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ORIGINAL: Ragnarök

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

Some who left fall into what David called the party line camp, but several more just find the negaphants to be the problem. It's one think to not like Kirk or Zimmer, but endless bleating just adds to the problems many of us experience when the team is underperforming.

And then there is the group who control so little in their lives, yet live and die on a play of a team that has been a perenial disapointment... Investing a portion of their psyche and sanity into said team to the point of being personally disturbed by the fellow posters on a board...

Its a game, its entertainment, its ups and downs and maybe playoffs if all goes right... its fun to speculate on what may make a team better or pile on when something seems to be holding the team back...

At the end of the day, I hug my children, kiss my wife and then come here and check out what the rest of you wrote, because its fun to be part of a community, but I never take anything personally and I dont let this team change how I will go through my life tomorrow...

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ORIGINAL: jbusse

Opponents converting 3rd downs at a 37% clip. At their peek a couple years back, Vikes held opponents to 25% 3rd down conversions. I guess they'll go back to drafting defense in the early rounds.

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

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ORIGINAL: jbusse

Opponents converting 3rd downs at a 37% clip. At their peek a couple years back, Vikes held opponents to 25% 3rd down conversions. I guess they'll go back to drafting defense in the early rounds.

Defense has really been regressing the last few games.

Zim has 2 weeks to fix it.

Bench Rhodes
Play Kearse more

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

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ORIGINAL: jbusse

Opponents converting 3rd downs at a 37% clip. At their peek a couple years back, Vikes held opponents to 25% 3rd down conversions. I guess they'll go back to drafting defense in the early rounds.

Defense has really been regressing the last few games.

Zim has 2 weeks to fix it.

Bench Rhodes
Play Kearse more

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ORIGINAL: Pager

From DailyNorseman POST OF THE YEAR!!:

Kirk F'n Cousins
Terrible line blocking.

No running game.

Questionable play calling.

20 point deficit.

Comeback for the ages.

All you Cousins haters, all you "Beeker" jackholes, do the right thing. Come on here and admit you’re morons. We know you are, you know you are… come on, admit you’re morons, admit you secretly (and weirdly) actually root for this team to lose so you can look right… admit it all. You’ll feel better.

Posted by oldschoolvikings on Nov 17, 2019 | 4:51 PM reply unrec (1)

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ORIGINAL: Ragnarök

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ORIGINAL: Pager

From DailyNorseman POST OF THE YEAR!!:

Kirk F'n Cousins
Terrible line blocking.

No running game.

Questionable play calling.

20 point deficit.

Comeback for the ages.

All you Cousins haters, all you "Beeker" jackholes, do the right thing. Come on here and admit you’re morons. We know you are, you know you are… come on, admit you’re morons, admit you secretly (and weirdly) actually root for this team to lose so you can look right… admit it all. You’ll feel better.

Posted by oldschoolvikings on Nov 17, 2019 | 4:51 PM reply unrec (1)

Would that really make you feel better after a game like this?

REALLY??

Kirk Cousins is taking us to the Super Bowl....

there, feel better?

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ORIGINAL: The Happy Norseman

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

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ORIGINAL: jbusse

Opponents converting 3rd downs at a 37% clip. At their peek a couple years back, Vikes held opponents to 25% 3rd down conversions. I guess they'll go back to drafting defense in the early rounds.

Defense has really been regressing the last few games.

Zim has 2 weeks to fix it.

Bench Rhodes
Play Kearse more

Remarkably, the Vikings are now closer to elite on the offensive side of the ball than on defense. They've got studs at every skill position. Add 2 interior offensive linemen and they are a top unit in the NFL. If RS is still with the Vikings next year, he needs to realize that fact and act accordingly i.e. do whatever it takes to get those 2 guards in FA or through the draft. On the defensive side of the ball they can save money by losing Rhodes, Waynes and Griffin. The D needs a serious personnel shakeup next year.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

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ORIGINAL: jbusse

Opponents converting 3rd downs at a 37% clip. At their peek a couple years back, Vikes held opponents to 25% 3rd down conversions. I guess they'll go back to drafting defense in the early rounds.

Defense has really been regressing the last few games.

Zim has 2 weeks to fix it.

Bench Rhodes
Play Kearse more

If he's not going to bench Rhodes, at least don't have him shadow the other team's top receiver for a half. Sutton just made Rhodes his bitch.

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

The biggest problem with the DBs is that neither is a shutdown corner any more.....so we have to move on from them, cut their salary, and/or play more zone.

Is that the coaches fault when DBs fall from grace so hard and quick?

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ORIGINAL: Ragnarök

Paul Charchian
@PaulCharchian
Kirk Cousins has thrown 177 passes without an interception, the longest active streak in the NFL, and the longest by a Viking in 24 years.

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ORIGINAL: SteveR

Defense is kaput. We can't rely on it. We need to score points. No more philosophy where we got the lead, let's get conservative and let the defense take us home. Score. Score. Score.

