Poor team

[harvey lee]

All I can say is this team stinks from one end all the way to the other end.

The Vikes will need 5QB's for next season to not run out before the end with this O line we have.

The D looks just as poor tonight.

Very sad football team.

[goose89]

I agree, harvey. They fooled me for the umpteenth time (shame on me) with that first drive, but they're back to what I expected.

[zamboni]

What I can't for the life of me figure out, is as big as Loadholt and McKinnie are, they still hold, false start, hands to the face and still get beat. Beat bad. The O Line needs to get scrapped except for Hutch

[harvey lee]

I do not understand is how they could do so well protecting Favre last season and this year, they were horrid at best.

[Jim Almquist]

I have to believe that the team has pretty much mailed it in for the season. We got to see a glimmer of hope when they changed coach's but now that is gone as well. Maybe next year...

[Surface Tension]

I can't help to look back to the preseason games. Seeing the D-line vets sitting on the sideline while the rookies were on the field. Lets just say they exuded confidence that their positions locked up. It bothered me.

IMO, they forgot what it took and somehow opposing teams were supposed to honor their reputations.

O-line is pathetic.

Doesn't matter who the QB is when your line can't give him time to throw the ball. Protection has come in holding after they've been beat. Running game, can't blame AP there. Again back to the line getting dominated.

Lets figure out what we're going to do with Webb instead of letting him got to waste on the sideline. If he is the "best athlete" on the team then he should be playing. Put him in for Harvin when he gets his headaches.

I like Frazier but think he needs a some of that Ditka style to motivate some of our millionaires.

[so haaad]

Before the season I predicted this team would go 8-8. Wow was I wrong!

[lawdog]

Frazier is certainly not the answer either! That defense he built sucks. Madeiu Williams makes me crazy, whiffing on tackles, bad angles on runs and horrible over the top "help" in pass defense. This guy really needs to go!

The O-line is horrid. Our QB situation is abissmal for next year. Doubt Rice or Peterson are going to want to sign new contracts with a junk team...

We just entered a major rebuilding project!!!

[zepman]

Thanks Chilly!!!

[FISHINGURU]

Best part of all is a blind man could of told you at the end of last season our biggest holes were O-line and Safety yet we did nothing to fix it.

Madieu might be the worst safety in the whole league. It won't take much to turn this thing around next season if someone smart gets in here.

Seen enough of Sullivan to last a lifetime, he's undersized and gets blasted up the middle, and he can't snap a ball. Being football smart means nothing when you get pumbled every play.

[winterwalleye]

McKinnie is great for picking Farve up after he misses his block and gets sacked.Need offensive linemen before a quarterback will do any good.

[LMITOUT]

Never should have got rid of Tice.

[zepman]

Never should have got rid of Tice.

+1. Give him the resources Chilly had and this team would be rolling right now.

[greebs]

health, turnovers, and schedule; not necessarily in that order play such major roles in a team's record from year to year and oftentimes one of those factors impacts one or more of the other factors.

last year's team would likely have had a couple more losses and this year's would have likely had a couple fewer losses had they flipflopped this year and last year's schedule. health has played a small part but hasn't been a huge issue this year but the tougher schedule definitely lead to more turnovers (and losses). I'm not sure if the vikes still have the worst +/- turnover ratio in the league but as of a couple weeks ago they did. last year the easier schedule allowed the vikes to play with the lead most of the time and that typically coincides with fewer turnovers (and more confidence and energy).

as poor as this team looks right now, they could very well turn it around next year if they end up at the bottom of the division this year and once again have an easier schedule like the 2009 season. not sure which afc division they get next year for schedule but that will play a big part along with their non-division games scheduled.

[zamboni]

My gripe with Tice was guy would lead the team to like 6-0 then they would fall big time. Seemed every year our playoff berth was hinged on beating Arizona and they never could.