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TJSweens -> RE: General Vikes Talk (11/21/2019 4:07:05 PM)
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https://www.dailynorseman.com/2019/11/20/20973676/minnesota-vikings-win-over-denver-broncos-proved-very-little
I wonder, what exactly is Mike Zimmer getting paid to do? This defensive ‘mastermind’ can’t get his team to beat Chase Daniel, or Matt Moore, and made Brandon Allen look like the second coming of Joe Montana. He’s supposed to be a ‘whisperer’ of defensive backs. Yet, Xavier Rhodes, Trae Waynes, and Mike Hughes, three 1st round picks, continue to look nothing short of horrendous each week trying to defend even mediocre receivers whether in man-to-man or zone coverage, and Mackensie Alexander hasn’t looked a lot better either. I’ve asked this here before, and I’ll ask again: Has Mike Zimmer never taught these guys how to look back for the ball, or how to play it when they do? Vikings corners have TWO interceptions in 11 games, TWO! That’s it! The Vikings are 25th in pass plays allowed of 20+ yards, that’s an enormous problem. When that happens with such frequency (40 times in 11 games), that is COACHING every bit that it’s the players.
Thought this snippet from the article was spot on.
I liked this part as well:
Scheme suggestion: on 3rd down defense, the line should look like this left to right (facing from the offensive side): Anthony Barr, Stephen Weatherly, Danielle Hunter, Everson Griffen. Barr is much better playing downhill, and his speed on an edge rush and/or contain could prove a big difference against faster quarterback. Play Jayron Kearse where Barr would play as a linebacker, and go from there. Kearse clearly covers better than Barr. Also, please give Holton Hill more playing time, this guy has proven he can play, and there’s no way he could play worse than the current corners Zimmer chooses to field most of the time, right?
Agree 100%
Barr's skill set as a pass rusher are way under utilized.
Kearse is way better in coverage so it's a win win.
Adding some juice to are pass rush is much needed and the player is right there on the field being asked to do something he isn't good at instead.
One of the reporters should ask Zimmer about these possibilities during a press conference. Something tells me Zimmer would not respond well.
One of the assistant coaches should bring it up in a meeting. Maybe they have. In my dreamworld the coaches have talked up a bunch of this kind of stuff and see the ways they could capitalize on the misdirection and surprise of bringing out a twist like this every once in a while. Again, dreamworld here, I hope they've got this stuff waiting - waiting for the playoffs or NFCCG. So that this time it's the Vikings that are being talked about for having such a great strategy.
One would think if they had a new twist regarding the pass rush it certainly should have been used on one of those 4th down plays Denver converted on in that final drive.
We very easily could have lost that game had Allen thrown that final pass to Fant with a little more touch.
I haven't seen much creativity in the rush this season for the most part.
Could we have then challenged for offensive PI? It was kind of blatant, but I don't think there's been a successful challenge this year
if it were a scoring play there would be a booth review. That would be subject to the review process, but they really haven't been overturning those calls at all this year.
You've obviously forgotten getting screwed out of a TD at Lambeu this year. Granted they don't overturn them easily, but Fant pretty blatantly put two hands on Kearse's chest and shoved off hard.
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