Early Lines Are Out...

still. no. resect. thats. fine

@"Viking1987" said: still. no. resect. thats. fine

Have you ever answered as to why you type like you're gasping for air?

EDIT: Barr's Shatner joke was great so I'm not trying to piggy-back but I've always wondered wtf if wrong with you.

Saints were -7.5 today, correct?

SF is -7..........?    

It looks about right.

@"Mattyman" said: Saints were -7.5 today, correct?

SF is -7..........?    

Vikings weren't a very good team last week. Now all of a sudden they are!
I think it will go to -7.5 by game time. 

SF opened -7 but mostly -6.5 now.   I don't see it going back to 7.  

@"jargomcfargo" said:

@"Mattyman" said: Saints were -7.5 today, correct?

SF is -7..........?    

Vikings weren't a very good team last week. Now all of a sudden they are!

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"jargomcfargo" said:

@"Mattyman" said: Saints were -7.5 today, correct?

SF is -7..........?    

Vikings weren't a very good team last week. Now all of a sudden they are!

That was the mistake everyone made last week. Thinking that the Vikings were exactly what they showed in their last game. The Vikings are who they've been all year. A team with a ton of talent capable of beating anyone, and capable of throwing up the occasional stinker, too. 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"jargomcfargo" said:

@"Mattyman" said: Saints were -7.5 today, correct?

SF is -7..........?    

Vikings weren't a very good team last week. Now all of a sudden they are!

That was the mistake everyone made last week. Thinking that the Vikings were exactly what they showed in their last game. The Vikings are who they've been all year. A team with a ton of talent capable of beating anyone, and capable of throwing up the occasional stinker, too. 

MB, you were proven right here. I think my issue and those of other fans is how different teams can look week to week. Outplayed and outcoached one week and then dominate a top NFC opponent in their place another. 

BUT having said that: its still very off-script for our beloved Vikings. 

This has been the holy question in the NFL for eons now...How can a team look so good one week and not another?

Cause the players are human?? 

We look for trends and tendencies...I get where Sticky is coming from. I ALWAYS expect the other shoe to drop. I should - I've been waiting for another SB since I was 17. I have 60 on the horizon

hurry-up Vikings...

For all the success Zim had game planning and negating what Peyton and the Saints wanted to do, you have to ask yourself: Why don't we see it more consistently? 

@"BarrNone55" said: For all the success Zim had game planning and negating what Peyton and the Saints wanted to do, you have to ask yourself: Why don't we see it more consistently? 

That too...

Until yesterday, this season has to be the most disappointed I've been in Zimmer and the staff. And as masterful as they were on D, some of the calls by KS left us all scratching our head. He's still getting his sea-legs isn't he?

@"BarrNone55" said: For all the success Zim had game planning and negating what Peyton and the Saints wanted to do, you have to ask yourself: Why don't we see it more consistently? 

Good question. Probably because it's not that easy. Teams don't always come out and call plays like your film study says they will. How did Arizona beat Seattle in Seattle? How did the Falcons blow out the Saints in New Orleans? How did the Broncos beat us 20-0 at the half and then lose to us 27-0 in the 2nd? First game in Green Bay, they beat us 21-0 and then were dominated by us the rest of the game? 

The more I watch football, the more I've come to realize that talent is just a small part of the equation. Game plans, and how you adjust (or don't) to what the other team is doing that you didn't expect, is a much bigger factor than I ever thought. 

Kyle Shanahan v. Zimmer should be another doozy. 

I think I understand football slightly more than I understand women.

@"BarrNone55" said: I think I understand football slightly more than I understand women.

Hopefully we get another full week of we can't possibly win the game.

@"BarrNone55" said: Hopefully we get another full week of we can't possibly win the game.

I think the whole narrative has changed. SF will still be favored, as they should be, but I suspect we'll get one or two "experts" this time who wonder if this Vikings team, now with a healthy Thielen and Cook, isn't that team that everyone loved mid-year--that most thought was right up there with the Saints and the 49ers and the Ravens. I can't help but recall that writer who predicted the Vikings in the Super Bowl after the Charger game. 

Did a single expert predict the Vikings to win in New Orleans? I didn't look very hard, but I didn't see one person pick the Vikings. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"BarrNone55" said: Hopefully we get another full week of we can't possibly win the game.

I think the whole narrative has changed. SF will still be favored, as they should be, but I suspect we'll get one or two "experts" this time who wonder if this Vikings team, now with a healthy Thielen and Cook, isn't that team that everyone loved mid-year--that most thought was right up there with the Saints and the 49ers and the Ravens. I can't help but recall that writer who predicted the Vikings in the Super Bowl after the Charger game. 

Did a single expert predict the Vikings to win in New Orleans? I didn't look very hard, but I didn't see one person pick the Vikings. 

I will say this...  the matchups against SF scare me.  Their running game is really good and versatile (much like ours) and their front four can really get after the QB.  Armstead in the middle is going to be a handful...

It will be a tall task to stop their run game and the offense better have a good game plan to get Kirk comfortable.

Here's a headline Mike might want to put on his bulletin board:

49ers: Minnesota's win eases path to Super Bowl for Niners