Klint DeFlippio?

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Sam Ekstrom

@SamEkstrom

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67 snaps for the #Vikings WR3, 12 for the TE2. What team is this? (I suppose a team that doesn’t trust the backup tight ends right now.)

This is not who we are.

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Kubiak is calling plays for the first time. He is learning as he goes. I am not at all confident in this offense. The OL is brutal. They better not have that many penalties again. It's absolutely embarrassing.

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There are so many places to look to assign blame. I don't even know where to start. 

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@MaroonBells said:
There are so many places to look to assign blame. I don't even know where to start. 

At the top - HC

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Despite the wonky offensive play calling, its just almost impossible to overcome those offensive penalties. They looked rough out there often and yet were honestly a Cook fumble away from stealing it (and did he fumble?? I don't think he did). 

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@StickyBun said:
Despite the wonky offensive play calling, its just almost impossible to overcome those offensive penalties. They looked rough out there often and yet were honestly a Cook fumble away from stealing it (and did he fumble?? I don't think he did). 

He did not. His butt was on the ground, but the idiot refs apparently didnt see enough to overturn. Luckily in the first half my wife and I were eating lunch in a public place or I would have been yelling constantly with the amount of penalties. It was such an embarrassment

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@minny65 said:

@MaroonBells said:
There are so many places to look to assign blame. I don't even know where to start. 

At the top - HC

Don't disagree. Poor game prep is probably the biggest (again) and that blame ultimately resides with the HC. Just hoping and praying this terrible prep and execution on both sides of the ball doesn't go through the first six games like it did last year. 

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@StickyBun said:
Despite the wonky offensive play calling, its just almost impossible to overcome those offensive penalties. They looked rough out there often and yet were honestly a Cook fumble away from stealing it (and did he fumble?? I don't think he did). 

He was down but it doesn't matter, they shot themselves in the foot repeatedly. It was a complete and utter shit show. This is not on the refs, this is on coaching and piss poor execution.

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@MaroonBells said:

@minny65 said:

@MaroonBells said:
There are so many places to look to assign blame. I don't even know where to start. 

At the top - HC

Don't disagree. Poor game prep is probably the biggest (again) and that blame ultimately resides with the HC. Just hoping and praying this terrible prep and execution on both sides of the ball doesn't go through the first six games like it did last year. 

Everyone keeps saying poor game prep and blaming it on Zimmer...  what weren't we prepared for?  Our defense was doing their job early in the game and Zimmer mixed in 3-4 looks to confuse the Bengals offense.  Mental errors like false starts are on the players...  if they can't remember the snap count or are too anxious to go... that's on them.  Zimmer can't hold their hand and whisper in their ear, it's OK to go now.

If the offense didn't commit so many preventable penalties by being more mentally tough, we'd have been winning the game from the start and it turns into a blowout.  Instead we fiddle farted around on offense and it really got bad when Abdullah steps out of bounds on the last drive to preserve an extra 30+ seconds for the Bengals to score on a long TD before half.

Maybe I saw something different, but I thought the Vikings had a good gameplan going in.  It was the lack of offense (mostly due to penalties) in the first half that kept the Bengals in the game.

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The worst coaching decision of the game was by Cincy going for it on 4th down.  We quickly got back into the game based on that horrible coaching decision.  

But our team could not overcome our own mistakes and bad decisions.  Team was not prepared mentally that is for sure.  All those new coaches on Offense, we should have had our starters playing a lot more in preseason to work out all the kinks.  They needed time all together, not one starter here and one starter there...all together like when it's a real game.  You practice like it is a real game when you have a ton of new faces.  I also think this of our defense....new scheme for some of our veterans ....I will quote the great Iverson...practice makes perfect