2022 Vikings Regular Season Thread

[Aggies7]

niners miss the FG! Going to OT

[Aggies7]

Raiders always let you down. Doesn’t matter who we play round one. Won’t win a road game in round two 

[Mike Sixel]

1 hour ago, Aggies7 said:

Raiders always let you down. Doesn’t matter who we play round one. Won’t win a road game in round two 

It's much better to get to round two than not. And this team has how many wins this year? Your posts read like this team is awful. They aren't. 

[Aggies7]

18 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

It's much better to get to round two than not. And this team has how many wins this year? Your posts read like this team is awful. They aren't. 

The point is to win the Super Bowl, not win one game and get cooked in round two.

At this point, I would be concerned about beating ANY of the possible first round opponents, New York included. The defense is what it is, the offensive line is in tatters (and it wasn’t good to begin with). We can’t run the ball worth a lick and these outdoor games in January especially on grass make it very difficult to execute a passing game. The receivers were on ice skates today.

I’d much rather have a home game in round 2 as the 2 seed and maybe someone can knock off philly, giving us another home game of it were to go that far. That’s the only way we have a shot. They had an opportunity to essentially wrap up that 2 seed today and instead played almost as badly as they did against Dallas.

I simply cannot comprehend being satisfied with losing in the playoffs. It’s a wild mindset.

[Mike Sixel]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

The point is to win the Super Bowl, not win one game and get cooked in round two.

At this point, I would be concerned about beating ANY of the possible first round opponents, New York included. The defense is what it is, the offensive line is in tatters (and it wasn’t good to begin with). We can’t run the ball worth a lick and these outdoor games in January especially on grass make it very difficult to execute a passing game.

I’d much rather have a home game in round 2 as the 2 seed and maybe someone can knock off philly, giving us another home game. That’s the only way we have a shot. They had an opportunity to essentially wrap up that 2 seed today and instead played almost as badly as they did against Dallas.

i simply cannot comprehend being satisfied with losing in the playoffs. It’s a wild mindset.

I didn't think they'd sniff the playoffs this year. The journey has been very fun. That's enough for me at this point in my life. YMMV, of course. 

[Aggies7]

1 hour ago, Mike Sixel said:

I didn't think they'd sniff the playoffs this year. The journey has been very fun. That's enough for me at this point in my life. YMMV, of course. 

I’m not going to take to the bridge when they get eliminated, for sure 

[LVTwinsfan]

2 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

Raiders always let you down. Doesn’t matter who we play round one. Won’t win a road game in round two 

If the Packers beat the 49ers in round one and the Vikings beat the Giants, Vikes get a home game in round 2….. Vikings are probably #3 seed

[Aggies7]

54 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

If the Packers beat the 49ers in round one and the Vikings beat the Giants, Vikes get a home game in round 2….. Vikings are probably #3 seed

It’s possible

[Parfigliano]

1 hour ago, Aggies7 said:

It’s possible

Not very likely though.

[LVTwinsfan]

6 hours ago, Parfigliano said:

Not very likely though.

What’s unlikely? Packers beating the 49ers? Very likely imo

[Aggies7]

4 hours ago, LVTwinsfan said:

What’s unlikely? Packers beating the 49ers? Very likely imo

Very likely? No. Not on the road in SF. GB can still miss out on the playoffs too btw. 

[LVTwinsfan]

5 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Very likely? No. Not on the road in SF. GB can still miss out on the playoffs too btw. 

I know, that’s unlikely

[Vanimal46]

My confidence level in the Vikings has been drastically reduced. We knew OL depth was a major issue heading into the season. Now if Bradbury’s back injury keeps lingering, we’re forced to play Chris Reed who has never played center until yesterday. Looks like O’Niell either tore his ACL or his achilles yesterday too. 

[Danchat]

I was wrong, I thought our letdown was coming against the Giants, turned out it was the Packers. Why can't this team ever lose a one possession game? 

Some other notes:

Slipping around on the grass was a big reason why the 1st half was so uncompetitive... how did they screw this up? They know playing in Lambeau is like this!

Schlottmann's leg is broken, so he's done. O'Neill probably won't be able to play until the Championship/Super Bowl, so the OL will have to be Darrisaw-Cleveland-Reed-Ingram-Udoh until Bradbury is ready. Garrett should be ready by the first playoff game.

