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Vikings 2014


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Everyone focusing on the offensive side of the ball, when the most important thing to happen in that game was the Vikings forcing 3 consecutive 3 and outs against the Raiders 1st team. Granted, Oakland helped them with a few penalties; but it is nice to see the defense forcing the offense to make plays.

It's still a new offense out there, O-line blocking scheme is different. Hopefully things get put together a little bit better. But 10 points on the first 2 drives without your best offensive player on the field is still pretty good.

The other thing to remember is it's still the preseason. Did Bortles look good? Sure, but he did it by exploiting the same hole in the Tampa 2 defense (that every QB does quite well - see 2013 Vikings). Manziel's preseason the only thing to look at are his from the pocket numbers. Preseason nobody is going to scheme against his running around. Coaches just want to see if the guys can cover, fill gaps, and be in the right spot for the base defenses. Carr looked pretty bad against the Vikes. In fact overall this week was a lot of bad football around the league. Well, except maybe Arizona, they played extremely well.

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Nice post Nick...spot on.

For those of you making career assumptions based off the 1st pre-season game...well, the only thing I can do is LOL!!

Also, having Ponder on this team right now is a huge mistake by Spielman. We should have some young kid with potential as our #3. Ponder will not make the 53 man roster and should not be allowed to take any more snaps for the Vikes going forward.

I can't believe they don't have a young guy taking Ponders snaps right now...

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link?

What kinds of links do you want? There are links out there for any side of any conversation related to football.

Cassel was drafted by the Pats and hyped up for years, then Tom went down for the season with an injury Week 1 from a torn ACL and MCL. Cassel had a nice season and was about to become a free agent, they used the franchise tag on him because they didn't know how Tom was going to play after that injury. There was even talks at the time that they should keep Cassel and trade Tom because of his age and his recent injuries. Instead he got traded to the Chiefs and got a big pay day.

Mallet was one of the "steals" of the draft, mastermind Belichick stole him in that draft, he was so strong in the last couple camps he could be a starter on every other team. Just as recent as right before this preseason game Mallet was so great in camp and this was his audition to show all the other teams how great he is. He took a dump and Garoppolo was solid....now there are already articles saying Garoppolo could be the next Tom Brady and Mallet is a turd lol.

Anyone remember Flynn? That guy could be a starter on 30 other NFL teams if he wasn't behind Rodgers. Everyone cheers for the backups, if they back up HOF QB's they could be starters on any other squad, if they are behind a mediocre QB they should be the starter. The wheel just keeps on spinning.

Nothing against Garoppolo he might be great, longevity will tell. Anyone can have flashes of greatness.

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To those who are comparing Teddy's performance against all other rookie QB's out there...NFL Network said that Bortels faced a 4 man front last weekend with zero blitzes on all of his throws.

Teddy was blitzed on every one of his.....

Be patient with the kid...it's not going to be there day one...it's never been there for anyone day one.

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To those who are comparing Teddy's performance against all other rookie QB's out there...NFL Network said that Bortels faced a 4 man front last weekend with zero blitzes on all of his throws.

Teddy was blitzed on every one of his.....

Be patient with the kid...it's not going to be there day one...it's never been there for anyone day one.

This ^^^

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Also, having Ponder on this team right now is a huge mistake by Spielman. We should have some young kid with potential as our #3. Ponder will not make the 53 man roster and should not be allowed to take any more snaps for the Vikes going forward.

I can't believe they don't have a young guy taking Ponders snaps right now...

He might be gambling for an established QB to get injured and then reap the benefits of a trade for Ponder. He'd be a decent replacement or backup and the Vikes had enough needs on defense that they didn't need to draft two QBs in the draft.
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53 man roster is set...we know Cassel is the starter.

Offensive starters are basically the same as last year...we at least scored points last year. Finished in the middle of the pack last year offensively (in the NFL), with what most would consider a terrible OC and predictable plan. Enter Norv...

Defense is where the improvements needed to be made...the jury is still out on this one. Early indications say we'll be better but I'll wait to go any further until I see them play a few "real" games. Most think the D will be much improved over what we had to watch the last few years...we'll see.

I see 8-8 with meaningfull games late in the year...don't think they make the play-offs this year though. Wouldn't be shocked to see them go 9-7 and squeek a wild-card out either.

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Yeah they are going to have a tough schedule out of the gates. Thankfully some of the toughest teams will be home games but even at that they likely won't be favored. It would be fun to see a big turn around but that would require 180 by the defense and that will be tough regardless of how great zimmer is.

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It's hard to look at the opening schedule and have optimism, but history shows that good teams go bad and vice versa quite quickly. I like Zimmer, Turner, and think that they can quickly change the team attitude quickly. If that's the case, and they can pull out one or two surprise wins early in the schedule, it's not hard to see the Vikings pushing a playoff record. I don't see the QB situation as questionable at all. For once, there is an established veteran at the helm. Cassell can win games, he's just not elite. Fortunately Norv Turner is REALLY good with quarterbacks so that should help even more.

I'm an optimistic non Vikings fan.

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All the Vikings need to do is finish off games. Also, keep everybody healthy because they don't have much depth especially in the defensive back field. Run Adrian out of the backfield more as another thing for the opposing defenses to worry about going forward.

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My opinion hasn't changed, I think coming down to the end of the year we will be fighting for a Wildcard.

Our Defense will automatically be better by not lining up in the same formation and doing the same Cover 2 over and over as QB's laugh at us and pick it apart to win games at the end.

With good play calling our Offense will be pretty good, we have the pieces and I'm sure Norv is an upgrade. As always we lack a true #1 WR, although Patterson and Jennings can get the job done, Rudolph should be much improved in this TE heavy system and of course #28. Can't wait to see what he can do in some spread formations instead of Big Formation run left/run right plays all game.

I think we are gonna be turning some heads this season, punching people in the mouth on defense and putting up some nice points on offense.

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