All Things 2022 Minnesota Vikings In-Season Thread

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JimmyJamesMD said:
Many of you are treating round 1 like a bowl game. "I'm glad we got the 3 seed so we can play the giants." WTF?

You want as many home games as possible because the point is to get to the Super bowl, not win a game in the wild card round.

You think Purdy is going to play as good at US Bank against a fired up crowd as he would in Santa Clara? No way.
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This team isn't winning the Super Bowl. And they probably aren't winning the divisional round regardless of who/where they play. Losing in the first round makes the "they were frauds!" narrative stick. Winning at least one game makes it a successful season IMO. Then fire Donatell, cut several of the old, aging, expensive players and fix the defense.
 

JimmyJamesMD said:
The 49ers will kill the packers
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I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I do think the "Packers are back!" narrative is overstated. The great winning streak has been over the Bears, Rams, a Dolphins team in full collapse mode and yesterday's debacle.
 










kg21 said:
I think the Lions will give the Packers everything they want.
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Vikings were terrible and shot themselves in foot. Packers havent impressed yet and lions are going to give them a good game. You can just never underestimate the ability of the lions to F up
 


howeda7 said:
This team isn't winning the Super Bowl. And they probably aren't winning the divisional round regardless of who/where they play. Losing in the first round makes the "they were frauds!" narrative stick. Winning at least one game makes it a successful season IMO. Then fire Donatell, cut several of the old, aging, expensive players and fix the defense.
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We'll find a way to beat Green Bay at home.

We'll lose out in SF.


But I think folks like Barreiro who hand-waive "oh Green Bay will get killed out in San Fran" like he said today, are full of BS. Hopefully, we'll see.
 




kg21 said:
I think the Lions will give the Packers everything they want.
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You want them to.

Will be an interesting test. If the Packers do like they did against us this coming weekend, then they'll beat SF in the first round. Bank it
 

PhiloVance said:
Did he want the Viking job but the feeling wasn't mutual?
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I think he came here expecting to be offered the job on a platter, maybe even begging on their knees.

When they "only" interviewed him like a serious candidate, but among the rest of the serious candidates, he was like "oh ..... hmmm well maybe I'll just crawl back to Michigan".
 

Gophers_4life said:
You want them to.

Will be an interesting test. If the Packers do like they did against us this coming weekend, then they'll beat SF in the first round. Bank it
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Well ya, if the packers get a defensive td, a kickoff td, 4 turnovers, see the niners miss two field goals and see two starting o-lineman go down right away.........I would love the packers chances against the niners.

I highly doubt that, though.

Detroit/Green Bay has been flexed to the Sunday Night game by the way.
 

Gophers_4life said:
We'll find a way to beat Green Bay at home.

We'll lose out in SF.


But I think folks like Barreiro who hand-waive "oh Green Bay will get killed out in San Fran" like he said today, are full of BS. Hopefully, we'll see.
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There is now basically no chance we will play GB. The only way would be in the NFC Championship game. In that case, bring it on.
 

PhiloVance said:
Did he want the Viking job but the feeling wasn't mutual?
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It sounds like he wanted it and Kwesi wanted him but got over-ruled by the rest of the "committee". Hard to argue with the results. I think he'd have had similar results this year, but O'Connell is a better long-term fit. Harbaugh will last 3-4 years wherever he goes and then burn-out and/or retire.
 

Gophers_4life said:
I think he came here expecting to be offered the job on a platter, maybe even begging on their knees.

When they "only" interviewed him like a serious candidate, but among the rest of the serious candidates, he was like "oh ..... hmmm well maybe I'll just crawl back to Michigan".
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To be fair, you don't bring in someone like Jim Harbaugh unless it's basically a done deal before he arrives. I don't think his expectation that the in-person interview was a formality was out of line.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Yikes.

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This is why I’ve never been a fan of the 3-4. I suppose it makes a difference on your personnel. If Khalil Mack or Von Miller is out there I feel a bit better, but still not ideal. Hunter is a prototypical 4-3 DE. Square peg, round hole. If the 3-4 stays, Hunter shouldn’t be back.
 

forever a gopher said:
This is why I’ve never been a fan of the 3-4. I suppose it makes a difference on your personnel. If Khalil Mack or Von Miller is out there I feel a bit better, but still not ideal. Hunter is a prototypical 4-3 DE. Square peg, round hole. If the 3-4 stays, Hunter shouldn’t be back.
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It makes little sense with our personnel.
 

This is ridiculous. Isn’t it the point to avoid these situations?

 

howeda7 said:
To be fair, you don't bring in someone like Jim Harbaugh unless it's basically a done deal before he arrives. I don't think his expectation that the in-person interview was a formality was out of line.
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Bolded: why? No one had to blow up that he was coming here. He and his agent probably did that themselves.

Would guess the Vikings tried to make it clear from the git-go that it was not a done deal.
 

howeda7 said:
There is now basically no chance we will play GB. The only way would be in the NFC Championship game. In that case, bring it on.
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How do you figure this?

I see it as:
- Vikings #3 beat Giants #6
- Packers #7 beat SF #2
- Dallas #5 beats Brady #4

So second round is #1 Philly vs #5 Dallas and #3 Vikings vs #7 Packers. Where did I go wrong?
 

Gophers_4life said:
How do you figure this?

I see it as:
- Vikings #3 beat Giants #6
- Packers #7 beat SF #2
- Dallas #5 beats Brady #4

So second round is #1 Philly vs #5 Dallas and #3 Vikings vs #7 Packers. Where did I go wrong?
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Philly plays the lowest remaining seed. If Green Bay wins, they play Philly.
 

Gophers_4life said:
Bolded: why? No one had to blow up that he was coming here. He and his agent probably did that themselves.

Would guess the Vikings tried to make it clear from the git-go that it was not a done deal.
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Because he already had a job, and a college job at that. It's a huge risk to the recruiting class etc. if you openly interview for another job. And he's a proven NFL coach. He wouldn't have interviewed in person if he was "just another candidate."
 


howeda7 said:
Because he already had a job, and a college job at that. It's a huge risk to the recruiting class etc. if you openly interview for another job. And he's a proven NFL coach. He wouldn't have interviewed in person if he was "just another candidate."
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It's still his fault. As I said, no one had to know that he came here to interview.

I say the Vikings made it clear, and he ignored them. That was on him, all the way. If he wanted a sure thing, then don't accept the invite.
 


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