OK, call me crazy but...

So we're off to a scary start...

I still think we can make the playoffs. It is just TOO early to play god. Look around the league, who do you pick to win the divisions? Buffalo over New England? (Just 3 weeks ago you'd pick NE) STILL think the EAGLES are the team to beat in the NFC East at 1-2? Every other team is 2-1. AFC West is any one's guess. NORRIS DIVISION- Sure the PACKERS look strong and should "prolly" maintain their edge and win 10, 11, 12 games but will they? I don't know.

Remember 1987?  We started out with the same record, strike season. "Backed into the playoffs" losing our last game.  Made the wild card. Then beat down the 13-2 Niners and 12-3 Saints.  And let's not forget when the PACK won the division BUT we beat them in the NFC Wildcard game. (Exactly like they did to the BEARS last year and the RAYS will do when/if they play the Yankees)

I certainly didn't think we'd start 0-3. What do records really mean? I was mad and embarrassed last week, and now I'm sitting here hearing the stupid national media jock Oakland, Buffalo and saying that my Vikes are in the Andrew Luck Sweepstakes. SMH. None of these people know anything about the future and apparently people have short memories. Certain teams make a few plays and all of a sudden they're "for real" and teams stacked with talent having some problems are written off for the season, it's all real lazy journalism.

You know what's an interesting barometer which I prefer to stupid "power rankings" ? The "odds" to win it all. Sure I think point spreads can be shady and manipulative but these show a little more common sense. Right now the top 6 teams favored to win it all (as of this week) are New England and the Packers THEN... wait, the LIONS?! The Lion's are three and 0 and beat 2 winless teams plus the BUCs yet they're 3 times more likely to win the super bowl then the amazing undefeated BILLS? The next few teams are Saints, Steelers, Ravens and Jets. I guess the BILLs are less likely due to the AFC having more good teams but still it's straight CRAZY to think the LIONS will win the super bowl I guess they assume the PACK and LIONS will eliminate the other come playoff time. Head Scratcher. Otherwise they all make sense. The VIKES are 100-1 for the record. That makes them about the 7th to 10th least likely team to win, which is more realistic then the media who thinks they "suck."

I think there will be a lot of 8-8 teams, 9-7 teams and whomever can just make it into the playoffs has a shot. We shall see. I think Detroit being improved this year will work in our favor. I bet all the teams in our division split 1-1 with each other Call me crazy.

But man McNabb better make some damn plays. After I got over my rage and disappointment following the last VIKES game and listened to the news conferences I relaxed a little bit, these guys don't remind me of the losers who played along Moss and Culpepper before Moss got shipped off. They were just spoiled athletes. I think our whole team are VIKINGS except maybe McNabb, he hasn't won me over yet. FAVRE won me over in the San Fran game obviously... We need a damn win. Losing to the winless CHIEFS will be the nail in the coffin. And you know they're all saying the same thing, and are at home. It is not gonna be easy no matter how sucko they look on paper.

I still think we finish at least 8-8. What do you guys think? New poll up to the right...

Hey coach, read your own damn shirt!

PLAY 60!
(not 30)

I am ashamed and pissed off actually

I didn't panic, I didn't get negative. I kept it positive all week. It's like I said earlier when you have a loved one with an addiction or a using problem and one day they steal some of your $ or get arrested. You know you shouldn't take it personally, that you've done your best, but GDI it still feels bad. I'm real let down right now. IDK if I believe in these guys anymore I feel bad for AP and KLUWE. All they had to do was win. I wouldn't have cared how.

Fuck. Quit Smoking Crack and stealing my joy you Vikings!!!

Hey Media Troll, don't eat me, there's an even bigger blown half time lead coming right behind me!

Wow.
Wtf?
SMH
FML

I was so sure at half we were gonna win this game. I was so pleased we scored to close out that half, that McNabb connected with Shanks, that we had a 20 point lead... I even went on record ( the post below) and declared victory. OOOOPs!

I've read all the tweets, listened to the post game on the fan, watched the pressers on Vikings.com and all I can say is...

THEY WERE RIGHT AND I WAS WRONG. Megatron was unstoppable. Stafford did light us up. McNabb IS washed up...

