ViKINGS - jAGUARS (WEEK 12)

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Big Picture

Good win, on the road, everyone contributed,(kinda) no major gaffs on defense or special teams... good stuff. I wonder how many JAGS fan are mad at Del Rio... or want Tice to take over haha. Good Riddance! Stats that stick out...

• Ryan Longwell made a 54 yarder and was 3 for 3
  
• Antoine Winfield had 372 tackles
• We were plus 4 on turnovers
• Frerotte rushed for a career high 3 yards on 5 carries! (i consider that 5 sacks btw)
• We outscored them 13 to 2 in the second half (we gave them the safety)
  

Little Picture

Here are a few positives and negatives. Then at the bottom, a philosophical question! or two!

Positives.

• Frerotte- He took his lumps, almost had a 3 knockdown TKO but when it counted, in the fourth, he did his job and got the Vikes 10 points to "finish the game" ( I say this knowing he had a bad INT and real poor decision to take that sack on the first and goal)
• Rushing Defense - Held Taylor, Gerrard AND Jones-Drew to 35 yards on 14 carries. ( I know they were pass happy but still)
• Passing Defense did well.. withstanding 45 passing plays and forcing 18 incompletions and 2 pics. Sure they got 300 yards but a lot of that was Jones-Drew's shifty ass. a lot of RAC.. "bend but don't break"
• Overall Defense forced 2 ints, 3 fumbles and had four sacks that led to viking points.
• Winfield - MVP, say no more. had 317 tackles (ok, he had 11.5) and forced that fumble
• Ryan Cook- We only heard his name called once, and that was to inform us he got replaced =p
• Reverses to berrian - good way to get him the ball since the other team isn't allowed to cover him before we snap it (since he cant get open after the snap)
• Taylor played great. He gets my game ball

NEGATIVES

• Clearly our receivers have a hard time beating man to man coverages. This is the third week in a row when they got silent, leading to many hurries, knock downs and coverage sacks. Forcing lame "dump offs" to the FB. (lame!)
• Pass Rush - though we got 4 sacks "officially" we didn't have enough pressure. It seems that are 4 down lineman are just clunky. very talented but we dont have any speed on the edges and no one that can "track down" an even remotely mobile quarter back. Just like Garcia last week, Gerrard was able to buy a LOT of time with his feet. At least we didn't have any late hits this week... if we didn't get the lead cushion we had, they would have ran more, play acted more, and made our line look even more one dimensional
• Inconsistency from Frerotte is nerve racking.. Wade had his customary drop... Sharper was quiet again.

Despite his great swim move, ALLEN couldn't catch up to the elusive tackling sled

QUESTIONS FOR VIKING FANS!
(I think #1's a no brainer)

1. On a first and goal from the 2, we ran a play action roll out - option. It was defended great, both receivers were covered and Frerotte had no running angle.. he held the ball trying to make a play and got sacked for a loss of 8. Was this a BAD PLAY CALL by Chilly or a DUMB DECISION by Frerotte??
2. What's your guess as to why AP was out the first two series?

My answer to 2 is either discipline for something yet un-benounced to us, being late to team bus, over sleeping etc or maybe because he had a bad cold.