I think the last two games are the type of games Bill Barnwell says teams will get one year and then not get the next year. If Dallas would not have run twice in their final series last week, they had us. If the Broncos QB was a smidge more experienced, I think they would have had us today, too, on that final series. But they didn't, so we take the Ws and run.

And the Vikes deserve credit for giving themselves a chance to get those Ws. We scored enough to get the lead in both games. We put ourselves in positions where things could go our way.

Onto Seattle. That will be a good test. Too bad we have a bye week. I'd rather we tried to keep rolling.

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

The Eagles lost. They are pretty much eliminated since we have the tie breaker with them and we are up two games with five to play.

Checking this website, it says we have a 91% chance of making the playoffs now. I think that's about right. We also have an 8% chance of winning the Super Bowl. Based on today's disappointing play I would say that it a bit high, but indeed the important thing is making the playoffs where the season beings again.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-nfl-predictions/

edit: Also notice that only four teams have a better chance of winning the Super Bowl than the Vikings. Interesting.

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

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ORIGINAL: The Happy Norseman

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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

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ORIGINAL: jbusse

Opponents converting 3rd downs at a 37% clip. At their peek a couple years back, Vikes held opponents to 25% 3rd down conversions. I guess they'll go back to drafting defense in the early rounds.

Defense has really been regressing the last few games.

Zim has 2 weeks to fix it.

Bench Rhodes
Play Kearse more

Remarkably, the Vikings are now closer to elite on the offensive side of the ball than on defense. They've got studs at every skill position. Add 2 interior offensive linemen and they are a top unit in the NFL. If RS is still with the Vikings next year, he needs to realize that fact and act accordingly i.e. do whatever it takes to get those 2 guards in FA or through the draft. On the defensive side of the ball they can save money by losing Rhodes, Waynes and Griffin. The D needs a serious personnel shakeup next year.

I think they keep Griffin but lose/cut/trade Waynes, Rhodes, and Joseph.

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

I'm still in touch with some stalwarts who have left this site because it devolves into a suicide hotline dominated by negativity and nervous nellies. I stay because I have a sense of community/history with this place and some of the people here, but it's very hard. We all fan in our own ways, but some voices just saturate the the site with complaints and wails and bleats and know-it-all-ism. I'm not talking about being a pollyanna; prohibitions on expressing negatives are just as bad. But there are a handful of posters that embody exactly the sentiment that Pager posted from another site: they'd rather be right about their complaints than win.

We've lost a lot of good posters to this shit, and my guess is we'll lose more. I may soon be one of them.

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ORIGINAL: David F.

Is it negative posters ‘driving people away’ or is it that some posters have a compulsive need to control the narrative and can’t tolerate personalities that refuse to conform? Some of both. Plenty of both.

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ORIGINAL: Tim Cady

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ORIGINAL: Pager

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ORIGINAL: Tim Cady

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ORIGINAL: Pager

From DailyNorseman POST OF THE YEAR!!:

Kirk F'n Cousins
Terrible line blocking.

No running game.

Questionable play calling.

20 point deficit.

Comeback for the ages.

All you Cousins haters, all you "Beeker" jackholes, do the right thing. Come on here and admit you’re morons. We know you are, you know you are… come on, admit you’re morons, admit you secretly (and weirdly) actually root for this team to lose so you can look right… admit it all. You’ll feel better.

Posted by oldschoolvikings on Nov 17, 2019 | 4:51 PM reply unrec (1)

Kirk has been great since October. Even with the fumble lost today he was spectacular. I am just not sure he is our future, he is a three year rental and we could have taken Lamar Jackson at 30 versus Mike Hughes. Pyramid building quarterbacks. Still mad about Ponder and then not addressing in 2012 when they knew they had nothing in him. Loved Teddy pick although once he had the injury it was tough. Had to go with Cousins, but I don't agree with no competition even with guaranteed contract.

I'm a fan of the Denny Green/Bill B approach to QB drafting. I was upset with Hughes over Oline. Jackson wasn't on my radar, to be totally honest.

I'll be at the next game - IN SEATTLE!

Watch out for my cousin Jamie, she does not like opposing fans in her stadium! I am still pining Russell Wilson in 2012. Never get over Fraiser raving about him in senior bowl and Vikings never considering him, even when he fell to 3rd. I was all over Lamar Jackson even in draftday thread I stated I wish we had the balls to draft him. His style is the new style in the NFL. We need to get early lead in Seattle. See how Packers are coming off bye to play SF. Wish they could both lose sorry about Cardinals one 4th and one away from victory end up losing by 10.

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

Rudy keeps finding the end zone of late.

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

Rudy keeps finding the end zone of late.

The 'old guard' is doing just fine.

Whipping boys Zimmer, Cousins, Rudy, Sendejo all seem to be doing just fine.

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ORIGINAL: kgdabom

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

Rudy keeps finding the end zone of late.

Do we all still hate Rudy and believe we screwed the pooch extending him?

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ORIGINAL: Ragnarök

Paul Charchian
@PaulCharchian
Kirk Cousins has thrown 177 passes without an interception, the longest active streak in the NFL, and the longest by a Viking in 24 years.