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Trekgeekscott -> RE: General Vikes Talk (11/6/2023 8:15:28 AM)
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My 0.02
Jaren Hall had two drives. first was, as expected, a dud. Second looked a lot better, and then BONG. the bell is rung.
Now we have a guy playing QB that has not practiced a snap with the team, didn't know most of the receivers full names. Barely had seen the playbook. And first drive he gets sacked for a safety. Next drive fumble!! Things weren't looking good for ye old vikings fans. He fumbled again later in the game.
But.
The defense, with the exception of one 60 yd TD play kept the Falcons out of the endzone when they could have put us away really early. They generated a couple turnovers themselves, turnover ratio on the day is 0. I get it we aren't exactly playing offensive juggernauts lately but, still, this Flores run defense has been doing pretty well and did well this game until Altanta figured out you can run the ball all day on us, drove the field and scored a go ahead TD late in the game.
I seriously don't understand why our opponents don't run the ball a lot more, it's been shown time and again that we get eaten up by the run.
Now about Dobbs. three bad plays really all game long. Two fumbles and one saftey. Other than that, he took control of the game. when plays broke down he used his legs to keep the play alive.
And this is a big and very important point to me: With less than two minutes left in EACH HALF, he managed to get us into the endzone. I am tempering my enthusiasm a bit because there is a reason he was available at the trade deadline. and a reason he's been this journeyman for so long. He really hasn't been that good.. but he may be, like Case Keenum before him, the perfect QB for this team, for this moment. I have no problem with him getting the starts from this point as he showed great leadership and poise in this game. He's earned next week. I hope next week he earns the next and so on and so forth until we are done...then we keep him at worst as the backup....because he just did what you need a backup to do...come in a win you a game.
And did all he did mostly without JJ, Osborn, and with the likes of Mundt, Oliver, Powell, Trishton Jackson. Ignorance is bliss, he didn't know he couldn't throw to these guys.
Now it sounds like Akers is out now with an Achilles. and we what little we had for a running game was because of Akers....Oy. How did we win?
Running I think we need to start giving Ty Chandler and Kene Nwangwu a lot more oppotunities. because Mattison is just not getting it done. But I will have to say to anyone that thinks Mattison is useless in the passing game. He had a pretty good catch and run in this one.
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