Mark C. Johnson
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Frustrating loss last night, for sure. Guess just years of being a jaded Viking, fan but pretty much played out as i expected the longer the game went on.
Some random thoughts
- I know Flores defense got beat late, but still crazy what he's been able to do with this unit. It has to be incredibly difficult for these guy to be in the right places after all their switches at the line, etc., but they continue to do it.
- The run defense continues to be pretty darn good. I was pretty harsh on this D line early in the season, but they are getting done. Jevonte Williams in no joke.
- Russel Wilson is so washed. Little annoying losing to him at this point in his career. Denver is going nowhere, and I"m sure at this point, they are trying to figure out the best way to get out of his awful contract. He killed them dinking an dunking, he has no deep ball. Bad DB play all night vs soft balls iMO.
- Our DBs just looked bad across the board. Not sure what Blackmon was doing on that Sutton TD, like he just watched the play happen in front of him. We have a thing with our CBs constantly getting Mossed. Mettelus drop was big. One thing I will say, is I don't know if I remember any PI calls on our secondary this year. Pretty crazy really. We have to be amongst the least penalized team in the league, in that area.
- IOL seemed awful last night, particularly in pass protection. Bradbury has no more ceiling, and we need to upgrade C badly. For all the hype on Risner, he showing maybe why he was sitting on his couch. He's not all that.
- Dobbs has been fun, but against a good D on the road, he showed his limitations. We have virtually no vertical passing game, but running Powell, Addison, KJ, you aint' gonna win me deep balls IMO. Those heaves are just diving me nuts. Needless to say he will pay big time for those eventually.
- Needless to say, was not a fan of running it twice late in the game at the 10 yard line.
- I guess at the end of the day, the game wasn't too costly. They ain't catching the Lions and that roster, but really just a matter of holding onto that 3rd playoff spot. The Bengals in Cincy without Burrow, will be no cake walk. That's still a very good roster.
- For me this is a bonus year anyway. I thought the team was highly overrated last year. this team may be better in a weird sort of way. You can see some corner stones of the future. The team will be in very good cap shape going into next year. Still need to get QB figured out. 23 draft looking better than 22. Let's just hope 22 is the anomaly and not 23
Agree with this post. There are more games this season to evaluate Dobbs. My take is that he's a backup, not a starter so yes keep looking for the QB. For a guy as smart as Dobbs is, he's really, really careless with the football. He doesn't seem very accurate, especially on deep passes. I think he'd add a very nice change up as a backup with his running ability. But, he's definitely limited in his skill set. I'd like to see Chandler start and Mattison be the backup. There were a few runs by Mattison where he made nice gains but I felt that a runner with more speed could have exploited those holes for much bigger gains. Odd how they drafted a running back this year that seems to be a Mattison clone rather than someone more dynamic.
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