2022 Vikings Regular Season Thread

[Aggies7]

Think we can maybe cover tyreek bleeping hill 

[cHawk]

Meanwhile the Packers are losing to the Jets at home.

 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Aggies7]

3rd and 20 turns into a first down. Absolute trash defense 

[Aggies7]

Nice. Finally broke one

[nicksaviking]

So, is this how the year is going to go? We complain about the poor play for 3/4ths of the game only for some random dumb luck to bail us out?

[Aggies7]

Just now, nicksaviking said:

So, is this how the year is going to go? We complain about the poor play for 3/4ths of the game only for some random dumb luck to bail us out?

Not sustainable unfortunately 

[Aggies7]

5-1 with essentially a 3 game lead on the packers

[Aggies7]

Perhaps I spoke too soon

[Aggies7]

Now we have to recover 

[nicksaviking]

2 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

Not sustainable unfortunately 

Worked for the Packers for the last 40 years…….

[Mike Sixel]

The ol had been good until today ...

[Aggies7]

1 hour ago, nicksaviking said:

Worked for the Packers for the last 40 years…….

If Tua played today, this was probably a 10+ point loss. Watching buffalo and KC now…football is unpredictable but the bills should easily put up 30+ against us

[Mike Sixel]

4 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

If Tua played today, this was probably a 10+ point loss. Watching buffalo and KC now…football is unpredictable but the bills should easily put up 30+ against us

40+

[Vanimal46]

After getting burned by the Twins’ hot start the first 1/3rd of the season, I’m hesitant to believe in this Vikings team. We haven’t seen them play a complete game. The flaws are evident every week.

We’ve been incredibly fortunate playing teams at the right time… New Orleans without their #1 QB, #1 RB, and #1 WR. Miami with a 7th round rookie QB who has no business touching the field this year and Teddy. 

November is going to be the real test for this team. At Washington, at Buffalo, vs. Dallas, vs. NE. Once we go through that gauntlet we’ll know if this is a 9 win team or a 12 win team. 

[nicksaviking]

38 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

If Tua played today, this was probably a 10+ point loss. Watching buffalo and KC now…football is unpredictable but the bills should easily put up 30+ against us

It was more a dig at GB, as it seems things like that almost always break their way.

[Aggies7]

31 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

It was more a dig at GB, as it seems things like that almost always break their way.

The good news is that it appears the division should be ours for the foreseeable future. I think AR time is coming to an end in GB

[cHawk]

Well, Cooper Rush looks like…er…uhhh…Cooper Rush tonight.

[gunnarthor]

Well, 5-1. The defense looks bad but is ok in scoring defense. H. Smith is really showing his age but maybe it's the scheme as well? Kendriks and Hicks don't look great together. But, maybe, the defense can get better with more experience in this 3-4.

At times, the offense has looked unstoppable and I think they are probably going to finish pretty good. Too many weapons. Taking KOC a bit to realize how good our run game could be (strange to type that). But this looks like a top 3 team in the NFC. And GB is losing, so. ?

[nicksaviking]

15 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

After getting burned by the Twins’ hot start the first 1/3rd of the season, I’m hesitant to believe in this Vikings team. We haven’t seen them play a complete game. The flaws are evident every week.

We’ve been incredibly fortunate playing teams at the right time… New Orleans without their #1 QB, #1 RB, and #1 WR. Miami with a 7th round rookie QB who has no business touching the field this year and Teddy. 

November is going to be the real test for this team. At Washington, at Buffalo, vs. Dallas, vs. NE. Once we go through that gauntlet we’ll know if this is a 9 win team or a 12 win team. 

This team caught a horseshoe for the entire season. The only 'scary' games left are at Buffalo and at Green Bay.

Surely they won't win the rest, it's just that there's no reason they shouldn't be able to win the rest.

[nicksaviking]

14 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

The good news is that it appears the division should be ours for the foreseeable future. I think AR time is coming to an end in GB

Yeah, he's not looking like he wants to stick around after this year.

Or for the rest of this year for that matter. 

[Mike Sixel]

The schedule and other team's injuries have helped for sure...... But other teams have lost games like this this year. Sports is always partly about timing and health, and so far, so good. I'm not impressed with the defense, so the o has to get better, imo. 

[cHawk]

37 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

This team caught a horseshoe for the entire season. The only 'scary' games left are at Buffalo and at Green Bay.

Surely they won't win the rest, it's just that there's no reason they shouldn't be able to win the rest.

Eh…IDK. I think the Dallas game could be tough as well. They’ve beaten us the last two years with a backup QB.

That being said this time we have a huge advantage at head coach.

[nicksaviking]

On 10/17/2022 at 10:29 AM, cHawk said:

Eh…IDK. I think the Dallas game could be tough as well. They’ve beaten us the last two years with a backup QB.

That being said this time we have a huge advantage at head coach.

It's at home. Dallas might end up favored, but I wouldn't call it a scary game. Not one that I'd go in with a preconceived notion that it's a sure loss. Like I will when they go to Buffalo.

Also, only marginally related, but I'm expecting Dallas to start tanking after last night's loss. They're so damn soft these days that they always seem to crap the bed after they fail to overcome adversity. They'll be celebrating the return of their starting QB, then they'll all act confounded when the team should be improved but end up losing. Anyway, that's the 21st Century Cowboys I've come to appreciate. 

With the Lions up next week, completely falling apart is a tough task, but I think they're up to the challenge.

[Aggies7]

Schedule isn’t TOUGH but with the emergence of some teams like the jets, giants and patriots, it may not be as easy as it once appeared. Also, the 3 remaining divisional games are on the road. We always struggle in Chicago no matter how bad they are. 11 games left, I think you’d hope to come out 7-4. 12-5 should be good enough to get a bye unless someone gets hot.
 

Unfortunately I think the eagles will be the top seed with their weak schedule coming up so someone will have to go through Philly to beat them (yikes). But then again, who saw Pittsburgh beating Washington, the falcons beating SF and the jets romping the packers?

It would be nice if for once we could just go out and take care of business without making it a nail biter. I think they mentioned yesterday that we’ve played the most one score games over the last two years. I believe it. Yesterdays game shouldn’t have been close with the dolphins so banged up.

[Danchat]

3 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

12-5 should be good enough to get a bye unless someone gets hot.

Only one team gets a bye these days, meaning Philly would have to go 11-6 since they will have the tiebreaker.

[cHawk]

39 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Only one team gets a bye these days, meaning Phill would have to go 11-6 since they will have the tiebreaker.

Yep, and the Eagles are definitely finishing better than 11-6.

[Aggies7]

4 hours ago, Danchat said:

Only one team gets a bye these days, meaning Philly would have to go 11-6 since they will have the tiebreaker.

Oh crud I totally forgot about that

[Danchat]

19 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

Oh crud I totally forgot about that

Getting the 2 seed wouldn’t be so bad, the #7 seed they’ll play WC week will probably be awful since the NFC is so bad. Of course it’d be far more preferable to get a bye…

[nicksaviking]

On 10/17/2022 at 1:30 PM, Danchat said:

Only one team gets a bye these days, meaning Philly would have to go 11-6 since they will have the tiebreaker.

Byes are for wimps anyway.

[LVTwinsfan]

Just keep winning