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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:14:34 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

We really don't have physical WR....TJ and Nailor are the two slant inside guys. I agree with that all year.....very few slants except to those two.

The "best wr in the game" and Addison can't run slants?

Did Moss run many slants? They run crossing patterns not slants.

I saw Moss catch a lot of slants.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:14:43 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

Yup. A few of us have noticed this. He hates the slant routes it seems

O'Connell is a style points guy. Get the ball to the divas for big plays.

He showed no patience over the past two weeks. Sometime you have to win ugly.

I don't think I was watching the same game as you. He couldn't hit on screen passes to Jones last night and couldn't hit TJ either week. The TD drive last night was great plays made by Nailor and TJ on poor throws....but continue on your Pro Sam rant.

Sam didn't play well. Again, you'll get no argument on that (but keep looking for one).

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:15:26 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

We really don't have physical WR....TJ and Nailor are the two slant inside guys. I agree with that all year.....very few slants except to those two.

The "best wr in the game" and Addison can't run slants?

Did Moss run many slants? They run crossing patterns not slants.

I didn't see many short crosser, or motion. Motion is always a good way to get guy of press man.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:17:29 AM

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ORIGINAL: Arlowe84

I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

We really don't have physical WR....TJ and Nailor are the two slant inside guys. I agree with that all year.....very few slants except to those two.

The "best wr in the game" and Addison can't run slants?

Did Moss run many slants? They run crossing patterns not slants.

I saw Moss catch a lot of slants.

You know the difference between crossing patterns and slants? Moss ran very few slants---shallow crossing patterns, posts, outs, and a lot of goes. CC and Jake were the slant guys.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:18:33 AM

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We're still on the right path. The team overachieved, and the 14 wins put a target on their back. Even when they were at 9 wins, however a cup cake path of AFC South foes followed by games vs reeling division rivals inflated the perception.

They made plays in Detroit on defense but couldn't close the deal. The season and all of that momentum was lost right there.

The team hasn't been in such a good position since 2015. With JJ on a rookie deal, beef up the IOL, draft one of the Buckeye running backs in the 2nd/3rd round and the offense should still be humming.

The D is the side that seems unsustainable to me though.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:18:50 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

We really don't have physical WR....TJ and Nailor are the two slant inside guys. I agree with that all year.....very few slants except to those two.

The "best wr in the game" and Addison can't run slants?

Did Moss run many slants? They run crossing patterns not slants.

I didn't see many short crosser, or motion. Motion is always a good way to get guy of press man.

Precisely. Then, when they did complete a bubble screen to a wide receiver Nailor would miss his block. It was a complete collapse when they tried to do it, because it was very apparent they hadn't practiced it all week. Short dumpoffs and crossing patters should have been the game plan from the beginning, not something to suddenly turn to when you are down 24.

Just like last week, we would get to the other team's 40 with dumpoffs and the running game and suddenly go away from it. It was like watching Groundhogs Day.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:20:08 AM

Richard Neussendorfer

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

We really don't have physical WR....TJ and Nailor are the two slant inside guys. I agree with that all year.....very few slants except to those two.

The "best wr in the game" and Addison can't run slants?

Did Moss run many slants? They run crossing patterns not slants.

I saw Moss catch a lot of slants.

You know the difference between crossing patterns and slants? Moss ran very few slants---shallow crossing patterns, posts, outs, and a lot of goes. CC and Jake were the slant guys.

Isn't Moss a big receiver? I saw him catch some but as we all know he was a much better deep threat. Apparently JJ is neither.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:21:48 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

Yup. A few of us have noticed this. He hates the slant routes it seems

O'Connell is a style points guy. Get the ball to the divas for big plays.

He showed no patience over the past two weeks. Sometime you have to win ugly.

I don't think I was watching the same game as you. He couldn't hit on screen passes to Jones last night and couldn't hit TJ either week. The TD drive last night was great plays made by Nailor and TJ on poor throws....but continue on your Pro Sam rant.

Sam didn't play well. Again, you'll get no argument on that (but keep looking for one).

