Interesting perspective
Last night the Vikings:
— Eric Thompson (@eric_j_thompson) January 14, 2025
* Held the Rams to 2/10 on 3rd down
* Outrushed the Rams
* Ran 21 more plays and won TOP by 4:36
* Had 8 fewer penalties for 75 fewer penalty yards
Negative plays (-82 yards on 9 sacks, -2 turnover margin) simply destroyed any chance they may have had.
Forgot about the missed blocked punt where the ball magically seemed to go right through KGH's body.
It was a pretty dominating performance. I do agree with the idea that if 2 of those impact plays that didn’t happen would have happened or maybe like 6 of the sacks didn’t happen, it would have been closer. But we were not a functional offense that was going to score any substantial amount of points without miracles.
Maybe we’ll look back it and think the defense wasn’t as bad as we thought, but the offense absolutely stunk.
StickierBuns wrote:
Don't get in the way of the pitchfork crowd and the hangman's noose for KOC.
D was fine actually just like the Detroit game where we struggled is with Kevin O’Connell’s refusal to do adjustments when it was obvious his quarterback was struggling with throws down field and reads
MaroonBells wrote:
https://x.com/eric_j_thompson/status/1879220800588521870 One response: "Rams fan. Agree. Didn’t see it live. Watched the game on replay expecting to see the “dominance” that was all over the post-game talk. Didn’t see it at all. Maybe the DL pressure. But one incredibly missed blocked punt opportunity and that game goes to the wire."Forgot about the missed blocked punt where the ball magically seemed to go right through KGH's body.
Stats can be twisted. TOP, well they scored on defense and their offense scored quickly, so by itself, means nothing.
2/10 on 3rd down, they only faced 10 3rd downs. and one of those they went for it on 4th and we jumped offsides. Not saying it was a dominating performance by the rams on offense because our D did pretty well after the first couple of drives.
And yes, the sack, fumble and TD by our D that was taken away and the ghost of the blocked punt would have been huge swings.
Sam’s sacks were mostly due to his holding the ball for like an average of around 4.7 seconds per sack. 8 of his 9 sacks were on 4 man rushes. The ghosts were back…
A switch to Mullens might have salvaged things. Low % chance but still better than zero which is what Sam gave us. I've never seen a guy melt into a puddle so fast in all my life.
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