All Things 2025 Minnesota Vikings In-Season Thread

Donate To GopherHole
golf said:
Brosmer locks up the 4th place schedule for us against the Lions. Then get JJ back to further his growth the next Sunday. Very good.
Click to expand...
Only way to improve your correct post here is to say that McCarthy comes back for the Packers game and we beat them to keep them out of the playoffs*.

* believe that requires Packers to lose to Ravens and Detroit to beat the Bears the last week (but the Bears might be laying down that last week?)
 


Spaulding!No! said:
With the way the season played out, it feels like a Darnold led Vikings team could have won it all. Jus typin.
Click to expand...
This team always needed a vertern QB. I was always correct on this.

Just a colossal blunder to think that McCarthy was ready. Even worse to build the team up for a SB around him, forcing expectations that much unreasonably higher for a defacto rookie QB.
 

GopherGrit said:
This team always needed a vertern QB. I was always correct on this.

Just a colossal blunder to think that McCarthy was ready. Even worse to build the team up for a SB around him, forcing expectations that much unreasonably higher for a defacto rookie QB.
Click to expand...
He wasn't ready? That's crazy for only needing one series in the entire preseason (tounge in cheek)
 




Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
This dude is such a tool. Always has been.

Click to expand...
dude is polarizing, i'll give you that. that said, he does have a point after the "tell-all" bullshit saying he couldn't read, that he couldn't watch film, etc., that got published anonymously right before the season dropped. I think he's arrogant (tbh they all are, but it's i think part of what it takes to play the position. Some are just outwardly moreso) , but I do think he's fun to watch.

and tbh, any guy who makes the nfl has beaten the odds and busted their ass to get here. same as people saying Mccarthy was just a golden boy who got handed everything (which is a crazy take). People love to hate on people. Part of the passion of sports.
 

GopherGrit said:
One has started 75 regular season games and 7 playoff games including a SB over six seasons.

The other has started 9 regular season games over two seasons.

Good take :sneaky:
Click to expand...
For this season, the 9 games JJM has already started will be more than the maximum of 8 for Burrow.

This will be the 3rd season (out of 6) in which Burrow is going to play 10 or fewer games.

They both get injured. Lots.
 

upnorthkid said:
dude is polarizing, i'll give you that. that said, he does have a point after the "tell-all" bullshit saying he couldn't read, that he couldn't watch film, etc., that got published anonymously right before the season dropped. I think he's arrogant (tbh they all are, but it's i think part of what it takes to play the position. Some are just outwardly moreso) , but I do think he's fun to watch.

and tbh, any guy who makes the nfl has beaten the odds and busted their ass to get here. same as people saying Mccarthy was just a golden boy who got handed everything (which is a crazy take). People love to hate on people. Part of the passion of sports.
Click to expand...

He's riding an elite play-caller who is taking the ball out of his hands and pounding the rock on the ground, and a defense that isn't elite, but is leading the lead in taking the ball away, while completing around 57% of his passes.

Williams' greatest strength so far in the NFL is that he's hard to tackle in the backfield. Ben Johnson's playcalling tells you all you need to know about how much he trusts Williams. So far, when you're leading the lead in TO Differential by a big margin, it's a recipe for success. Barring a matchup with the NFC South division winner, I'll bet the farm that they aren't winning a playoff game.
 



Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
He's riding an elite play-caller who is taking the ball out of his hands and pounding the rock on the ground, and a defense that isn't elite, but is leading the lead in taking the ball away, while completing around 57% of his passes.

Williams' greatest strength so far in the NFL is that he's hard to tackle in the backfield. Ben Johnson's playcalling tells you all you need to know about how much he trusts Williams. So far, when you're leading the lead in TO Differential by a big margin, it's a recipe for success. Barring a matchup with the NFC South division winner, I'll bet the farm that they aren't winning a playoff game.
Click to expand...

You would really bet the farm if the Bears host the Packers in a rubber match?

What if they host either a West Coast Rams, 49ers, or Seahawks on a nasty sub-freezing blustery day by Lake Michigan?
 


Ope3 said:
Please direct me to the All Things 2025 Jacksonville Jaguas In-Season Thread so I can post that information.
Click to expand...
In other words, it seems you are agreeing that having no Pro Bowlers is completely irrelevant.

No one thinks JJ (the real one, Justin Jefferson) isn't a Pro Bowler. Gink, Greenard, and Darrisaw are as well if they get a whole season injury free.
 

Ope3 said:
For this season, the 9 games JJM has already started will be more than the maximum of 8 for Burrow.

This will be the 3rd season (out of 6) in which Burrow is going to play 10 or fewer games.

They both get injured. Lots.
Click to expand...
That's like saying a Monster Truck and a Ford Ranger are both trucks.

Burrow doesn't get hurt anywhere near as often, has already had a career that McCarthy can probably only dream of, and is an MVP level player.

Terrible take that isn't worth discussing further as he isn't going anywhere, Cincy won't trade him.
 




In addition to McCarthy, we have Hockenson, Kelly, and Mason listed out. ONeill and Bartholomew (TE) are questionable. Jones, Hargrave, Eric Wilson, and Ty Chandler have no status.

I believe ONeill was also questionable last week, but obviously still played.


That page is not showing Wed status from Lions yet, but looks like Avonte Maddox and David Montgomery could be out based on DNP for Mon and Tues.
 


GopherGrit said:
That's like saying a Monster Truck and a Ford Ranger are both trucks.

Burrow doesn't get hurt anywhere near as often, has already had a career that McCarthy can probably only dream of, and is an MVP level player.

Terrible take that isn't worth discussing further as he isn't going anywhere, Cincy won't trade him.
Click to expand...

Your analogies leave something to be desired.
 

GopherGrit said:
In other words, it seems you are agreeing that having no Pro Bowlers is completely irrelevant.
Click to expand...
In other words the Jacksonville Jaguars Coaching Staff is doing a much better job of getting 11 wins out of their 100% non-Pro Bowl Roster than the 7 Win Vikings Coaching Staff.

I didn't post anything prior about Jacksonville because I don't give a bleep about them. I suspect very few on this forum do either.

Reading anything more than that is misguided.
 
Last edited:

GopherGrit said:
Yep, a future hall of famer WR (Justin Jefferson), just suddenly, from nothing, starts dropping the ball.


Don't be a dolt. It's the QB's fault, has been all season.
Click to expand...
Merry Christmas to you too.

The dropped TD and dropped pass that resulted in an INT Sunday were the fault of the WRs, not JJM.
 

GopherGrit said:
No one thinks JJ (the real one, Justin Jefferson) isn't a Pro Bowler. Gink, Greenard, and Darrisaw are as well if they get a whole season injury free.
Click to expand...

Being a Pro Bowl caliber talent and performing as one in terms of production to actually warrant the actual honor are completely different things.

That should be obvious. The designations aren't based on potential or previous season output.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.



Top Bottom