09-24-2018, 05:05 PM
Here are my thoughts on the Bills game:
- Character: Early last week, I wrote, "I think we will learn a lot about the character of the 2018 Vikings on Sunday." My thought on this is we learned the Vikings need to lay with a chip on their shoulder to play well. This, obviously, is not sustainable. And why do they need to play with that type of emotion to dispatch a team with less talent? This brings me around to questioning the coaching. A well coached team should play with consistency -- it should not have great highs and abysmal lows. There are other factors at play here but I do go back to the coaching. One thing also, I think the defensive players have lost confidence in each other doing their jobs. Started last year but has really snowballed at this point. Once you are afraid that someone is not going to do their job, you hedge your own job to cover up the potential mistakes of others.
- Defense: Shouldn't DeFilippo have told Zimmer what has exposed his defense? And shouldn't have Zimmer come up with a correction?
- Defensive Players - One Sentence: Joseph: How come it feels like he is plugging up the middle but the Bills still got 3-4 yards every time they ran up the middle? Rhodes: Does it feel like opposing quarterbacks are no longer afraid of throwing in Rhodes direction? Barr: Zim selected Barr to be a captain this year? Waynes: Does Waynes get injured every time he drops an interception? Kendricks: Feels like he is one of the players trying to compensate for others. Smith/Sendejo: Seems like the Bills made them disappear this week.
- Offense Playing From Behind: This offense, with its poor Oline play, is not built to play from behind. When the other team can just rush the passer without any run discipline, this line is toast. Frankly, having seen this game now, I would never defer the kickoff to the second half. Give me the damn ball.
- Boone: Boone can't be on the field if he can't pass block. The fact he also got as many carries as Murray is also appalling to me.
- Cousins: I think I can safely say that Cousins is a streak quarterback. Very inconsistent from game to game, even half to half. Looked like he had too much adrenaline running through him in the first half. That being said, if you have a streaky quarterback, you need to game plan to get him on a hot streak. Start with easy passes to build his confidence and rhythm.
