Strib: Renaissance Sam

[supafreak84]

What I've heard this week on national radio:

• Vikings are frauds
  
• Darnold is going to 'Darnold'
  
• Vikings D is smoke and mirrors, gimmicky
  
• McVay will outcoach KOC
  
• Stafford is a Hall of Famer and will torch Minnesota's secondary
  

So yeah.....

Yes I've heard repeatedly on NFL Radio this week that Matt Stafford is going to pick this Flores defense apart. We'll see...

I think the game moving to Arizona is advantage to us as I think Viking fans are going to flood that place and totally flip it from a road game in Los Angeles to a home game in Arizona

[MaroonBells]

Yes I've heard repeatedly on NFL Radio this week that Matt Stafford is going to pick this Flores defense apart. We'll see...

I think the game moving to Arizona is advantage to us as I think Viking fans are going to flood that place and totally flip it from a road game in Los Angeles to a home game in Arizona

I think there will be a lot more Viking fans than most road games, but if I remember right, like 85% of the available tickets went to Rams fans.

[supafreak84]

I think there will be a lot more Viking fans than most road games, but if I remember right, like 85% of the available tickets went to Rams fans.

Well if that's the case, hopefully those LA fans stick with the mantra of being fareweather and fickle and sell their tickets. Hoping for a purple wave in Arizona Monday night

[purplefaithful]

Not surprising. After last week, all the Sam doubters felt justified. I have hard time believing he'll come out cold again though. He had three bad games in 17, two of which they won (Jets, Jags). But last week was too big for him. Monday might be too. 

Vikings defense IS kinda gimmicky. If they don't cause confusion resulting in turnovers or big plays, most offenses can move the ball on them pretty easily, especially with an experienced QB and a good RB, both of which the Rams have. Vikings just don't have the studs at CB and IDL to play well without turnovers. 

Stafford sure looked like a HOFQB in the last game. Flores says that Puka returning caught them by surprise and they won't be surprised this time. 

The "bottom" line: Rams are bottom 10 against the run and bottom 10 against the pass. If Sam's on target, Vikings should win. But this is not a team they can make mistakes against. This might be the game I thought the Lions game would be: 40-30.

Agree, more cerebral vs smash mouth/stout D. It certainly dictates the chess moves Flores can or cant make. 

Yet they are remarkably stout vs run. 

Go figure..

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I think there will be a lot more Viking fans than most road games, but if I remember right, like 85% of the available tickets went to Rams fans.

Rams sold 52k to that game...So yah, it'll be more like Sofi than USB 

Hats off to the Rams fans for traveling and staying engaged in spite of whats going on.