his other throws leave his recievers making acrobatic catches or it’s so low that the receivers have absolutely no way of making plays. Regardless of all this I am a Vikings fan, here’s to 13-3. SKOL VIKINGS!

This team is oviously competitive…I mean they’re not getting blown out. Well maybe in the second quarter. The first week they lost by 7 points. The second week they lost by 4 points. Today they lost by 3 in OT. People forget that this is a 60 minute game. Every week NFL teams lose a lead that they had obtained from the first half. Give these guy’s a break. Yeah blowing a twenty point lead is not a good thing but look at the Lions, they didnt score the entire first half. If the the lions would have lost there fans would say oh we’ve got to get going in the first half. The playing calling sucks, bench Stafford,the coachs suck, blah, blah, blah…
I tell ya it’s a hell of alot better to work out the kinks in the beggining of the season then to fold up like a Chinese card table at the end of the season. I don’t like to make excuse’s for this team, but if you look at it logically, the Vikings have a new head coach, a new OC and a new quarterback. Our last three opponents all have had their systems in place for a few years and we still gave them a run for their money. The Vikings could easily be 3 and 0 if one or two plays went their way in the forth quarter. I tell you knowing the Vikings this is probably the best case senerio being 0 and 3 at this point. Becuase if they we’re 3 and 0 they would get all cocky and not work as hard to get better. All they have to do is get better in the second half of the game and they can get on to winning, but that first win is important and I bet when this team gets a taste of winning they’ll be a dam good football team. I think the Defense is fantastic. It’s the offense that can’t substain a drive in the second half which puts the defense out on the field without a rest for most of the second half. I don’t care how good your defense is, if your offense goes 3 and out just about everytime they have the ball in the second half your not going to win in this league, hell all the offense had to do to win the game is have one long drive for a touchdown in then second half and they win, simple as that they Don’t need a quarterback change in fact Mcnabb did a good job getting us down field in the last two minutes to tie the game. All signs are that this offense is learning on the job and with the lockout and a whole new offensive system this is what we should expect and in saying that I predict that this offense does get better.They’re not that far from obtaining that as the season progress’s if they’re scoring around 20 points a game now then there’s no reason why they can’t score 30 points a game as they mature as a unit. So keep the frigin faith purple fans we still got 13 games left, were three games out of first place…And to all the other football teams and fans out there 3-0 can easily turn into 3 and 13…Kansas city here we come…