Post Vikings Overreaction Thread

[602 Native]

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Refs are absolutely terrible.

At this point I am ok with reviewing every penalty called.

 

[Delmar M Lewis]

Unfortuneatly As A very longtime Cards fan it is Par for the course just happened to be the one game I could watch this year

 

[Dayman]

Aside from the MHJ touchdown, this was another nothing burger from this year's draft class. Actually, it was way worse than a nothing burger, as Adams had a big penalty, and Tip seemed determined to false start his way to defeat.

Also, I know it was only his game as a pro, but Darius Robinson made very little impact today. The times I watched him, he seemed to get handled pretty easily by the Vikings O-line.

 

[Harry]

The problem with Reiman is he’d conditioned the refs to think it was him.

 

[CardNots]

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Wasn’t even close, proves the ref cheat was in!

 

[CardNots]

The problem with Reiman is he’d conditioned the refs to think it was him.

Don’t buy that one bit…

 

[602 Native]

The problem with Reiman is he’d conditioned the refs to think it was him.

That is not how this should work at all.

 

[602 Native]

No one blames you young man.

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[Chris_Sanders]

My overreaction is we should have won but a young coach made poor choices, a young team made key mistakes, we fought an uphill battle on the penalty side, and Kyler shrank in big moments.

All of that and we lost by 1 on the road in a place we never win with a much worse roster.

I think we are so close it's maddening.

 

[602 Native]

My overreaction is we should have won but a young coach made poor choices, a young team made key mistakes, we fought an uphill battle on the penalty side, and Kyler shrank in big moments.

All of that and we lost by 1 on the road in a place we never win with a much worse roster.

I think we are so close it's maddening.

All of this is true.

 

[AZ Native]

My overreaction is we should have won but a young coach made poor choices, a young team made key mistakes, we fought an uphill battle on the penalty side, and Kyler shrank in big moments.

All of that and we lost by 1 on the road in a place we never win with a much worse roster.

I think we are so close it's maddening.

Sometimes you acutally make sense.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Sometimes you actually make sense.

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[SoonerLou]

I’m still puzzled at this decision. Did Conner getting hurt forced this decision???

What's the solution going forward with this offense?

I think we can execute in the redzone better. Its just tough to get explosive plays right now.

 

[DVontel]

Eh the rest of the game everyone was bitching about petzig being too conservative in the red zone. As usual, if the offense fails he can’t win with whatever he calls. That’s not defending petzig’s calls, but rather pointing out there is no way he’s winning no matter what.

Dawg I don’t care what other people were bitching about, I just I know I hated the hell out of that call. 1st & goal inside the 10 & instead of running the ball like we were doing that drive, we go 5 wide for no stupid ass reason which started the snowball effect. Just a completely stupid ass call from Petzing & his worst call since his tenure.

 

[DVontel]

And it’s not even the conservatives vs aggressiveness right there. I’m okay with passing. Just don’t make it so damn predictable which is clearly was cause I knew wasn’t gonna QB power since he’s not Josh Allen or Anthony Richardson’s frame. There should have been a RB in the backfield, NOT EMPTY. @Ouchie-Z-Clown

 

[cardcrazy]

Sam Darnold entered today 0-23 in his career as a starter when he trailed by 13+ points in a game. He's now 1-23.

Only the Cardinals!

 

[Russ Smith]

Eh the rest of the game everyone was bitching about petzig being too conservative in the red zone. As usual, if the offense fails he can’t win with whatever he calls. That’s not defending petzig’s calls, but rather pointing out there is no way he’s winning no matter what.

To me the key there was time. We were just over 4 minutes on the clock and it's first and goal from the 10. You obviously want the TD but you have to play the clock there too run the ball and if they stop you they have to decide do they call a timeout or not. The pass not only cost us the penalty, 15 yards and the down, it only took like 5 seconds off the clock. If you run there unless they call a timeout the next snap is going to happen 35 seconds later than it did.

as soon as we lined up empty I was furious

 

[Russ Smith]

Aside from the MHJ touchdown, this was another nothing burger from this year's draft class. Actually, it was way worse than a nothing burger, as Adams had a big penalty, and Tip seemed determined to false start his way to defeat.

Also, I know it was only his game as a pro, but Darius Robinson made very little impact today. The times I watched him, he seemed to get handled pretty easily by the Vikings O-line.

There was one play where we blitzed and I think got a sack where DR was right there so if the guy who got the sack didn't, he might have

 

[BACH]

My overreaction is we should have won but a young coach made poor choices, a young team made key mistakes, we fought an uphill battle on the penalty side, and Kyler shrank in big moments.

All of that and we lost by 1 on the road in a place we never win with a much worse roster.

I think we are so close it's maddening.

100% on point

 

[DVontel]

as soon as we lined up empty I was furious

!!!!!!!

 

[GatorAZ]

Looking back, 4th down from the 5 yard line with 4:30 to go.
A td wins the game. Play to win. We took the fg KNOWING a td would mean we lose the game.
Had we failed the Vikings would have had to drive at least 60 yards to TIE the game and 95 yards to score a td.

Bottom line, this staff chose to put it in the hands of the defense. It tells you what they think about this offense.

Kicking was the right call. If it’s on the 1-yard line with James Conner it’s a different story. The defense couldn’t deliver one last time.

 

[Russ Smith]

FWIW I don't have a replay to dispute it but Vikings fans are insisting someone on the right side of our OL jumped on the play where they called it on Reiman so they are saying the call was correct, the refs just got the wrong guy,.

Again I have no replay to confirm that

 

[Dayman]

The lack of interceptions from the defense continues to be a problem. Byron Murphy has 5 picks this season. All of our DBs combined have 3. None of our safeties have one yet, which seems almost impossible through 12 games.

The defense does produce some fumbles, but getting a pick or two here and there would be huge.

 

[Russ Smith]

Couple of comments.

On the TD pass to their TE, I still can't see why Mack Wilson fell down did he trip over someone else or the turf? I think he just fell down when the TE changed direction as Darnold ran that way.

Also same play, the Vikings OL deserves a ton of credit, when Darnold started running there's like 3 OL's in front of him and all 3 of them stopped at or before the LOS and didn't go over. When it happened live I thought that took so long they had to have an OL downfield but they didn't, really good discipline.

Also last drive, obviously the strip screwed up the whole drive but people saying Kyler panicked on 4th down need to watch the replay closely, there's NOBODY even close to open, when he threw that ball he was hoping Marv would come back and outjump the DB, Marv was REACHING for the ball but once again he didn't come back, I'm not sure where he was but I think he was well past the line to gain so he should have been coming back harder than he did as should the other receivers on the play.

Also, seen some comments about the 3rd and 6 draw play to DeMercado before we kicked a FG as not being aggressive, we ran the exact same play on 3rd and 5 later in the game and converted it and kept a drive going. I think the difference was DeMercado sold it better, the 2nd one looked like a pass much longer than the first one, the first one was obvious right away he was going to get the ball.

 

[Red on White]

What do you make of that?

Controlled large portions of the game against a 9-2 team at their venue.
Couldn't stand up when it really counted

Defense excellent in the 1st half.
Offense fairly methodical without many (any?) splash plays. Cautious near the endzone - why?

Had some poor luck with referee calls. Got lucky with the Kyler tipped pass that Wilson brought down.

Feel like we had them down but didn't go for the jugular. Left the door ajar and they were good enough to storm home.

Will that attitude on offense - low risk, take the points, minimal deep shots - carry into next week? Or will the consecutive losses force us to release the handbrake?