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That's incredibly useful for stats. Did not realize advanced stats were available without a paywall. Thanks for that.

This was us last week. We really did do our best to give the game away because we had the last 2 or 3 mistakes.

Chubba caught 7/8 this past sunday. He just has nothing after the catch. His average yard per reception is lowest on the team. Overall he's 12 of 16. Thomas is 9/12 which is a higher catch percentage than DJ Moore, but way less targets. Is that an issue of not getting open? I don't know. Arnold was 7/11 with much higher average yards, fyi. These stats are raw btw and I don't know how many were uncatchable balls for example. For giggles, Tremble is 3 catches for 6 targets, which is awful.

Jefferson's press conference the other day, he said he will definitely be playing sunday (of course so did CMC last week.) At any rate, nobody from the Vikings fanbase seems to think they won't be playing sunday, even though they haven't practiced all week.

The whole thing about opposing db's jumping routes and knowing what's coming is really concerning. I honestly think we lost this past sunday because of Joe Brady. I put at least one of Sam's interceptions entirely on Brady's shoulders. If he doesn't improve, I hope Rhule has the sense to fire him at the end of the season.

You haven't missed much. In fact, you should probably be thankful. This place has been a shitshow. I really hope we win sunday just so people's periods hopefully end. The dumbass hot takes have been extra this week.

If it was today? We'd lose 48 to 10. If we are 100% healthy at the end of the season and Darnold is playing like he did the first 3 games, we clean their clocks easily.

He has to run the route. He has to go to a certain point and then come back. That's his job. That's what Sam would have been expecting him to do. The corner didn't back up, because he knew Robbie wasn't a go route and jumped the route. If Robbie stopped his route early he would have been waiting on the ball and would be an even bigger tell to the CB. Comeback routes work because it gets the corner going down field, then the receiver suddenly comes back toward the line of scrimmage which takes the corner a second to compensate. If the corner isn't going down field though, this is what happens.

I'm not predicting. Just win.

I don't understand how some of these people aren't NFL coaches or GM's.

To add to this, also they are free agents. They have to WANT to come here. We can't just pick people and make them play for us if they don't want to. It's impossible to say who we targeted that came back and said "there is not enough money in the world..."

I think they took who they could and who fit their system. Not every olineman is good for a zone blocking system. Or put another way, a great olineman can look bad in the wrong system. I think "gambled" is a shitty way of putting it. Every player, every draft pick is a gamble. Nothing is guaranteed in football. The connotation in that sentence is odd because yes we gambled (every player is a gamble), yes we lost, no we are not on the hook for huge draft picks and dead cap. I'm not sure how these FA signings were big time losses? They weren't. We missed on two relatively cheap FA's in year 2 of a rebuild... Draft wise, I'm pretty sure the goal was maximize picks and get BPA because we still needed players all over the roster. Olinemen did not line up this year with that strategy except for Christianson who specifically traded back up for. I think if more olinmen graded out where we were drafting, we would have picked more olinemen, but those stars did not align. I imagine we will have a more targeted oline draft next year because we have much less holes compared to the last two years and most of those holes is on the oline. As for being aggressive vs running the ball. Darnold was playing like poo. Maybe the coaches could see Sam was a turnover waiting to happen and were purposely taking the ball out of his hands?

I didn't get the impression he was blaming defense or saying we lost because of the defense. He did say when we needed 1 more stop, the defense failed even after the investments made on that side of the ball. Period. Take that for what it is. That statement is not incorrect at all. The team is built right now for the defense to carry the offense. I think the defense did an outstanding job with the exception of a couple drives. It's hard to get a stop on a sudden change on a 27 yard field. Holding them to a field goal there would have been brilliant though. That was the 3rd turnover btw (blocked punt basically is a turnover imo). First one was held to 3 pts. Second one resulted in a punt, so the defense did it twice already in the same game. I think this place has a lot of people who a) like drama and b) are very angry people.

This guy doesn't have a mean streak. It's literally in his name.

He's not smiling and he's from the Jags. Bet he has mental health issues.

Someone is gonna complain he plays the wrong position.

Hey that one guy on here isn't going to have a meltdown now! He got his wish!

It's doable. Idk about likely, but absolutely doable. It's probably equally likely we lose 2/3. Pretty much a tossup at this point imo.

Idk. Rhule said Darnold needs to play in the system and seemed to be implying that Sam would skip over an open 1st read and go to the second instead of throwing to the first read. In the pic above, it's possible the first read was Royce Freeman (or is that Chuba?), wide open, skipped though for the next read. I can't say for certain if that play was to be read deep to shallow or vice versa though.

That's pretty dumb. It's been obvious since week 1 they weren't as bad as the Falcons. They are an under .500 team but not bottom 5.

We were always going to sneak into the playoffs at best and (very likely) lose in the first round if we did. This isn't really news. Personally, I think playoffs is still possible. Doubtful, but possible. The oline would have to get their ish together and play better for it to happen, which is unlikely. Looking at the NFC though, there is two spots available with no clear favorite for those 2. (Cardinals/Rams seem a lock for one of the 3 wildcards.)

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Were they suppose to just not have a QB??? I mean, it's obvious Rhule and co. want to win. They weren't rolling with PJ or Greer. They had to take a shot on somebody. So yeah, they went with their last option before the fug it just tank options. Was there a better option this past offseason that I'm not aware of?

Sam's gotta play better. If Sam still looks like poo, even with a win, idc. Sam can't be the guy he was this past Sunday. I'd really rather him work out then for us to be QB limbo. Either way, we have to win this week.

Did the defense allow the Eagles to take the lead? Did the defense stop the Eagles on their final scoring drive? Answer "yes" or "no". You won't. Defense played lights out, but it's fair to say they have blame. Also if you watched the press conference, he clearly did not want the defensive players thinking it's the offense at fault. He doesn't want an offense/defense rift in the locker room. It's a team. They all win or they all lose. The defense did not lose less than the offense. That's the message Matt Rhule was conveying. He went into detail. You either have to be mentally less capable or purposely spinning to not see how his answers were framed in regards to those questions.