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12-03-2018, 03:04 AM

Is the not winning a game against a team with a winning record, really that surprising?

Kirk Cousins is now 4-23 in his career against teams with a winning record

12-03-2018, 03:12 AM

OL is bad. CBs are injured. Cousins not seeing the field, accuracy is off and no internal clock. Coaches game plan OK but don't adjust during the game while our opponents do. That's all.

12-03-2018, 03:15 AM

Quote: @minny65 said:
To be honest, I fully expected a lose today

12-03-2018, 11:26 AM

Quote: @1VikesFan said:
Outcoached, outplayed. Not surprising from a very average, albeit highly paid team.

Yeah, we've handed out a lot of 10 mil a year type deals lately. The team looks like a Ferrari but sputters around like a Yugo at times. I'd put that squarely on Zimmer.

12-03-2018, 01:50 PM

Quote: @pumpf said:
I think he's just covering for the team. Or maybe he's covering for Flip. Or both. Either way, I'm not sure I put too much stock into any coach's post-game comments.

I thought the same Pumpf.

12-03-2018, 02:10 PM

Quote: @MarkSP18 said:
It was worse when you have two weeks to prepare for the Bears.

That's exactly what I thought. 2 weeks to prepare for a rival you play twice a year, watch tons of game film on them due to common opponents, and then you go out and $hit the bed in terms of a gameplan.

I can understand getting schooled by the Pats at home, they make everybody look bad and Belichik's as good as it gets. But to get schooled by Nagy and the damn Bears coming off a bye with 2 weeks to prepare? That's far more concerning to me, and I'm a big fan of Zimmer.

12-03-2018, 02:41 PM

Also, Erin Andrews (I think, might have been the other sideliner) said after halftime that she talked to Zimmer and he said his team "had to get over their jitters".
Seriously? Are the Vikings still playing some kind of, "Wow, we're so young and we can't believe we're on same the field with Tom Brady" BS?? The core of this team is all vets with 4+ years of experience, 11 of our starters have been to a Pro Bowl, and they still don't know how to prepare - in the 12th game of a season?? Our HC has been in the NFL since Brady was born but doesn't know how to mentally prepare his team?

12-03-2018, 02:54 PM

Quote: @Al (The Lochstar) Heurung said:
After tonight, seeing how a top-tier team still can cut us up like a Christmas cheese-log... Plus our injuries always decimate one single crucial section of our O or D... the best I can hope for is a miracle gelling so we can at least remain Kings of the North if not make a playoff run. Likely? No. But still wanna be Kings of the North. The Bears have the horseshoe this year, but as we learned with Case, you can't count on that. We may still at least pull off the division.

Oh, forget the division. When you're trailing by 2 games with 5 to go, you MUST win when the team you're chasing (Chicago) gets upset by a 3-win team.
I get it, the Patriots are really tough, anywhere, and at home, and in December. But at the beginning of the 3rd quarter, the Vikings were tied and had been playing them evenly. At that point, the game was winnable and they seemed to be past their "jitters". But our vaunted defense collapsed.
Zimmer can beat teams with losing records (usually, though not always). He doesn't beat winning teams, so maybe we should hope for a collapse the rest of the way so he can have a nice easy schedule next year.

12-03-2018, 03:12 PM

Zimmer's act will wear thin if the Vikes tank the rest of the season. If Minnesota is again mediocre in 2019, I can see Zimmer getting canned. He'll definitely get another year no matter how this year ends up and deserves to. But all bets are off if the team underperforms again next season.

12-03-2018, 03:30 PM

Quote: @StickyBun said:
Zimmer's act will wear thin if the Vikes tank the rest of the season. If Minnesota is again mediocre in 2019, I can see Zimmer getting canned. He'll definitely get another year no matter how this year ends up and deserves to. But all bets are off if the team underperforms again next season.

But they will win 11 games in 2019 with a 3rd-place schedule, and get Zimmer another year. Not sure we can get GB or Detroit to catch us now, though.
(For the record, because some people have been POed when I said in the past they may as well tank - it's sarcasm.)