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Hard not overreacting after a loss, but this was a beat down and this team is a complete mess right now.
- We are not well coached and continue to shoot ourselves in the foot with penalties and big momentum killing penalties. We get a nice kickoff return to start the game....nope, penalty. We are one of the most penalized teams in the league and it's inexcusable.
- The offense has been off all year long. Injuries certainly play a part, but damn, it's been ugly outside of a mopup game against the Bengals at home. I don't understand the playcalling at all.
- I thought it was a mistake not hiring Jim Harbaugh when given the opportunity and nothing I saw last night moved that opinion. My opinion on KOC is waaay down right now and I don't see this offensive "guru" the media continually hypes him up to be.
- Every team in the league is dealing with injuries, but good coaches and good front offices overcome them. Look at Tampa, San Francisco, and the Chargers. The Vikings are struggling because our depth is paper thin due to poor drafting and investing in older free agents that haven't panned out.
- This defense was designed to play with a lead and we haven't led much this year. We are small along the front seven and they got the absolute shit knocked out of them last night by a physical Chargers running game. Flores wanted to be small, quick, slashing and attacking to the ball, but that style is only really affective when playing with a lead. We aren't physical or hold up at the point of attack. I expect Gibbs, Montgomery and company to dog walk this defense all day next week. I don't know how you fix this issue moving forward. We have to get bigger and younger along our front seven next offseason. I think the design is just flawed and they were expecting more out of Hargrave and Allen. They didn't help matters by trading away our best run defending lineman, Harrison Phillips, before the season.
- McCarthy was not good when he played and the worst thing that can happen for us heading into the offseason is to be "undetermined" still at the quarterback position. He has to play this second half of the season and play well. I hate to say it, but is he just going to be a guy who is going to be injury prone? It's certainly possible at this point.
- If the Wilfs were smart (and they are not) and we end up picking top 5, top 10 (absolutely possible)....you send Kwesi/Grigson packing. I don't care about the extension. This is year 4 of the experiment, and if we end up spending millions upon millions in free agency and our draft picks suck...you cut your losses and move on. Bring in someone with actual scouting and personnel experience to run this ship and hire based on merit and not who Roger Goodell pushes you to hire based on race. I'm over this rosters shortcomings because of misevaluations in the draft and free agency.
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