[Mike Sixel]

Another reason to rest JJ and others this coming week. 

[Mike Sixel]

If Darrisaw misses next year, this team is in big trouble.

[Danchat]

1 minute ago, Mike Sixel said:

If Darrisaw misses next year, this team is in big trouble.

You mean O'Neill?

[Mike Sixel]

Just now, Danchat said:

You mean O'Neill?

Ya. Apparently having mild Covid (I'm fine) makes me bad at reading/writing.

[Aggies7]

4 hours ago, Danchat said:

I was wrong, I thought our letdown was coming against the Giants, turned out it was the Packers. Why can't this team ever lose a one possession game? 

Some other notes:

Slipping around on the grass was a big reason why the 1st half was so uncompetitive... how did they screw this up? They know playing in Lambeau is like this!

Schlottmann's leg is broken, so he's done. O'Neill probably won't be able to play until the Championship/Super Bowl, so the OL will have to be Darrisaw-Cleveland-Reed-Ingram-Udoh until Bradbury is ready. Garrett should be ready by the first playoff game.

Vikings hadn’t played on grass since way back on November 6 against Washington. Hadn’t played outside since November 13 at buffalo. Inexcusable that a team wouldn’t have the appropriate cleats to play on grass in January in Green Bay. They were on ice skates, which almost certainly led to the drops. I don’t get that. We had long cleats in high school.

[LVTwinsfan]

7 hours ago, Danchat said:

I was wrong, I thought our letdown was coming against the Giants, turned out it was the Packers. Why can't this team ever lose a one possession game? .

It’s pretty much a given that the  Vikings split with the Packers every season. Cousins is 4-4-1 vs Aaron Rodgers. Big difference between playing  the Packers at Lambeau than the Giants at home 

[Aggies7]

Guy from the bills might have actually just died on the field. Sickening

[Vanimal46]

9 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Guy from the bills might have actually just died on the field. Sickening

Frightening situation. Never seen anything like it. Had to receive CPR on the field. Just call the game. There’s no possible way they can expect these guys to keep playing when they just witnessed this. 

[Mike Sixel]

If they play, I may not watch the rest of the year. 

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Frightening situation. Never seen anything like it. Had to receive CPR on the field. Just call the game. There’s no possible way they can expect these guys to keep playing when they just witnessed this. 

It will be called, you can’t ask people to play after that. The teams would refuse 

[Vanimal46]

21 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

It will be called, you can’t ask people to play after that. The teams would refuse 

There’s really no other choice but to cancel it but they’re still waiting it out for some reason. 

[Aggies7]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

There’s really no other choice but to cancel it but they’re still waiting it out for some reason. 

If it were baseball the stadium would already be empty. NFL is different schedule wise. The league would probably be ok with it being a no contest considering that it’s one week away from the end of the season. Laughable that they were going to give them 5 minutes to get loose and restart 

[Mike Sixel]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

If it were baseball the stadium would already be empty. NFL is different schedule wise. The league would probably be ok with it being a no contest considering that it’s one week away from the end of the season. Laughable that they were going to give them 5 minutes to get loose and restart 

What? I can't watch ... 

[Vanimal46]

3 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

What? I can't watch ... 

Before the coaches stepped in and provided some common sense to suspend the game, the first suggestion was to have the players take 5 minutes to warm up and keep playing. 

[Aggies7]

4 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

What? I can't watch ... 

The NFL originally gave the teams 5 minutes to get loose and restart. People were also upset that it’s taking so long to postpone this game. if this were an MLB game, it would have already been postponed (although it finally appears to be PPD judging by the staff removing sideline gear).

As unimportant as it is in the scheme of life, the NFL probably is trying to figure out how to proceed from here considering the teams playing and the time of season. 

[Vanimal46]

5 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

If it were baseball the stadium would already be empty. NFL is different schedule wise. The league would probably be ok with it being a no contest considering that it’s one week away from the end of the season. Laughable that they were going to give them 5 minutes to get loose and restart 

No kidding. Can’t believe it took coaches stepping in to provide common sense. I know this is very minor, but ESPN is putting Kolber, Schefter, and Booger in a really bad spot filling time. For the first time possibly ever, I’m agreeing with Booger. Call the game, and figure out something else to put on TV tonight.