Vikes won IN Chicago.. I'll take it.. they are NOT that bad of a team.. They should have beaten Atlanta. And the Vikes always have problems there. Sure it wasn't a route. but NFCN games rarely are. We won. I'm happy.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ TBro said:
I'm a little more optimistic on the number of wins. If Keenum has a repeat performance like the Tampa Bay game against the Packers this Sunday, we can win with our defense at home. I think we can win the rest of our home games and beat Cleveland in London which would put us at 9 wins and in line for a wildcard spot.
how quickly we forget the Keenum that played against the steelers and the lions. I think Case is a likeable guy, but he is way to inconsistent for me to have any confidence in him showing up and winning any game, let alone one against one of the best offenses in the game.
Well it's a good thing he doesn't play defense then.
Quote: @Mike Olson said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ TBro said:
I'm a little more optimistic on the number of wins. If Keenum has a repeat performance like the Tampa Bay game against the Packers this Sunday, we can win with our defense at home. I think we can win the rest of our home games and beat Cleveland in London which would put us at 9 wins and in line for a wildcard spot.
how quickly we forget the Keenum that played against the steelers and the lions. I think Case is a likeable guy, but he is way to inconsistent for me to have any confidence in him showing up and winning any game, let alone one against one of the best offenses in the game.
Well it's a good thing he doesn't play defense then.
meaning what?
if this is in reference to keenum against a better offense... its meaning that its highly likely we are going to give up points to green bays offense and it will on keenum to try and match and better that production.
Quote: @FSUVike said:
@ Jor-El said:
The Bears are horrible, and a decent team would have blown them out. We kept them in the game with stupid penalties and mistakes like Sendejo tipping a pass up for a Bears TD. The Vikings hardly deserved to win.
Why the hell did the coaches have Bradford on the field?? He looked drugged. As a fan, I hoped he would play and perform like he did in week 1 - but I don't watch him in practice every day and hear his medical reports, like they do. Now his knee is probably aggravated. Did Zimmer just pull his macho, "You should toughen up and play through pain" act because he was so desperate to beat one of the worst teams in the league??
Find 5 more wins on the Vikings' schedule. Seriously - I'm not sure if there are 3. We can likely beat the Bears in the week 17 game for 3rd place NFCNorth, and should be favored against the Browns (though London games are unpredictable). Bengals at USB in week 15: Maybe, but Cincinatti has awakened from their bad start. Maybe the Rams cool down and we handle them. Beyond that? Not if we play like we have for the last 16 games and damn sure not if we play like last night.
So by this logic the Steelers are also done, right?
Actually, they're worse off than Minnesota since they actually lost in Chicago.
And Atlanta barely squeaked one out there too, IIRC. Stick a fork in those dirty birds.
Exactly what I was thinking. The Bears should have beat Atlanta and would have if Howard didn't drop that pass at the end of the game. The did beat Pittsburgh, who admittedly have their issues but they still beat them. Any win, especially on the road in the division is a big win.
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
@ Mike Olson said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ TBro said:
I'm a little more optimistic on the number of wins. If Keenum has a repeat performance like the Tampa Bay game against the Packers this Sunday, we can win with our defense at home. I think we can win the rest of our home games and beat Cleveland in London which would put us at 9 wins and in line for a wildcard spot.
how quickly we forget the Keenum that played against the steelers and the lions. I think Case is a likeable guy, but he is way to inconsistent for me to have any confidence in him showing up and winning any game, let alone one against one of the best offenses in the game.
Well it's a good thing he doesn't play defense then.
meaning what?
Read your earlier post again... Mike is just having some fun with you. See if you can catch it...
Quote: @Wetlander said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ Mike Olson said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ TBro said:
I'm a little more optimistic on the number of wins. If Keenum has a repeat performance like the Tampa Bay game against the Packers this Sunday, we can win with our defense at home. I think we can win the rest of our home games and beat Cleveland in London which would put us at 9 wins and in line for a wildcard spot.
how quickly we forget the Keenum that played against the steelers and the lions. I think Case is a likeable guy, but he is way to inconsistent for me to have any confidence in him showing up and winning any game, let alone one against one of the best offenses in the game.
Well it's a good thing he doesn't play defense then.
meaning what?
Read your earlier post again... Mike is just having some fun with you. See if you can catch it...
