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Team: Minnesota Vikings Record through 8 games: 5-2 Offensive grade: D Defensive grade: A Special Teams grade: B- Coaching grade: B Overall grade: All things considered,  A Most outstanding/surprising players(3): Jeff Locke has been outstanding at pinning teams within their own 10 on punts. Andrew Sendejo was much maligned after signing a new contract last year, but already has 4 turnovers so far this year. Cordarrelle Patterson: Is starting to work his way into playing time, and has been a great S/T player beyond his usual kickoff returns. Adam Thielen has worked his way into playing time and has shown to be incredibly reliable making tough catches. Sam Bradford Most disappointing players(3): Charles Johnson was the No. 2 receiver, is now the No. 4. Has done nothing with any playing time. Blair Walsh has missed several PATs and FGs. The entire Offensive Line, but especially TJ Clemmings https://twitter.com/pff_sam/status/793424278947557376 Short summary: It has been a very strange year for Minnesota thus far. Bridgewater dislocates his knee in a preseason practice  . The Vikings then traded for Sam Bradford (Lmao) for a 1st and conditional pick.The year started out better then anyone's wildest dreams, going 5-0 with the Defense looking absolutely dominant the whole way, beating the Packers in the opening game for US Bank Stadium, and the Panthers in Charlotte. After the bye week the defense has looked good (vs the Eagles) and bad (against The Bears). The offense has been unspectacular at best and down right awful at worst. They currently rank 29th in total yards, 23 in total points. Most of this can be blamed on the Vikings oline, as it is Seattle bad (maybe worse), currently averaging 2.6 ypc (for the whole season) and giving up 11 sacks, and 2 dozen QB hits in the past 2 games. The recent news is Norv Turner has resigned as the OC, and Pat Shurmur will be the interim OC. If this is will improve things is foggy at best. But, it couldn't be worse... Right?  The Vikings special teams are all over the place depending on where you want to focus on. Blair Walsh has been god awful. Missing several FGs and PATs, but Jeff Locke has been really really god drat good, and has been locking opposing teams inside their own 10 yard line at an incredible rate. The punt return unit has been good overall when S/T superstar Marcus Sherels is returning kicks, and the kickoff units have been solid overall (with the lone exception of the Josh Huff kickoff TD,) and Cordarrelle Patterson is still one of the most dangerous returners in the NFL. A level head says we are 5-2, leading the NFC North and still have one of the top defenses in the NFL. The offense may be bad, but with even slight improvement the team would return to being really good. A person looking to panic would say that we lost badly to the Eagles, and the Bears. If this level of play continues even the game against the Lions this week in Minnesota looks like a lose. Time will have to tell to see how it all shakes out, but Mike Zimmer has shown to be a really good coach and the smart money is them getting back to playing winning football. Paint Crop Pro fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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