But here's what I am thinking, it's not "US" blowing leads, the opposing team is just TAKING TOO LONG to score against us. They all need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask why they didnt all beat us by 30! Think about it, if they all just played shotgun all the time and threw every down they'd have had TDs right away. Instead the LIONS wasted half their plays on runs in the first half and got like 14 yards!

We simply do not have a good ball hawking turnover causing defense, our LBs are avg and below avg at coverage, our safeties are scarecrows that sit in zones, and our DBs can't consistently cover one on one. THIRD and 14? No problem, just throw a slant. Move the chains!

I will stand by what I said as far as this being a huge character game and clearly the VIKES don't have any. Quote of the day? My boy at DailyNorseman.com "Like the rest of us, Percy HARVIN spent most of the 2nd half throwing up" Meanwhile coach and everyone else aside from Jared Allen looked confused and constipated. Game Ball goes to Jared Allen and the bartender at The Bullfrog who gave me two drink tickets.

Coach-

Leslie Frasier's press conference was awful, like seeing Mr Cleaver explain to The Beeve that even though he lost the soap box derby, he was proud of him. He literally said he was proud of how the players fought. He repeatedly said "we didnt make plays" and never got specific. It's such a cop out to me. I know I am mad but there seems to be lots of little errors but no accountability. Blah. "There's always next year" but hopefully not for Frasier or McNabb. It's just not fair to be 3 games back of two teams in week 3! I expected McNabb to not turn the ball over, and for Frasier to be a cool hand, but I didn't expect McNabb to be so erratic in his accuracy and not make ANY big plays or for Fraiser to be incapable of leading. It's too bad we never see him behind the scenes because he sure comes off as Naive and in over his head and incapable of leading or winning. 3 and 8 he is?


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CROMs calling it

They are who CROM thought they were. "total team victory total team win"

Don't panic when we punt in the 3rd quarter

Great Victory

Quick take on point spreads and "experts"

Well as most of you know, the LIONS are favored to win Sunday AT the Metrodome. The line is Lions -3.5 pts.
According to online sources 85% of the money in Vegas is being put on the LIONS. I find it amazing how much hype, both positive and negative, can affect the public and by default, expert opinions. According to the jist of opinions I've Been reading from non Minnesota based sources, McNabb is "terrible" Detroit will smother us, Matthew Stafford and Megatron will be hard to stop yada yada. NO ONE has picked the vikes to even beat the spread. It seems like no one has any common sense.

First of all we're talking about TWO games thus far more or less, cause clearly no one is looking at the LIONS horrid 14 game losing streak at the dome, the LIONS awful road record, the return of K WILL, Our RB named AP "...who has gained 814 yards in eight career games against the Lions... and he has done most of the damage at the Metrodome, where the teams play Sunday. In four games there, he has gained 520 yards (294 in Detroit) and scored six of his seven touchdowns against the Lions:" etc etc

AHEM.

Mighty Matthew Stafford has faced us twice, lost both games and had a total of 2 TDs 2 INTs and less the 400 yards total. I'm real scared.

Last time LIONS started out 3-0? 1980. This team isn't even as good as the Herman Moore Barry sanders ones. Chill out with the hype please! They're over valued and the Vikes are undervalued.

If I went to the game I'd hold a sign up the first time he's sacked
YOU'RE NOT PLAYING KANSAS ANYMORE

MY money is on the Vikes. No spread.

Should be a fun game...

SKOL!

7 out of 8 stats are useless and arbitrary (Same chance the Vikes make the playoffs)

I get annoyed with the way certain journalists spin sports, especially with Stats. We're fed useless stats in articles and during games so often that we've lost the ability to decipher meaningful ones from stupid ones. Here are two of my favorites that we've all seen a million times. One are those guys in basketball broadcasts who say something like "The Rockets are on a 24-16 scoring streak halfway through the first quarter."

The other is in baseball when they pull up a hitting percentage during an at bat "Crom bats .317 vs Lefties, with runners on the corners, 2 outs, as a pinch hitter, on the road, when trailing, in game one of a double header, against the Yankees, on labor day... Whereas his career average is .324" SO INSIGHTFUL!