He just didnt get my meaning, i edited my last post to clarify.
Quote: @FSUVike said:
@ Jor-El said:
The Bears are horrible, and a decent team would have blown them out. We kept them in the game with stupid penalties and mistakes like Sendejo tipping a pass up for a Bears TD. The Vikings hardly deserved to win.
Why the hell did the coaches have Bradford on the field?? He looked drugged. As a fan, I hoped he would play and perform like he did in week 1 - but I don't watch him in practice every day and hear his medical reports, like they do. Now his knee is probably aggravated. Did Zimmer just pull his macho, "You should toughen up and play through pain" act because he was so desperate to beat one of the worst teams in the league??
Find 5 more wins on the Vikings' schedule. Seriously - I'm not sure if there are 3. We can likely beat the Bears in the week 17 game for 3rd place NFCNorth, and should be favored against the Browns (though London games are unpredictable). Bengals at USB in week 15: Maybe, but Cincinatti has awakened from their bad start. Maybe the Rams cool down and we handle them. Beyond that? Not if we play like we have for the last 16 games and damn sure not if we play like last night.
So by this logic the Steelers are also done, right?
Actually, they're worse off than Minnesota since they actually lost in Chicago.
And Atlanta barely squeaked one out there too, IIRC. Stick a fork in those dirty birds.
I'm not commenting on the Bears' past performance or playing any kind of "A beat B who beat C who beat A so B should have beat A" game. I'm commenting on what I saw opposing the Vikings last night: a team that had no decent WRs, massive injury gaps on their OL and back 7, a rookie QB who was starting only his 14th game since High School, and made a ton of mistakes. LAST NIGHT, the Bears were playing crap football and a good football team should have handled them easily, but the Vikings needed to go to the last minute of the game and hope that Forbath wouldn't blow another kick.
Quote: @Jor-El said:
@ FSUVike said:
@ Jor-El said:
The Bears are horrible, and a decent team would have blown them out. We kept them in the game with stupid penalties and mistakes like Sendejo tipping a pass up for a Bears TD. The Vikings hardly deserved to win.
Why the hell did the coaches have Bradford on the field?? He looked drugged. As a fan, I hoped he would play and perform like he did in week 1 - but I don't watch him in practice every day and hear his medical reports, like they do. Now his knee is probably aggravated. Did Zimmer just pull his macho, "You should toughen up and play through pain" act because he was so desperate to beat one of the worst teams in the league??
Find 5 more wins on the Vikings' schedule. Seriously - I'm not sure if there are 3. We can likely beat the Bears in the week 17 game for 3rd place NFCNorth, and should be favored against the Browns (though London games are unpredictable). Bengals at USB in week 15: Maybe, but Cincinatti has awakened from their bad start. Maybe the Rams cool down and we handle them. Beyond that? Not if we play like we have for the last 16 games and damn sure not if we play like last night.
So by this logic the Steelers are also done, right?
Actually, they're worse off than Minnesota since they actually lost in Chicago.
And Atlanta barely squeaked one out there too, IIRC. Stick a fork in those dirty birds.
I'm not commenting on the Bears' past performance or playing any kind of "A beat B who beat C who beat A so B should have beat A" game. I'm commenting on what I saw opposing the Vikings last night: a team that had no decent WRs, massive injury gaps on their OL and back 7, a rookie QB who was starting only his 14th game since High School, and made a ton of mistakes. LAST NIGHT, the Bears were playing crap football and a good football team should have handled them easily, but the Vikings needed to go to the last minute of the game and hope that Forbath wouldn't blow another kick.
on the road, within the division, without a healthy starting QB or RB. A healthy Bradford and Cook and thats a laugher, but not all pieces are in place so you are going to have games that you struggle with. Keenum is not a starter and as such expectations should be tempered.
Here's why I retain some optimism, though I spent the first half formulating new profanity:
as mentioned above, we have two prime-time wins...and the most recent was in a place that's been a likely loss for us, regardless the teams' records;
even with Diggs down, Floyd was immediately better than Treadwell and Jet stepped up...Rudolph reappeared...while Thielen is still Thielen.
Yes, that was a "definitely should win" kinda game, and it was won ugly...but that's hardly an unknown in divisional games.
I agree, a win is a win, which is why I can never bring myself to whine and bitch after we get one.
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