2021 Vikings Season Thread

[nicksaviking]

One 66 yard run and basically squat on the ground aside from that. The team and the announcers have to stop praising the Vikings for ‘sticking with their game plan’ and other such nonsense.

[TheLeviathan]

I'm totally good with this.  The number one priority now is losing all the game we should lose and moving in a new direction this offseason.

Some of the young defensive players looked good today and Darrisaw continues to look like a legit LT.

[nicksaviking]

11 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I'm not watching another Vikings game with thus head coach. 

Well I don’t want them firing Zimmer now. I don’t want anyone on this coaching staff getting a chance to audition for the next HC job.

[LVTwinsfan]

It doesn’t matter that the Packers are without Rodgers. Their 7 wins is probably enough to win the division

[Vanimal46]

4 minutes ago, TheLeviathan said:

I'm totally good with this.  The number one priority now is losing all the game we should lose and moving in a new direction this offseason.

Some of the young defensive players looked good today and Darrisaw continues to look like a legit LT.

I am good with a loss too, and as many future losses as we can get the rest of the year. However, one thing that needs to happen before the offseason is finding anyone else to call offensive plays. We’re trending towards Justin Jefferson forcing his way out of here if things continue as they are. He went 2 hours in real time between targets. That is unacceptable. 

[Mike Sixel]

3 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

I am good with a loss too, and as many future losses as we can get the rest of the year. However, one thing that needs to happen before the offseason is finding anyone else to call offensive plays. We’re trending towards Justin Jefferson forcing his way out of here if things continue as they are. He went 2 hours in real time between targets. That is unacceptable. 

They had to feed cook, you know. 

[cHawk]

15 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

It doesn’t matter that the Packers are without Rodgers. Their 7 wins is probably enough to win the division

Love might be able to hold down the fort. If he can, the division is the Packers’.

[Mike Sixel]

 

[Vanimal46]

9 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

They had to feed cook, you know. 

And of course feed Ham during critical situations. It’s mind boggling. Conklin led the team in targets today. After the amazing rookie campaign Jefferson had it’s a fire able offense to not involve him heavily. if I were him I’d be fuming behind the scenes. 

[Mike Sixel]

4 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

And of course feed Ham during critical situations. It’s mind boggling. Conklin led the team in targets today. After the amazing rookie campaign Jefferson had it’s a fire able offense to not involve him heavily. if I were him I’d be fuming behind the scenes. 

I'd ask for a trade for sure. I'd certainly be as unhappy as Kirk and Adam.

[ashbury]

30 minutes ago, cHawk said:

What’s amazing is that that technically isn’t even a real thing.

[TheLeviathan]

27 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

I am good with a loss too, and as many future losses as we can get the rest of the year. However, one thing that needs to happen before the offseason is finding anyone else to call offensive plays. We’re trending towards Justin Jefferson forcing his way out of here if things continue as they are. He went 2 hours in real time between targets. That is unacceptable. 

A new OC will come with a new coach.

[LVTwinsfan]

1 hour ago, nicksaviking said:

One 66 yard run and basically squat on the ground aside from that. The team and the announcers have to stop praising the Vikings for ‘sticking with their game plan’ and other such nonsense.

The Vikings have a game plan?

[cHawk]

2 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

I'd ask for a trade for sure. I'd certainly be as unhappy as Kirk and Adam.

He should say, “Get Zimmer out of here or trade me.” He won’t, though.

[cHawk]

21 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

 

I hope this trend continues.

[Mike Sixel]

8 minutes ago, cHawk said:

I hope this trend continues.

Same.

[nicksaviking]

29 minutes ago, cHawk said:

I hope this trend continues.

Geez, they were THIS close to making the NFC Championship this year!

[Vanimal46]

A net positive from yesterday’s game. Bradbury is just a bad center. 

[Mike Sixel]

1 hour ago, Vanimal46 said:

A net positive from yesterday’s game. Bradbury is just a bad center. 

wow. 

[nicksaviking]

So, I hate the Bears and I'm glad they lost, but Tony Corrente threw that game last night right? If he didn't, he had to have had some unveiled personal vendetta he was exercising.

I mentioned it before, but I don't know how the NFL can continue to act like they can operate however they please, hide behind prepared statements and never be forthcoming when they are now so closely tied to legalized sports betting. If they keep acting like they are untouchable, congress is going eventually knock over their house of cards. If the officials get tied to game fixing, the league will be in trouble, because unlike the NBA, fan interest is so dependent on fantasy and sports betting; if that gets taken away it's over. MLB is struggling in different ways, but if either league collapses, it's going to be because of their own greed and hubris.

