Week 12 Vikes - Cubs (Inter-league play)

ROUTE

You all saw it.

The bears are who we thought they were.

And we gave them three right hooks

Week 11 Seahawk Stompdown

Whoa. Four rushing yards? That's crazy. Our rushing defense should climb a few nothces this week! We didn't even really score in the first quarter.... so it's not like they were down 21 right away. Hats off to the defense. Favre was insanely good as usual... I hope he can just keep it going!

People might glance at APs stats and think we had an "ok" rushing day, and that he was held to a low avg. per carry. (3.8 yards) But in reality, he and Chester combined for 35 carries for 155 yards, and that includes many 4th quarter time running "give up" plays.

We had ourselves a good old fashioned blow out and it was nice to see T Jack get some reps. He started out rusty but then got it together. I'd like to see us use him more on third and 4, 3rd and 6 in some kind of single back spread offense or wild cat. Similar to how Philly uses VICK. I think you can't go wrong getting everyone involved and he has those good legs to run with. At least near the goal line it would be nice though I know we are doing very well in the red zone and Favre is awesome at those quick 3 step drop plays.

Where were the sacks? We had two, not so hot considering how many passing plays they had. I am glad we didn't have any turnovers... we played a solid game in that regard. I'd be quite scared of us if I looked at film, it's not like Seattle was leaving us wide open, they were in on every play very quickly and often had "good coverages"

Here are my snaps for the game

week ten

Good, solid win. No complaints. Props to RICE for having a career day. I wish he had separation speed but, again, I am not complaining. It's just that you often see some receiver make a big play and get tackled on the 3 yard line... then you can't get it into the end zone.

I am playing catch up on my blog again... it's hard enough to find anything interesting about a Lion's game. It's worse then watching bye week =D

Here are a couple snaps from the game.

Shotgun, pre snap

.4 seconds later. Story of Stafford's Day!

Coaches best friend, the red flag

Rice, doing "on demand" push ups after he dropped a pass in the fourth quarter!

What's worse then bye week??

Playing the Lions!

"I'm not too impressed" <--- LINK

Mid season here is where we stand, though I didn't foresee our defense being so average overall, I didn't anticipate being so high in scoring either.

Defensive Ranking Mid-Season

Offensive Ranking Mid-Season

Hopefully we can make adjustments and become more of a disruptive team that can "finish them" and step on their throats.

And now back to the lions...

Let's hope we have a fruitful, smooth, injury free game and that our back-ups get some time.

Let's hope we beat them soundly by the end of the third quarter. (And don't let them closer)

I don't think it will be like the last few games we played against them because they still have a rookie at Qb, they can't blitz us like they did last year, nor put 9 men in the box for AP. Well, they can but Favre will abuse them.

This year week 2 they tried to fight and were up 10 to 7 at half. But we scored 20 unanswered points in the 2nd half and won. I recall Greenway had a couple picks and Favre was still playing with 17 plays and didn't know his receivers well yet. All of us were still unsure of our new look Vikings. (And then we had the San Fran Favre Magic TD... then we beat the Pack and we were rollin!)

This time it should be different. Now that we've gelled I anticipate us airing it out against them if they stop our run, which they could try to scheme. They have a good defensive line still.