KOC Style points? Sam makes the throws and the checks. He was throwing to TJ, Oliver, Jones, and Ham to try to get something going....those are style point throws?

6 targets to TJ, 5 targets to Nailor and 6 to Jones refutes that claim. KOC wasn't just trying to get the ball to JJ----

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:23:37 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

Yup. A few of us have noticed this. He hates the slant routes it seems

O'Connell is a style points guy. Get the ball to the divas for big plays.

He showed no patience over the past two weeks. Sometime you have to win ugly.

I don't think I was watching the same game as you. He couldn't hit on screen passes to Jones last night and couldn't hit TJ either week. The TD drive last night was great plays made by Nailor and TJ on poor throws....but continue on your Pro Sam rant.

Sam didn't play well. Again, you'll get no argument on that (but keep looking for one).

KOC Style points? Sam makes the throws and the checks. He was throwing to TJ, Oliver, Jones, and Ham to try to get something going....those are style point throws?

6 targets to TJ, 5 targets to Nailor and 6 to Jones refutes that claim. KOC wasn't just trying to get the ball to JJ----

Right. And then as soon as they crossed midfield he would go away from it. Next thing you know, Darnold is laying on his back with a sack and now they were behind the chains.

He has zero patience. Football is a war of attrition, and every time O'Connell would flinch first. You have to be smarter, and understand it's a 60-minute game. If they are giving you plays underneath, take them until they show a desire to stop them.

McVay was stealing candy from a baby.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:23:49 AM

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I can't watch Manning Cast when the Vikings are playing, but folks are saying they were being pretty critical of WR play calling?

No slants, crossers, guys in motion, etc.

Seems KOC fell in love with deep throws. Not a great recipe when team are playing press man on your WRs with safeties deep and your IOL not holding up for 6 seconds.

Yup. A few of us have noticed this. He hates the slant routes it seems

O'Connell is a style points guy. Get the ball to the divas for big plays.

He showed no patience over the past two weeks. Sometime you have to win ugly.

I don't think I was watching the same game as you. He couldn't hit on screen passes to Jones last night and couldn't hit TJ either week. The TD drive last night was great plays made by Nailor and TJ on poor throws....but continue on your Pro Sam rant.

Sam didn't play well. Again, you'll get no argument on that (but keep looking for one).

KOC Style points? Sam makes the throws and the checks. He was throwing to TJ, Oliver, Jones, and Ham to try to get something going....those are style point throws?

6 targets to TJ, 5 targets to Nailor and 6 to Jones refutes that claim. KOC wasn't just trying to get the ball to JJ----

Well JJ was busy getting locked down.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:28:14 AM

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I would have liked to seen the all 22 to see how the receivers were faring. Btw can't they simply give us this in game option?

It felt like the Rams DBs stood them up on the stem of their routes. Much of that is predicated on DBs having no fear the OLine can hold up or that Darnold could buy time or simply make the proper read.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:32:40 AM

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Darnold is also decent on the run. He can make plays with his feet and throws well on the run. Much like last week, Los Angeles took away escape routes and forced him to stay in the pocket. I was texting my buddies all night wondering why we weren't running bootlegs or rolling him out. Create time for the guy. Your offensive line is awful. When O'Connell did roll him out, he did it to the wrong side of the field and had him throwing against his body the opposite way (just stupid).

Again, there was so much incompetence in O'Connell that I could post the mistakes all day long. But the bottom line is, the season is over and now it is time to address the obvious needs. The o-line has to be upgraded a ton. It's just awful. That has to be job #1 in the off-season. With a rookie quarterback taking over, you had better be a lot better up front or he'll be injured for a second time by midseason.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:40:02 AM

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I wish I could go off the grid. Check in once a year after Championship Sunday and see if the Vikings made the SB. If they did…stay hooked up for a couple of weeks and enjoy. If not click off and only waste a tiny bit of time thinking about them.

I don’t want to go through all this again.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:44:47 AM

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I’m trying to think who on the team isn’t a bum now. Can’t do it. They’re all bums.

