Walter Payton, who many compare AP too in running style, had way more fumbles then AP in his first 3 yesrs. PAYTON had 30 to AP's 20.  With that said, AP is making progress on the blocking and receiving.. I dont think he will be hopeless like troy williamson.

 

Are we gonna keep chester taylor?  =/       I hope we can

 

Ugh, of all the games for the vikings to get fumbleitis...   Its' too bad we didnt get any long looks at ROSENFELS all year, i dont think he got a snap?  I have NO iudea how those guys would fare. I assume they learned a lot working with FAVRE all year.

Imagine if we had a QB who could do those little things FAVRE does AND scramble when he has the room... 

so he lost 6 fumbles. so what, three starting running backs lost 5 with less carries. but here we are all worried.

 

will he fumble? i doubt it. lets not get so worried. he is still very special. so he had a meager 1300 yards and pitiful 17 Tds this year (psss haha)

 

he can and will do his thing tomorrow. this is a big chance for him. i dont care if he gets 14 carries or 28. he will do his thing tomorrow. i just feel strongly about it.

 

the media has a crappy memory, they just say the easiest, safest thing. they jock momentum but we all know the stats on that. its an even matchup but we're more explosive. i wish we had a CB like rivas from the jets then we'd be just scary.      berrian might show up. hell, these kinds of games weirs stuff happens. remember reggie rutland in 1987? rookie pic 6 against joe montana?

 

i think we will have a hero tomorrow and it won't be favre or rice or shanks.. it will be reynaud or someone pulling their weight. or some weird defensive TD. who knows. i hope we can get an interception we avg one like every other game it's lame

 

enjoy the game

it's always about execution, turnovers and penalties. period.

 

this year, last year, all our losses, we had more turnovers and costly penalties.

 

people wanted us to blow the lions out.. shame we had 2 turnovers in the red zone. I know people yesterday were mad about the bob schnelcker "give up" draw play on third down that ame up short 2 yards.. we settled for a field goal.

people last year moaned about our lack of a hurry up offense or 5 WR set etc. our clock management. they said then and say now how sucky CHILLY is and back it up with a few examples. i have agreed with 95% of chilly's clock decisions, red flag challenges, onside kicks etc.   i never get mad when a play doesnt work, because A i dont know who called it, if it was an audible... and usually it doesnt work because of a missed block, dropped pass, bad throw etc.  I am also not allergic to punting like a lot of the under 30 yr old crowd seems to be and i hate fantasy football and betting on lines so i dont have dumb alternate agendas ruining my game. all i care about is winning and there is nothing wrong with punting!

so i want everyone's take on yesterdays goings on, NOT chilldress and co but the coaching decisions in jacksonville and new england!!

 

go for it on 4th and 2 on your own 28 with no TOs?  why didnt he have time outs? i've never sen chilly put himself in a situaiton like that! last year even though we got into fg range and converted every time we had to in first and 2nd half endings people still bitched! (i say it's ballsy what NE did..why not... but if it was CHILLDRESS and not Bellichick people would be soooooo mad)

 

tell your RB to take a knee on the one, then run more plays, drain the clock and kick a fg instead of taking the TD and being up 6 with a minute left?  (i disagree)

 

OKOK how about chilly goes for it on fourth and 1. we all wanted too. but he gives it to dugan instead of AP. he didnt get the first. i bet all the chilly haters got mad at that no? why not give it to AP etc? well i will let someone else explain why a quick hitting FB play might work better, or even a QB sneak.. and how the LBs are all aiming for AP on the play. our center just got blown up, he Fd up!

 

in other news i always bitched "why dont we ever lateral or pitch the ball" hahaha way to go AP now we never will again!  =/     they do in rugby 75 times a game and never drop it.. i wish we could be more flexible in that regard.. run options, pitch outs.. etc

Yup.   I'm back. I just wanted to say a couple things.

Look at the franchise that knocked us out of the playoffs two years ago. The washington  Redskins.  Look at the Tampa Bay BUCS.. look at the Browns and the Lions.

Focus on how quickly they went from good to bad. focus on how long they went from bad to still bad.

Then look at the year by year progress of CHILLY.

He got rid of the bad blood. He brought in key free agents. Retained great free agents. Made great drafts.

You can gripe about his play calling that one time in PITTSBURGH..  or on some goal line stands and FG settlings.  (even though we rank high in red zone)  you can argue hypotheticals all you want.

But now "he" is 7-1. Even if we lose in the first round of the playoffs.. he deserves super props, because our team, Aside form Favre and Pat Williams, is quite youthfull!      We have a great future!

Have any of you guys come around yet to see the "big picture" and see how franchises are ran? It's not a quick fix. I know, if we didnt have favre, we'd easily be 4 and 3 right now.  But we have him, and he's the main reason why. If we didn't have trestman, our current roster, and if CHILLY wasn't willing to stick his head out for him and keep after him, he wouldn't be here.

