What it all means

The Vikings barely used Favre for the first couple of games. It was completely the AP show in Minnesota. It was a smart move, considering Favre doesn’t do training camps. As smart as that was then, it is just as dumb now to throw everything on Favre and make him win the game for you while he is rusty. It seems like Chilly completely forgot about everything other than getting revenge for Favre.

what does it mean???

It’s almost a triple rainbow!

give some credit to the Minnesota defense

No doubt.

This game was won by vastly superior coaching.

I don’t know about Hartley though. He’s either hurt or messed up in the head. Dr. Melfi?

without any “remember me hits.”

I saw one. Favre took a helmet to the gut that knocked him on his back. I don’t know why I thought he wasn’t going to get up, but he did, calling for a penalty that never came.

Childress and Bevell are both idiots

rotoworld.com:

Adrian Peterson was a big part of the Vikings’ game plan early, but they inexplicably went away from him in the second half despite the fact that they were down less than a touchdown the whole way. AP finished with 87 yards on 19 carries and three catches for 14 yards, but could have had a truly monstrous game if Minnesota stuck with him.

I agree with everything you say, M-E, but I’m not quite as concerned about the run D as you may be. I thought the D looked fired up and improved last night. Sedrick Ellis looked much improved, as did Remi Ayodelle. Roman Harper looked awesome too at times. Are there still Saints fans out there who want to trade him? You might be a few cards short of a full deck if you do.

Yeah, Peterson broke some big runs, but he’s the best RB in the league, IMHO, and he was really fired up last night. He looked ready to carry his whole team on his shoulders. When he gets like that, he’s crazy hard to bring down with the first hit. We have another big test next week with Frank Gore and then Turner the Burner the week after. It doesn’t get any easier from here, that’s for sure. After holding the VIkes to 9 points (awesome point after block, Remi!), I feel pretty good about our D. I’ll wait until I see how they handle Gore before I get too concerned.

As for Hartley, those misses were inexcusable. Let’s count our lucky stars he didn’t kick that way last postseason. He didn’t just miss, but he missed bad to the left each time. Could there have been a problem with the snap/hold? I didn’t see it if there was. His kicks didn’t have the punch and loud “THUMP” like in the postseason. He’s gotta figure that out, and I’m sure he will.

We played against Adrian Peterson.

It happens.

Can someone please explain that s*** to me?

Carl Nicks – perhaps the best I’ve seen him play.
Courtney Roby – played incredibly well on special teams coverage.
Sed Ellis – had several blow up plays and our only sack.

Everyone else pretty much rates a meh.

The Saints held peterson to less than 80 yards rushing. That in itself is out freaking standing.
I feel a whole lot better with our run defense this year.

I thought we won the game cause of time of possession.

Until he does this a few more times we need to stop panicking.

I was about to write a fan post titled Bizarro Analysis because it seemed like all the other posts applauding the defense and down on the offense were exactly the opposite of what I saw. Thanks for pointing out just about everything I was thinking MtnExile. Just a couple of other quick points.

- Brees completed 75% of his passes! The dropped passes, especially Meachem’s in the endzone, stand out because they happened at really bad times.

- The imbalance in the offense was definitely part of the game plan. Minnesota is notoriously difficult to run against, and their secondary was incredibly depleted. Attack your opponent’s weakness, not his strength.

- I’m wondering if Hartley’s missed FGs had anything to do with the new turf. I remember a lot of slipping in the preseason games. He can’t have had many practice kicks on it. I didn’t really notice, but was his footing solid? A little slip with his plant foot would bring his kicking foot further forward and hook the ball to the left. I don’t know if that’s what happened, but it would explain it. In any case, I’m not too worried yet. He would have to have a lot more critical failures to fall as low as Grammatica.

- The run defense did well in terms of not letting Peterson break any really big ones, but the tackling still needs lots of improvement. I know AP is one of the best, but the Saints will face several great RBs this year, with better coaches. They need to tighten this up to have a lot of success.

and only 1 game of course, v. a stout opp. was better short yd. rush and better v. the Run,. Jenkins didn’t get embarrassed. Hartley I can give a pass on the 1st miss, but the 32 yd. miss can’t happen. Maybe he “Over” kicked it, trying to use the 9I when he needed only the sand wedge, it looked like the miss in the TB game late last yr, started out end-over-end but ended sideways,hooking badly. Hartley has a new holder this season?, snaps looked good, and he was nailing them in pre-season. We also dropped passes we usually don’t drop. The game also reminded me of last. yrs. Buffalo game, good D, and Pierre finding a groove in the 2nd H.

Childress clueless, and may miss the play-offs. GB’s div. to win. Detroit and Chi. will won’t be easy W’s . The Vickies could lose 2 to GB and 1 ea. to the others and be 2-4 in the Div. thats if Farve can hang around for 16 wks.

grandpa Fav-re signaling the plays to Childress on the sideline???

This game was won by vastly superior coaching.

I’m going to toot my own horn here and remind our podcast listeners that I said it would be coaching that would win this game.

That is all.

But on our final knee , Harper lined up in the backfield and Drew
tossed him the ball. Was that to recognize his contribution to the
cause? And if so is this traditional?