And our cheerleaders are mid.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:44:52 AM

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I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:46:34 AM

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Even JJM is a bum. Not taking the manly surgery and being available this year.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:47:16 AM

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I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

I think your sentiments are going to be very popular. It closes another chapter in being a Vikings fan.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:47:38 AM

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I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

Good post Lars. They were frauds. I'm actually glad I don't have to watch that wreck any more. Philly would've absolutely embarrassed us. Even on their bad day.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:49:49 AM

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I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

Good post Lars. They were frauds. I'm actually glad I don't have to watch that wreck any more. Philly would've absolutely embarrassed us. Even on their bad day.

My hunch is Philly will be playing in the Super Bowl. They did everything they could to protect Hurts last weekend. At some point they will take off the gloves. That team is amazingly good up front on both sides of the ball.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:51:13 AM

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I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

Good post Lars. They were frauds. I'm actually glad I don't have to watch that wreck any more. Philly would've absolutely embarrassed us. Even on their bad day.

My hunch is Philly will be playing in the Super Bowl. They did everything they could to protect Hurts last weekend. At some point they will take off the gloves. That team is amazingly good up front on both sides of the ball.

Agreed. I think they are the most complete NFC team.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:51:14 AM

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I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

Good post Lars. They were frauds. I'm actually glad I don't have to watch that wreck any more. Philly would've absolutely embarrassed us. Even on their bad day.

My hunch is Philly will be playing in the Super Bowl. They did everything they could to protect Hurts last weekend. At some point they will take off the gloves.

I wouldn't be shocked at all by that. Probably the most complete NFC team.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:51:18 AM

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Even JJM is a bum. Not taking the manly surgery and being available this year.

Tore meniscus? 2 choices out 4 weeks with a chance of it getting worse or full year. Doctor decided that during the surgery of severity.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:52:31 AM

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I wish I could go off the grid. Check in once a year after Championship Sunday and see if the Vikings made the SB. If they did…stay hooked up for a couple of weeks and enjoy. If not click off and only waste a tiny bit of time thinking about them.

I don’t want to go through all this again.

Me too, I long for the day when I feel the Vikings have the right football management in place to build a team from the ground up. I feel like every freaking year, we are filling holes on the ship. We fill one, but another one pops up.

I'm jealous of teams like KC, Det, Bal, Buffalo, Philly, etc.. They build their team from the draft, strong personnel departments, with young guys ready to take the reigns. We have none of that. A good season here or there, but it always seems somewhat fraudulent with few conerstones for the future.

Why does it seem we end every stiking year with more questions than answers?

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:52:40 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lars

I said hold off on signing Darnold to a fat contract and stand by that. Personally, I would let him walk. Two big games and he played very poorly. Lots of guys have piled up a some nice stats over a small sample size and then reverted to the mean. I think we just saw that happen. He held the ball way too long, had poor pocket awareness and was wildly inaccurate. I can get that from D. Jones, and he is a better runner. Hard pass.

Coach up the rookie and spend the money some wanted to spend on a $40M+ QB for more help on defense and especially OL.

This team outkicked its coverage for performance for the year. BUFF, KC, BAL would have killed them. Hell, I think PHI would have criuhed them. Watch what happens to LAR when they head in there next week. Saquon is gonna go OFF!

Good post Lars. They were frauds. I'm actually glad I don't have to watch that wreck any more. Philly would've absolutely embarrassed us. Even on their bad day.

My hunch is Philly will be playing in the Super Bowl. They did everything they could to protect Hurts last weekend. At some point they will take off the gloves. That team is amazingly good up front on both sides of the ball.

Agreed. I think they are the most complete NFC team.

NFL network talked about them and their Def Playcaller LB Dean tore his Patella.....that will hurt but they have the most talent up there with Detroit, Buffalo, and KC.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 1/14/2025 9:52:45 AM

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Saquon dropped 250 on them last time. Looking at the Rams they really hadn't played that well down the stretch. They could have easily lost to the Cards at home. They really haven't been overly impressive aside from the 2 Vikes games and vs the Bills. McVay with an extra week to prepare and getting the Vikes twice coming off tough losses to the Lions helps.

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