09-20-2022, 01:08 PM
As a long time, diehard Viking fan like all of us on this site regularly it is difficult to manage expectations. But as many of us have indicated prior to the season we have a whole new coaching staff with new schemes on both sides of the ball and about 8 new starters/players from what we started last year - mostly on D of course. There is going to be a learning curve and a lot of mistakes throughout the season especially (hopefully) more in the early season. The key is to get better as the season progresses.
Last night was another embarrassing performance on MNF and in my home team area of the worst fans in all of sports - Iggles!
I did not expect the shite show we saw last night just like I did not expect a masterpiece last week. In a way they even out. We did not make many mistakes last week at all and then this week we made up for it. JJ cutting off his inside route for a TD was big and nothing was more impactful than every year breakout player Smith dropping a TD. Also, the last Int that should have been an INT the play before shouldn't Kirk have thrown both of those balls to the back pile on for JJ, isn't that what QB's automatically do when someone is covered and you let a WR like JJ make a play on the ball? Kirk did not play well but we had zero rythme but that happens when you can't run the ball and your WR's aren't getting open or dropping the ball or running poor routes.
The D was a seive. But we did shut them out in the second half so we made some adjustments that worked. We could have clawed back into the game but it certainly didn't feel like a game we ever had a shot in winning.
Oh well, learning experience early in the year.
Now let's build off it and improve execution on all sides and move forward to building a playoff caliber team.
Last night was another embarrassing performance on MNF and in my home team area of the worst fans in all of sports - Iggles!
I did not expect the shite show we saw last night just like I did not expect a masterpiece last week. In a way they even out. We did not make many mistakes last week at all and then this week we made up for it. JJ cutting off his inside route for a TD was big and nothing was more impactful than every year breakout player Smith dropping a TD. Also, the last Int that should have been an INT the play before shouldn't Kirk have thrown both of those balls to the back pile on for JJ, isn't that what QB's automatically do when someone is covered and you let a WR like JJ make a play on the ball? Kirk did not play well but we had zero rythme but that happens when you can't run the ball and your WR's aren't getting open or dropping the ball or running poor routes.
The D was a seive. But we did shut them out in the second half so we made some adjustments that worked. We could have clawed back into the game but it certainly didn't feel like a game we ever had a shot in winning.
Oh well, learning experience early in the year.
Now let's build off it and improve execution on all sides and move forward to building a playoff caliber team.