We should all be in a pretty great mood here on the bye, no major injuries... 7 and 1... easy schedule coming up. I am excited and I know all of you are, but all you people that wanted to fire childress were being impatient, short sighted and "roobish. "

Look how bad the SKINS got.. look how AWFUL the seahawks are. they have/had as much talent as we do!  Just not a great coach =p   Look at the TITANS!  wtf?!  We have a solid stable team even when favre and Pat WIlliams leave. we will be ok!

May as well give CHILLY a 2 year extension. He built the team in the first 3 years.. now he's got some time to win it all or get close.

skol vikes

can ALL the writers who actually get PAID to write (see - not amateurs like me who CAPS things when they wanna make a point) make an effort?

POINT - it doesn't make a difference if the D BACK or LB who is one half a step behind  our receiver is a "starter" or an all pro or  a scrub... if the QB throws a perfectly timed pass right on the numbers in stride, it's a great pass. I don't care if INDY didn't start their starters. can we stop being so lazy please? if there was no one covering them those passes would still be impressive.

if i was an editor at the strib my stories would be thus 1. rosenfels looks real real confident and solid  2. where is percy harvin?  3. our defensive line starters to the 83rd player looked real good.  4. how did our new center do? 5 brad chilly's beard. 6. our backup RBs kicked ass which proves that our O Line is good good

 

i  just resent these people sometimes they just mail in crap it's a joke job it takes no skill or anything its just access and credentials. 

 

skooooool you know whos!

 

 

Everywhere I look he gets dismissed for this or that... Belive me, I've seen all the "great white hopes" come in and out of the league.. people taller then K  Love with a better jumper even. HE is just "special" in certain ways.  

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I ever heard...

 

 

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access to the films. the over head ones they use. Even during telecasts they rarely show us what is gong on AWAY from the ball. Did they get open? were they covered? Sure, we can see it in replays some times... but i wish it was more like  european cable. when you can hit one button on your remote and get a DIFFERENT camera angle. or one that is always on one player. it's interesting.

 

imagine a totally user friendly broadcast.. when instead of givig us crap promos in between plays and such.. they could tell us what play they just ran.. what the defense was.. they could do more of that stuff. they do it sometimes.. but it would be nice. so we could see the tendencies an such.. see the strategy. i know a lot of it is self evident, we see traps and draws, end aronds.. play action. button up. the basics.. but still.

 

if you go by popular opinion here it sounds like we run the ball 90 percent of first downs. but we don't!  (anyone have a stat on that)

 

And in regards to calling plays.. sometimes it just comes down to "touches" sometimes AP avgs 2.8 yards a carry if you take away one big one, and sometimes he avgs 7 yards a carry with no big ones. obviously the second one is better. he did OK in the playoff game. busted a big one.. just the usual play... off tackle.

 

you'd think it would be EASY to get a WR open with 9 men in the box. but it clearly isn't. are the coordinators/play callers that dumb? (no)  so what is happening? Why don't they ever show us.. was our QB just following one guy? did he go through a progression and everyone was covered one on one? did protection break down?

 

it would be so much better if we had more FACTS. because unless you're at the game and watching the whole field.. we're left to just judge plays on if they worked or not.. not WHY they worked or didn't work. i dont think there are any geniuses.. i dont believe it's possible for one man to be so much smarter then the next when they all live and sleep football.. there are some play callers that go by percentages.. some that go by momentum.. some that go by the time of possession or play for field position, some that  like to do hurry ups with 4 receivers just to mess with the defense .. depends on the players and such.

 

my "ethos" would be common sense. mis-matches.. and playing to my players strengths.  we all know it's somewhat of a CHESS game so for every man there is that says that we're "predictable" there is a defense out there that is too.

 

some teams just run a tampa two shell. they dont need gimmicky stunts, blitzes from the corner or zones. because their men can play one on one and create pressure from just a four man rush, they can jam receivers.. they can disrupt routes. we aren't that defense. we stop runs.. we hope they can make passes. our four man rush sucks if they roll out AWAY form jared allen.

 

we struggle against physical teams... just how it is. and in my opinion it is due to our lack of ass kickers. maybe that will change. one more "weapon" to put in the mix, to "keep offense" honest.

 

so all biases aside, if that is the case.. and we jump to a top ten offense. what will that say about chilly? i read and listen to all the interviews, dcasts.. what he says is real common sense. he said (of the 2005 team) that we didnt have any explosion. (chester taylor was our most explosive player) then he went out and got it. now in spades...

 

he said we didnt have a good pass rush.. he fixed that.  now he's fixing the other problems. it DOESNT take a genius to do things.. no one is perfect. but so many of the arguments on here are based on people selective and entireley subjective biased memories. i sure hope PERCY can catch those little underneath or flat routes and turn them into first downs and "big plays"

 

(like people who hate DENNIS GREEN still gripe about him taking a knee. which i thought was wussy style btw. but no one even remembers that on the falcons tying drive we DROPPED 2 interceptions that would have ended the game! momentum wise all things point to gary andersons miss i know i know.. btu other things factor in)

 

 

so it used to be you could keep multiple profiles..

 

(up to four which was dumb, why have a limit with all the memory nowadays)

 

track user stats. head to head.. etc.

 

so after playing 100 games you and your friends B, C, and D could all see who likes to throw, who plays good run defense.. who is good at kicking etc etc. who's the KING ( i was usually since i played realistically and i didnt get influenced too much by beverages etc)

 

Now with the PS3 and these gay user profiles on the SYSTEM.. i could never figure out how to play my friends (in the same room at the same time, not online) and keep track of stats.

 

Am I the only person left in the world that HATES online gaming and prefers to play with his real live friends  in person? isn't that half the fun?

 

I miss the old days, I miss bond and time splitter 4 way fights.. i miss mad stats.

 

the games these days are all for loser 14 yr olds with no real friends, all the memory is dedicated to useless crap. i wish we could purchase a "shell" of a game and customize it.. i would have just tons of human on human options. very little online. online is always wack people play the best teams and do stupid crap just to build their stats and record.. (especially with soccer games)

 

am i dumb though? is there a way to keep track on madden of my friends and I- our stats? i could never figure it out

one more player. one more trade etc.  

 

(and im not one for speculation but i feel this is the kind of thing/player we need)

 

It would be Troy Polamalu. Not a QB. Someone like him or Ray Lewis.. someone who has had rings. makes plays and lifts everyone up. (in the secondary) we have a real "quiet" secondary. I love how they hit.. how they own the run game.. but no QBs are scared to throw it all over the field on us. just something i was thinking whilst reading all the articles about our new picks. (btw he's only 5'10. i am sick of people saying that's "short" he can obviously ball a little no? =)

Which did you prefer?

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(And call out the people who say CHILLY/BEVELL can't utilize players or be creative...)

 

 

This is a blog about the huge percentage of people that like to hate on our coaches or be negative just because they're homer expectations weren't fullfilled yet.

 

 

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Why people say he will make duh Bears the "team to beat" is beyond me.  Even if he is 20 percent better across the board he still won't matter... This is why I don't like all these "writers" who speculate on espn etc.  Orton did not suck.. he was pretty decent.

 

Against NFC NORTH teams  ORTON compiled the following stats.  (6 games)

 

1,134 yards.  7 TDs   5 Ints (all five were in two games VS Us and The Pack... in the other 4 games he had zero interceptions)

 

I'd also like to point out that when i tracked matt forte's numbers in the same games he was pretty much cancelled out in all of them but one game where he got off against the LIONS. (he had 3 TDs and avg 20 carries for 68 yards) Turns out the NFC north has some pretty good run defenses. even in detroit!

 

So only in that one game did Orton receive significant help from his stud RB.

 

"He" was 4-2 in his division.

 

Now people really think CUTLER is gonna do SIGNIFICANTLY better?

 

I don't. I'm not scared. I can't wait until we knock him out of a game!!!

 

skol vikes

mock chicken. mock duck

wtf?

 

Why do people waste to much time? I know it's fine to speculate a little... play manager etc but still.

 

What is the accuracy of these projections? that these players will be any good at all in the NFL. is there a stat for it?

 

Remember mike williams 3 or 4 years ago, first round WR beast.. USC, 6'5 and projected to be a good WR. he was a total bust. so was our guy WIlliamson.. only Braylon Edwards produced from those top 10 picks!

 

We have had two HEISMAN TROPY WINNERS on our team in the last 15 years and neither of them could break into the STARTING LINE UP.  Chris Weinke and Gino Torretta.

 

meanwhile some of the best players ever were drafted 6th, or not even drafted at all. tons and tons of them... brady, john randle, jerry rice (ok 16th overall.. the niners, then champs. moved up to get him but still...they said he was "slow" at a 4.6 forty. man those 40 dash numbers mean nothing!)

 

So why do people act like they know anything at all? I personally think people just look silly when they say so and so is gonna be a good or bad QB in the NFL.. or CB.. or RB.

 

remember DJ DOZIER? Ron Dayne? how about kijana carter? BUST.. he was taken like 2 rounds BEFORE curtis martin. OR Blair Thomas.. ever heard of him? bust RB taken 15 picks before emmitt smith,. Lawrence Phillips.  6th overall pick. bust.. never played past his 2nd year.

anyways.. im just ranting.

 

I wonder if there is anyone else out there who really doesn't pay that much attention to the draft until AFTER it's over?

Just a repost from OCTOBER.. since there is not much going on.  I know people are pretty polarized over him.  I think the haters are fantasy football minded rubes who hate punting

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my take on why people need to build the damn thing

(sorry format is a little off.. i haven't figured out the html differences yet)

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HEY PURPLE PEOPLE

So this is my take on what we really need...

 

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EM⋅BOLD⋅IN

    [em-bohl-duhn]  –verb (used with object)

to make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage your fans and team morale by trading for a world class WR named Anquan Boldin

Hey Vikes!!?!

PLEASE  try to get him. Wisenhunt said they'd take a 1st and 3rd round pick. It's totally worth it. He's a bruiser and that's what we need. He's got RAC skills, blocking skills, hands. Rumor is he is being shopped to PITT and BALTIMORE etc... It wouldn't be fair if the STEELWHORES got him.

Please try.
Thanks!

 

 

All they do is speculate, pontificate and regurgitate.

 

 

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