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720pete wrote: It is worse in its own unique way. The Browns flat out suck every year and never have a good nucleus of players to be excited about.

The Vikings are always interesting enough to be excited about, and we are perpetually "one or two drafts or a couple good free agent acquisitions" away from the Superbowl, but it never actually happens. We are like the NFC factory of sadness.

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Nope that's Detroit.

Pondering Her Percy wrote: We outplayed that team tonight.

We had 3 FUMBLES

Pondering Her Percy wrote: they had no turnovers.

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This game is on Wright and that abortion of a call on the reverse. Jesus.

All in all I think if Barr is healthy they win this game. Kendricks seemed to get at up in coverage on some big third downs. My brain could be making that up tho.

As good of a loss as you can get. In the regular season, anyways.

Norv turner is still a titanic imbecile. Two weeks in a row with drive stalling reverses. Genius.

PurpleMustReign wrote:
Then they shouldn't even run a play. You don't dick around with taking time off the clock in that situation with our OL. This, I am afraid, is on Zimmer, if that is the case.

This is exactly what I think too, PMR. I still just dont get it. Where they afraid of leaving a few more seconds on the clock? You dont take the chance of a turnover. You dont have time to run it. Why not just kick the FG for a chance at OT. Did Zimmer really just blame Teddy and say he was supposed to throw it away out of bounds? WTH. Kick the FG first. Or have the stones to admit you wanted to take a quick shot at the endzone.

Someone please explain this to me.

Just heard Zimmer's explanation of the final play. Told Teddy he can't complete the ball in bounds - gotta hit a sideline throw. That's pretty tough for a 23 year old. I'm guessing Teddy clutched it because he thought, if the pass was completed, we would have been tackled in bounds since we were blanketed. Zimmer didn't mention anything about Teddy needing to throw the ball away in the clip I heard.

Football38 wrote:Zimmer in the press conference, just said that the play was supposed to go out of bounds. This is on Bridgewater unfortunately.

To what WR at the sideline?

Mercy Percy wrote:In the words of Aaron Rodgers, R E L A X relax.

How DARE you quote Aaron Rodgers to me!

I'm not panicking. I expected them to lose some of these games, although I didn't expect the blowouts.

We lost to 3 playoff teams that are going to be contending for a SUPER BOWL, without our best defensive players, lets be happy this wasn't a blow out. Yes it sucks we lost but we hung in there fought hard against a great team. We will make the playoffs and if we are healthy will be a tough team to go up against.

I certainly hope so. I'm encouraged by the way they played tonight. After Sunday's game, I wasn't sure what to expect.

Did they mention if it was supposed to be a deep throw? Sounds like he was supposed to look to the sidelines and not go deep

TSonn wrote:Just heard Zimmer's explanation of the final play. Told Teddy he can't complete the ball in bounds - gotta hit a sideline throw. That's pretty tough for a 23 year old. I'm guessing Teddy clutched it because he thought, if the pass was completed, we would have been tackled in bounds since we were blanketed. Zimmer didn't mention anything about Teddy needing to throw the ball away in the clip I heard.

Thats what i was wondering and it was a TERRIBLE call. Zimmer isnt god after all.

me4get wrote:TB 25/36 330 1TD 0 INT 1 fumble.
Palmer 25/35 310 2TD 0 INT.

2 other Vikings fumbles in field goal range.

TB decent game.

TB played a very good game. Too bad the haters can't give him one ounce of credit Those two costly fumbles and the interception called back by an off sides call were devastating.
Many Kudos to the coach and the effort put forth in this game. This team did little to resemble the team that got crushed the week before. I hated the loss but loved the effort

TSonn wrote:Just heard Zimmer's explanation of the final play. Told Teddy he can't complete the ball in bounds - gotta hit a sideline throw. That's pretty tough for a 23 year old. I'm guessing Teddy clutched it because he thought, if the pass was completed, we would have been tackled in bounds since we were blanketed. Zimmer didn't mention anything about Teddy needing to throw the ball away in the clip I heard.

Tough to throw a sideline route for a 23 year old? Dan Marino was 23 years old when he threw for 20 touchdowns and only 6 interceptions in 1983. Wow, the Vikings played good, but quit making excuses for Teddy.

PurpleKoolaid wrote: Thats what i was wondering and it was a TERRIBLE call. Zimmer isnt god after all.

Yeah, Teddy just said he was waiting for the WRs to get across the hashmark so they wouldn't be tackled in bounds. Also said he was trying to throw it away when he got hit since the WRs were gonna be open in time. That screams terrible play call to me, but I do like Teddy so I might be biased.

Football38 wrote: Tough to throw a sideline route for a 23 year old? Dan Marino was 23 years old when he threw for 20 touchdowns and only 6 interceptions in 1983. Wow, the Vikings played good, but quit making excuses for Teddy.

No, tough to have that timing in his head to know when to give up on what his coach told him to do. Teddy's not going to be Dan Marino - got it. Not making excuses - it is exactly what happened.

PurpleKoolaid wrote: Thats what i was wondering and it was a TERRIBLE call. Zimmer isnt god after all.

Zimmer didn't specifically say Teddy was supposed to throw the ball away, but he did say he couldn't take a sack so that implies that he should throw it away if the receivers were covered.

720pete wrote:

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ok??? We outplayed them minus the turnovers obviously. We don't have those turnovers we win this game by a solid amount. That is my point. The fumbles were all on good drives.

Bottom line is, we are a young team that just isnt all the way there yet. We have already made an improvement from last season. 95% of you guys were predicting us to lose easily. We were depleted and we fought until the end.

I am never happy with a loss but I am happy with what we showed tonight being down so many key players. NOBODY, maybe outside of me lol, was predicting this outcome.

We have a long weeks rest and hopefully can get the big boys back in action to win the upcoming games