Bears are not terrible- good win
very frustrating game after the first 1 1/2 qtrs. Bears made a couple plays and our ST came back to earth hard.
bears first Fg was basically one play, a 30 yd screen catching us in a blitz from the same side
Bears first TD was dished up by 1 amazing play by Mooney on a 39 yd 1 handed catch over good coverage.
Field converted multiple 3 rd downs with his legs and eluded at least 2 surefire sacks.
We throw the pick while marching and they recover both fields fumbles.
Our ST shit the bed today.
Our defense actually played well.
Needed this win at home and are right where we need to be. We were dominant most of the game on O and our coach is amazing so far. I was so weary of watching coaches not understanding the clock and playing conservative football. This O is balls out all the time. love it.
@"Riphawkins" said:@"purplefaithful" said:@"Riphawkins" said:@"Chuckf" said:@"purplefaithful" said:@"Riphawkins" said: While I’m satisfied with the win, or at least enjoying it. Why does this team historically let garbage teams with bad or backup QB’s have their best games against them? It boggles the mind! DiVISIONAL games...They are usually close and not pretty. Even in Bud Grants days.
Go look at 1976 results. The last Super Bowl year and one of the Vikings better teams albeit getting long in the tooth. Beat Detroit 10-9 due to a blocked extra point. Beat the Bears at home 20-19 ALSO due to a blocked extra point. Lost at Chicago 13-14. Lost at SF 16-20. Only losses of a season of which they tied the Rams, beat a 100% healthy Pittsburgh and went to the Super Bowl. Almost lost to Green Bay 17-10 up in Milwaukee. Vikings didn't roll anybody back in that era either. People are going to have to realize 1998 was an outlier that has only happened a few times in NFL history.
Different era, different style offenses were being ran then. Bud Grant was the early Zimmer. Get a lead and let his defense keep it. The rules hadn’t been bent towards the offense.I have no reason to think ‘98 should happen every year, or every game, but in ‘09 they beat the Lions 27-13, and 27-10, Packers 30-23 and 38-26, and Bears 36-10 and then lost 30-36, which honestly was them shitting the bed.
So, I guess they don’t always play down to their competition, but seem to do more often than not. Specially when a major player is hurt and replaced by a nobody.
I believe they went 1/3 that December, including that loss to the Bears. Cost them home-field and won them a trip to the Superdome 1/2010.I would have loved to have played the CG in the Metrodome instead...OH well :s
Yeah, that December was brutal. Not sure if they got big heads and thought they just needed to show up, but I wasn’t feeling very good about the playoffs.
But, they gave us just enough hope to suck us back in, specially how the offense played early in the New Orleans game.Still hurts!
A really bad Carolina team curb stomped them. So did the Cardinals. Bears jumped out to a huge lead and the Vikings came roaring back and got robbed in OT. Hunter Hillenmeyer BLANTANTLY grabbed and jerked Peterson's facemask so bad it almost twisted his head completely backwards and he fumbled. Should have been a facemask and VIkings ball 1st and 10 on the Bears 30 yard line. Instead Bears got the ball back
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