[Otto von Ballpark]

On 11/7/2021 at 1:39 PM, USAFChief said:

So the Vikings, up 14-3, get a pick with about 1:40 before halftime. Downed inside the 15. On 1st down, call a running play...OK. Good idea. At worst, you burn 35 seconds off the clock, or force a TO from Baltimore. 

 

But..

No. 

 

The stupid *********** VIKINGS call time, followed by the completely predictable discombobulated 2 incomplete passes and a FG...leaving Baltimore 1:30 and 2 TOs. Why in heaven's name are the VIKINGS calling a TO there???

Vikings lineman Oli Udoh was down on the field, injured on that play. In the last two minutes of a half, there are no "injury timeouts" so the Vikings were charged with a timeout.

[Danchat]

 

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Dalvin Cook has been accused of physical and emotional abuse in a lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend.  

The suit alleges assault, battery, and false imprisonment, and that Cook's alleged abuse caused a concussion. The woman, 29-year-old Gracelyn Trimble, also accuses Cook of holding her hostage with a firearm. Trimble is seeking unspecified monetary damages. 

 

??????

[Mike Sixel]

12 hours ago, Danchat said:

 

 

??????

There is A LOT to this.....I'd suggest looking around for more than this.....

[nicksaviking]

25 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

There is A LOT to this.....I'd suggest looking around for more than this.....

Yeah, sounds like there's way more to this story and Cook's agent is trying to get out ahead of something that's going to make Cook look bad.

Adam Schefter has to go. Everything he says these days is propaganda from either a GM, an agent or the league. He'll spin anything in any way his "sources" want as long as he gets the scoop. He's no longer an actual journalist.

For all I know, Cook IS the victim, but because it's coming from Schefter, I automatically think whatever he says is a big fat untruth.

[nicksaviking]

Also, if Cook did something terrible, that should be the final nail in Spielman's coffin as well. His desperation extensions over the past year or so are almost unanimously disasters.

[Mike Sixel]

12 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

Also, if Cook did something terrible, that should be the final nail in Spielman's coffin as well. His desperation extensions over the past year or so are almost unanimously disasters.

Weren't there known personal issues even when he was drafted?

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/11/27/rise-of-dalvin-cook-after-history-of-off-field-problems

[nicksaviking]

41 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Weren't there known personal issues even when he was drafted?

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/11/27/rise-of-dalvin-cook-after-history-of-off-field-problems

Yeah, assaulting women and firearm charges. Sounds like the same thing now.

[USAFChief]

23 hours ago, Otto von Ballpark said:

Vikings lineman Oli Udoh was down on the field, injured on that play. In the last two minutes of a half, there are no "injury timeouts" so the Vikings were charged with a timeout.

Pretty sure that was after the 2nd down play.

[Otto von Ballpark]

59 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Pretty sure that was after the 2nd down play.

You're right, it was. But I think it is still the correct explanation. I was going by this report:

Looking back at the condensed game video, I think the TV broadcast got it wrong. Their score bug docked a timeout from the Vikings at 1:37 (after the 1st down play), but then it docked one from the Ravens at 1:33 when Udoh was down (after our incomplete pass on second down).

But the ESPN play log (as well as the tweet above) suggests that those timeouts were actually reversed: the Ravens called time at 1:37, and the Vikings were charged with one at 1:33 due to Udoh's injury.

That would make more sense, as the Ravens wanted to stop the clock after our first-down run so they could get the ball back with more time on the clock. And even though the 2nd down play was an incomplete pass which stopped the clock, Udoh being down would have still charged the Vikings with a timeout anyway according to NFL Rule 4, Section 5, Article 4:

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INJURY TIMEOUTS AFTER TWO-MINUTE WARNING OF EITHER HALF
After the two-minute warning of a half, the following shall apply:
(a) If a team has not used its three charged team timeouts, the team of the injured player will be charged a team timeout, unless:
(i) the injury is the result of a foul by an opponent;
(ii) the injury occurs during a down in which there is a change of possession, a successful field goal, or an attempted Try; or
(iii) the opponent calls a timeout.

 

[Otto von Ballpark]

I found the full game video -- the score bug was actually corrected after the replay of the 2nd down incompletion. It briefly (but correctly) showed Vikings with 3 timeouts, and Ravens with only 2, at 1:33 remaining, just before Vikings trainers attended to Udoh: