Vikings Dispatch Seahawks 20-7

with most of his offense weapons in minis okung and obamanu facing his former team for a full half. wow was expecting more. I’m not buying the pre season excuse here. facing your former team at c-link big disappointment. what was are line doing? was i the only one who saw gallery lost a several plays?

not Malcolm Smith

I still do not like Charlie’s looping delivery. When the pockets get tighter if/when he faces 1st team D’s I can see fumbles being caused by this. On the bright side his progression reads have come along way from the giants and ram games. TJ beware the clipboards coming for you.

to end Charlie’s night. Pat Williams dropped an easy one on 2nd then Durham dropped a tough one on 4th. And yes, it was definitely Johnson with the FF.

many of the plays they ran with him were short throws with some easy reads. If I remember correctly they ran 3 straight play action roll outs with a dump-off in the flats to Dorson Boyce. Whitehurst did make one great throw that impressed me, which was the pass along the sidelines to Durham. Besides that I felt like he had open receivers short and was able to quickly get the ball in their hands with little to no trouble. Can’t fault him for it, he was working with what he had and in my opinion he had considerably more open receivers and time to work with than Jackson had (I was at the game so I had a good view of the receivers downfield). I’m not trying to say one is better for the team than the other, because that is hard to tell right now and I’m certainly not a professional scout. Just suggesting we do what is most difficult for us as fans to do…avoid overreacting to some things we see and making quick judgments. Cheers everyone.

and leave the deer-in-headlights impression on the sideline. I get the sense he’s not having a ton of trouble with the new offense, albeit in slow motion against the 2nd/3rd string. Hill looked sharp and Kam is still looking pretty good. Saw a couple nice lanes open up on the right for the oline but they weren’t amazing in pass pro, and man did Polumbus get worked. I’m sending Okung’s ankle a get well soon card.

Wasn’t too impressed with Michael Robinsion. Ditto to the usual headaches, Jennings and Curry, and Tate. At this point I’d be happy to see Browner (or hopefully WT3), Wright and Baldwin run with the 1’s and forget those three ever existed.

Curry’s awareness is seriously lacking, both in coverage and when trying to remember whether or not it’s a good thing to tear another player’s helmet off and throw it away. That was pathetic.
Once again, Jenning’s had some serious mistakes that we can confirm were his fault. “Sticking like glue” and whatever positive points you might have to say for him are negated by the fact that he doesn’t know where the ball is when it’s thrown.
I’m not sure why people are confused that our OLine is sieve-like considering we have 2.5 rookies (Unger counts as the half) starting. The 9ers did this last year and we (or at least I) laughed at how poorly they played together for the first part of the season. We are doing it with lesser talent.
Poor tackling is an issue…again. On the 35 yard TD run, I’m not sure if you all noticed but one of our players flung himself in front of the guy right when he made the cut back to the right side. This says that he was expecting the guy to run straight into him. He should have trucked the ball carrier.
Hawthorne and Hill seem solid together. They appear to have a good rapport.
I’m liking our Safety positions and the talent we have there, but, like last week it seemed as if there was a time or two when someone should have had coverage over the top when there wasn’t. No specific examples come to mind, but if I go back I can try to find the examples. Also, I’m a fan of J. Johnson. I hope he sticks.

All the available evidence says that the ceiling for both TJax and Clipboard Jesus (Carlson, btw, is white Jesus) is league average starter, and that’s being gracious. Both these guys are placeholders on short-term deals, and both will see “meaningful” snaps in all likelihood.

The decision to declare TJax the starter makes perfect sense in a vacuum, and the decision-making context this off-season is as close to a vacuum as you’ll ever see. Theoretically, starting TJax means that the entire playbook is open from day 1. And since the backup QB sees so few reps during a normal season, much less a season where almost the entire o-line is new, most any coach would go with the QB who has experience in the offense. The talent/potential gap would have to be enormous to consider the other guy.

That’s not the same as a get out of jail free card for TJax. But right now, the o-line play is so terrible it’s difficult to evaluate him fairly. What he theoretically brings to the table is a pretty good arm and some improv playmaking ability. We haven’t had a chance to see that really because we can’t even run basic stuff yet. On the downside we know his reputation for not reading the field well, and we have seen that.

TJax’s a bit like having an all-bat, no glove right fielder. It only takes one inning in the field to see that his glove is gonna hurt you. But you need a much bigger sample of at-bats in game conditions to know whether he can hit his way past his defensive shortcomings.

For the record, I’m hyped that Charlie is playing well. As I said, both guys are gonna play.

At the game, me and those around me were perplexed why we ran the Forsett goal line plays the way we did. Clearly not the player of choice for that play, and unlikely you run that play repeatedly. So what were they doing?

It was a deliberate test is all we could think. Then we saw the play of the other RB’s they recent;y brought in. Is there more to this than meets the eye? I suspect we will see some change in the RB position. I don’t think the coaches are happy w/ their short yardage options yet – despite oline play.

apologies.

is that you will see him throw the first 3 throws pretty high, as he did in this game. I distinctly remember his first two completions being close to not caught because he put so much zip on a ball that was placed too high. Past that though, he really did look quite solid. It seemed like the rest of his throws were pretty on point. Just worried that he might be prone to throwing picks at the beginning of games.

Is it Wednesday ? As in turnover Wednesday. Seems to be working.