Forum The Longship What is wrong with this defense?????

What is wrong with this defense?????

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I don't get it????  Didn't anyone practice during off season??  Did they think they could win by just showing up??  It was suppose to be the best defense ever....no holes....This is driving me crazy!!!!

#1 · Sep 27, 8:29 PM
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We used to stop passing teams. Now, not so much.   We really miss Griff for sure.

#2 · Sep 27, 8:49 PM
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Teams have us figured out and we don't adjust.

#3 · Sep 27, 8:55 PM
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Shitty corner play and no pass rush.

#4 · Sep 27, 8:56 PM
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It's what I say every time we underachieve... it's the Vikings.

Shit franchise in and out. They dress a pig up in lipstick every few years, but it's the same result always. Home for the Super Bowl or even worse... heads down after one. 

#5 · Sep 27, 8:58 PM
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Finally get a QB and the #1 Defense turns to #2. Why oh why. Oh well morning comes early.

#6 · Sep 27, 9:34 PM
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Time to start looking forward to the draft.....going to be a early pick it looks like.

#7 · Sep 27, 10:11 PM
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It's the young minded offenses that are beating Zimmer.

#8 · Sep 27, 11:09 PM
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I was there in person; Defense got absolutely shredded. Not sure what it looked like on TV but 1) Goff had all day and 2) WRs were running totally free with no one within 8 yds of em on many plays. And when they were actually covered, Goff was slinging dimes and beating the defense anyway.
Really hard to watch them getting chunk gains of 8-15 yds for most of the night.
I'm not a defensive genius like Zimmer is but no pressure with our front 4 seems to a big problem to me. :/

#9 · Sep 27, 11:31 PM
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The players the Vikings got on the roster...…..man the Vikings should be keeping teams under 15 points what the heck.  All off season it finally felt we had the things, players, coaches.  The Vikings even improved the defense with players....depth finally.  This has to be a bad dream....

#10 · Sep 27, 11:52 PM
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@"pattersaur" said:
I was there in person; Defense got absolutely shredded. Not sure what it looked like on TV but 1) Goff had all day and 2) WRs were running totally free with no one within 8 yds of em on many plays. And when they were actually covered, Goff was slinging dimes and beating the defense anyway. Really hard to watch them getting chunk gains of 8-15 yds for most of the night. I'm not a defensive genius like Zimmer is but no pressure with our front 4 seems to a big problem to me. :/
This.

was there also...trying to remember when we last used the double A gap blitz...or our last game with multiple sacks.

Goff had all night to throw, and was first sacked in I think the third QTr by Hunter...and that was it. He was never under pressure. Just carved us up all night. 

#11 · Sep 28, 12:35 AM
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@"suncoastvike" said: Finally get a QB and the #1 Defense turns to #2. Why oh why. Oh well morning comes early.
So true...Thought the same thing to myself last night. And these D issues dont look like something a few tweaks are going to make go away. 

Something is really wrong and I'm starting to question it all - cause this has been going on since the New Orleans game. 

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