The Saintly Appointed Ones vs The Pagan Viking Pillagers - Pick it!
Yes, I'm glad we made it to the
playoffs. Although sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for;
especially for Viking fans. Pretty sure they will need another miracle on
Sunday to win this one. NO is just simply better at about every position,
and have a huge home field advantage.
I think the Vikes could hang with
them for the first two quarters, but like the Seattle and GB games, they'll just
start running the ball down their throats in the 3rd quarter and wear out the Vikings
D to blow open the game in the 4th.
It would be wonderful to see the
Vikings finally play well for a complete game on both sides of the ball against
a good team. That hasn't happened all season, and I'd have to be delusional
at best to think it could happen suddenly on the road in a playoff game.
Sorry to say I expect to see the
tale of the 2019 Viking season ending in NO on Sunday.
Pillagers: 17Monks: 31
@"Ralphie" said: Thanks HV! Dis took my guess but I thought MaroonBells take on the scoring seemed right on. I don't know if anyone predicted an OT game!No miricle this time either. The Vikes just straight up beat them at home. B)
@"HappyViking" said:Wow, what a game! I'm giving the win to both Disgustipated and Ralphie - way to keep the faith! I tip my Viking cap to you both, but also to JR44, MaroonBells, and FSUVike for picking the Vikes! SKOL!@"Disgustipated" said: FSUs breakdowns have got me feeling a bit optimistic...I think we stifle Brees early on, build a decent lead and hold on in a nail biter.Vikes 27
Saints 23@"Ralphie" said: Can't argue with this ^^^. But to be different, what fingernails? ;)Vikings 26
Saints 24
Went the way some of us expected accept a bit lower scoring.
I'm going to be brutally fucking honest. Too many of you react with your hearts instead of your heads. I love all of you and don't blame you. Miles of scar tissue to deal with.
But Maroon and I and a handful of others were giving data-driven opinions on why the Saints weren't all that and a bag of chips and Minnesota wasn't the hapless franchise teetering on the brink of another rebuild.
Zimmer has ALWAYS schemed well against Brees and Payton. Today's wrinkle I still can't wrap my head around. Big Nickel but with Sendejo instead of Kearse. Why did that work so well?
Thielen against their shitty Secondary was a no-brainer. I was impressed that Allen realized that Cousins was more comfortable looking for him and pulled Lattimore off of Diggs. And it still didn't matter.
Stefanski was meh and I'll get into that later in the week. But Minnesota ran well enough, got just enough Pass Protection and got Pass Rush from the Front Four. Those are always going to be the keys. When this team gets all 3 and doesn't shoot themselves in the foot with turnovers and penalties they can beat anyone.
I'll say it again. This team can beat anyone. Doesn't mean they will. But they truly have the Punchers Chance.
I was more off than Vegas was.
Vegas had more info and experience than anyone here and had the game Saints- 8.5?
Playoffs are just not the same regular season
Just a lot of lazy groupthink in the media and Vegas. I was stunned nobody was picking the Vikings. Like nobody on TV, online and to a lesser extent even here.
New Orleans can't throw the ball deep. Except of course they did on that one play, which sucked. Their Offense gets 5 yards a clip. Minnesota has by far the best Defense at not giving up YAC. So the Saints were petty much going to need to go on 10+ play drives to score and negative plays were going to hurt their Offense every bit as much as they hurt Minnesota.
And their Secondary has Lattimore and not much else. And 1 good pass rusher who doesn't do any of the things that the D-Linemen do that has caused the Vikings problems.
I was impressed with their LBs. Maroon called it, their MIKE is really good. And Taysom Hill. I underestimate that unit and that player. I also didn't think Cook and Mattison would be that effective. Otherwise, no real surprises other than a little lower scoring than I expected.
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