MDK -> RE: Vikes talk for Twins Fans (11/1/2016 10:28:24 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser The biggest issue it the play calling. Everyone on the planet knows our OLine sucks. So what does Norv game plan around? Trying to establish a running game with a very mediocre RB. Brilliant. First play of the game was Asiata to the right for about 1/2 a yard. I looked at my wife and said "yup, we are getting beat tonight". It's incredibly predictive and any idiot coordinator can figure out exactly what we are going to do. Hell, I can so I know they can. All the talk, all week, is that our Line is in trouble. He comes out and exploits their weaknesses yet it never seems to get brought up. He gives them know chance to succeed. We need to run an offense similar to what we did with Tark back in the 70's. The line then was bad enough that there was no chance of establishing a running game, so they didn't bother trying. Instead they ran a lot of quick short passing routes that chewed up about 4-7 yards. Get the defense to cheat up to cover the short stuff and then stretch it out. My favorite game was a Thursday night game against Dallas in Dallas. They came into the game 6-2 and we were 4-4. They were dominating and the Vikings were very ordinary. Despite having played on Sunday, Bud Grant threw in a completely different offensive formation for the Thursday night game. In those days, the Vikings did very little shifting when they came up to the offensive line. That night, the team was shifting all over the place....something we had seen from the Cowboys but never from the Vikings. They won 21 to 10 and had a 21 to 3 lead at halftime. There was no way the Vikings should have won that game. Foreman had a huge game with over 100 yards rushing and 5 receptions for 30+ yards. Tark was 18 of 32 for 139 yards......short but effective passes that took zero time to develop. The Cowboys were on their heels all night long. It was perhaps the best game plan I have ever seen the Vikings create and execute. They weren't that good. they finished 8-7-1 for the season, got 1st in the division and were crushed by the Rams in the first round. They gave up 12 more points than they scored. But they carved up the Cowboys that night. Dallas went 12-4 that season, lost the super bowl to the Steelers 35-31 in one of the most entertaining super bowls of all time.
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