Which leads to my beloved Vikings. The big stat being hammered into our domes this week was "Only 12% of the teams that start out 0-2 make the playoffs" HUH? What's the point of this stat? How about teams that start 2-2? Or finish 8-8? 10-6? ( I could not find where they got this stat) Obviously starting out 0-3 would suck balls, but why the negativity? We lost to playoff team on the road and a 10-6 TB team. Sure the fashion of those losses was upsetting but the fact remains, we have an extremely compeitive football team! Our 0-2 isn't the same as the Chiefs for example! You know statistically they have the same chance we do to make the playoffs. You know what percentage of people picked the wildcard steelers, giants or pack to win the superbowl the last times they did? (I assume only their fans haha)

Here's something interesting I found.

"There’s plenty of football still left to be played, so don’t count anyone out. Since 2000, 27 teams have reached the halfway point of the season with a .500 or below winning percentage and proceeded to the playoffs, including at least one in each season. In 2009, three teams – Baltimore (4-4), Green Bay (4-4) and the New York Jets (4-4) – accomplished the feat..."

SIDE NOTE
I received an interesting stat from a lovely high spirited late night TWEET from super fan and director SPIKE LEE, defending his evil YANKEES-

"Do you know Boston has #2 Payroll in MLB? Don't front like Red Sox have a Pittsburgh Pirates PAYROLL. C'mon SON. WAKE UP!"

Great Stat Spike! However A. It's incorrect, the BOSOX have the 3rd highest payroll and B. The Yankees payroll is over 40 million $'s higher the BOSOX, it's 202 million $, JUST 4 million less then the BOSOX and PIRATES pay roll combined! "That's the triplle troof, Ruth!"

THIS BLOG WAS POSTED FROM MY PHONE I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY ERRORS AND THE LACK OF LINKS AND PICS.

SKOL!

VIKINGS VS DETROIT

Haha! Never gets old

WELL.... Before I get into this weekend's game, I'd like to say I am feeling better about our Loss(es) the first two weeks. After looking at all the news conferences and player interviews and reading the blogs I feel like the Viking players themselves are gonna be more focused and turn in complete games moving forward. It's like when someone apologizes to you, either you believe it or you don't, it's sincere or it isn't, and these players and coaches all seem sincerely pissed off about everything. We'll see soon enough! Hopefully we will be able to have fewer penalties, stay aggressive into the 3rd and 4th quarters on Offense and Defense as well as reduce mental errors like lining up on the wrong formations etc. UGH!

Kinda silly to analyze stats this early in the season... On paper DET has a high scoring offense, lotsa passing yards and a solid defense... On paper. But they've played the un-impressive BUCs defense on the road, and got the lowly Chiefs at home. I assume our pass rush will be the best they've faced "all year" haha.

Stats below for you. I think we have a great defensive game and 4 quarters of annoying ball control efficiency with a few explosive plays mixed in. They'll get 17 points or so and we'll get over 30! I could be wrong but that's what we need... We shall see. People are asking if the roar ha been restored etc if the lions are for real I think they've improved but they're not an elite, consistent team yet. They're definitely beatable and I feel sorry for the team facing us this week. Unless someone gets hurt AP, McNabb and Harvin are gonna be beasting it!

Aaaaarggggh!!! ( Conan for "is the skull half full or half empty?")

Well?

Seriously- I'm so mind fucked right now. Clearly the over all negative out weighs the positives, what with a Stale Donut in the W column and a 2 in the L column but... This squad is like that hot girl you almost kinda went home with, who's maybe teasing you, or is she playing hard to get, oh idk I'll give her a third date! If she doesn't put out or at least me feel like a Winner- then Ima hate myself. This bi-polar play of my purple players is giving me blue balls! But APs runs, Harvins kick return and the D forcing 3 and outs is giving me couch boners.
So I ask all of you! Wtf?!

Is the glass half full or empty? Who's serving the drinks? Do the players need to drink more of Frazier's Kool aid? Or less?

Time to point fingers or hold hands?

I heard a lot of frustrated voices in the post game but my gut is that this year is gonna have a lot of growing pains.. We've done things you just can't do but then again... So have the packers... It's all so inconsistent. I'll have more to say mañana when my balls don't ache.

Hopefully to make room for K WILL, we will cut Berrian per my boys at the Daily Norseman tonight.

Please vote on my new poll--->^ Half full, half empty ??