What a great timing to catch the beginning of the great Vikings slide 2015 edition.

Here we go:

The Glass Half Full:

- Datone Jones: Wow! He looks like a 1st round pick, he was everywhere and made a lot of important plays. Terrific game.
- The DL: Raji and Daniels were a major force today, they created a lot of push and nullified the run game of the Vikes. A+
- E.Lacy: He runs hard when he follows the FB and he gets yards, he is back.
- The James Jones Hoodie: It's never bad to have a piece of magical equipment. It worked!
- Mason Crosby: He would have made 12 field goals if needed. Not even a glitch.
- The injuries: Crazy but losing Hyde and Linsley actually helped us. Tretter seems to be playing better than Corey and whoever replaces Hyde in defense is automatically better. I do hope they are fine.
- J. Janis: See? He is not so bad! nice kick return provided a much needed spark.

The Glass Half Empty:

- A. Rodgers: He is still playing funny. Sometimes he is Joe Montana and sometimes he is Blake Bortles. What's wrong? Really.
- R.Cobb: Too many drops, just too many, if wee need one guy to be reliable he wasn't that guy.
- D. Backthiari: He is not playing strong must be banged up, made many mistakes and took some penalties. It's a critical position we need him to get better.
- R. Rodgers: He wasn't able to get open and missed some blocks he has up & down games but most downs than ups.
- Tom Clements: We won this game but the offense hasn't improved a lot, the 1st down runs are usually terrible and the draws on 3rd and 1 are making me lose all my hair. Still not good.

Next: Jay Cutler visits titletown. Enough said.

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Micah Hyde being out improves our defense tenfold. He should never touch the field.

Still confused about the Tom hate. He called a good game. Our players just didn't execute. This time it was even more clear that it is the players needing to get their heads out of their collective asses.

And I agree, Micah Hyde has had a rough year and his absence didn't hurt us at all.

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Keep the Glasses coming luigis!




The play caller must throw, block and catch the ball and break several tackles. You know this, stop playing!

Micah Hyde is a good Special Teams player and stop gap Safety. They've stretched him so thin on this whole "he's a swiss army knife" that they've compromised his being able to excel at ONE thing by making him a jack of all things.

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I've praised Tom in the first games so it's not hate at all. He is confused it seems he needs to regain his bearings.
Besides execution there were a few plays we could all predict and then yell at the TV when they lost yardage. That needs to stop.

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One screen the entire game?

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Why do we not do anything under center anymore??

I thought the offense starting playing better when Tretter entered the game. Have we been playing the wrong guy for the last two years? Maybe Lindsley could be used at guard and give Lang a game or two off so he's ready for the playoffs.

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I agree.
I've said before that I think Linsley is a case of the "Casey Hayward syndrome" a player that looks very good his first year but he is not really that good, then when he starts to makes mistakes he has already established himself as a starter.

I like Corey Linsley but I think Tretter is a better player.

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Tretter got overpowered a lot in this game. He's not nearly as strong as Linsley and he will always struggle with power players, which is the majority of the defensive tackles he's likely to face. He does seem to move well, though.