19, Minnesota least,
55 za'darius. Smith comes flying up the center, close to
the Gold Strike, and it's intercepted by cam Bynum and
that is your ball game.
Why wouldn't it come down to the wire? Why wouldn't it be
a spine Tingler? Why wouldn't my quite be throwing into
the endzone trying to win the game? That's 2022, Minnesota, Vikings
football.
Indeed it is I assume Paul Allen The Voice.
Of the Vikings slept. Well last night another day of up and
down and topsy-turvy a 23 to lie. 2:40 lead by the Vikings
in the first have almost completely evaporated. The Jets
kept coming
to Drives By the Jets in the final couple of minutes
that had an opportunity
to score. What would have been the game-winning touchdown?
Now, if they'd done it the first time the Vikings would
have gotten the ball back and had a chance to drive down and
obviously
when the game but the end it was it was all or nothing. It
was Winter, go home. And yet again, I don't know how they do
it because there are stretches of the game
where
the defense looks horrible. There are stretches a game
where the offense feels like it. Can't get out of neutral
And yet
when
the clock strikes 0
The one stat that matters points scored versus points.
Allowed the Vikings keep finding a way
and I talked to Patrick Peterson about this yesterday.
The defense has a belief among the 11 guys on the field,
they each individually believe that they're going to be
the one to make the play
that saves the day and one of them
always seems to figure out a way to do it.
Well, yeah, and it's their formula a, you know, Mike,
a lot of people talk about how there is a Randomness to
winning close games, one score game, one possession games,
whatever you want to call them. And
I don't know, maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But
I feel like the good teams are the teams that know how to make
the critical plays and the critical situations. And
I don't think that that's all that random.
The Vikings know how to do that this year,
you know, whether or not they allow teams back into the game.
They seem to be Be able to make the critical plays at the most
critical situations and that's what leads to victories. And
when you have guys who can make plays like that, we have guys
like a Patrick Peterson. He's been in the league for as long
as he's been in it and they understand that all it takes is
making the critical play to win the game,
then that's where you get to where you are.
So, I think that the Vikings certainly can still be one of
those teams that make noise in the postseason because they
know That they're battle-tested, right? If they
are in a tight game
they know exactly what they have to do to pull it out.
Well and I asked Peterson about that yesterday
as a relates to
the fact that you keep doing it, you know, you develop more
confidence that you will continue to do it like anything
else.
And one thing that he pointed out was that he starting to
notice that the opposing offenses
are bracing for it,
like here it comes.
And he said, you know, they must be talking about it during
the week. Hey, you get down to the fourth quarter, be careful,
you know, they got a knack for making something happen. That's
where we have to really be on top of our game. So everybody
gets to that moment. It's like any other competitive,
Endeavor, there's whatever it is that you've planned for and
you've talked about
it and you've been coached on it and it's been the subject of
meetings and then you get to that moment and you're like, oh
no, here it is. Oh well, this is where they're really good at
finding a way to make a play.
I don't want to be the one that screws up and lets them make
the play, like who's going to make the play and you get
thrown off. I think it becomes kind of Is self-fulfilling
prophecy
where the Vikings feel it and their opponents are starting to
feel it and that's where it becomes powerful. And the only
way to kill this Beast is to do what the Eagles did
and what the Cowboys did
you put them away
and you create no opportunity for any fourth quarter? Magic?
You are so far ahead. There's nothing they can do.
That's how. And I think that's how it's eventually going to
end for them. It's not going to be this
three-hour roller coaster in the Wild Card round. Divisional
round. Is championships Super Bowl at some point along
the way, to the Super Bowl somebody is going to squish them
and they're not going to have a chance to pull off that
dramatic victory at the end, that's my prediction and I will
Own It Old takes exposed, if I'm wrong.
Well, I mean, I think that that's not a terrible
prediction. I'm based on what we've seen from them against
the Cowboys and the eagles, which are two teams that they
would probably have to face at least one of them, right, in
terms of trying to make it
to the Super Bowl. So I don't, I don't see that as a bad
prediction by you.
I look and there still is a way that if they could just get it
all to click.
And we always hear Timo.
We just need to play
a complete Game, a complete Game. Well, the problem is
the other teams trying to play a complete game to, that's one of
the reasons. Why
all these coaches out there that are lamenting,
the inability to play a complete game or upset about it because
the other team just didn't say, go ahead, run your place. Yeah,
we're just pretend, we're not here, but the offense is good
enough. The offense has the potential.
To put up 30 to 40 points a game. If it can, click
the defense, we see in flashes, they can make plays.
It's just it's
it's like it's not even on the field. A lot of the times
between the 20s,
they just it's like they're like yeah go ahead, go ahead
and gain your yards. Will worry about worry about keeping you
from scoring will get inside the 20, which is exactly what
they did yesterday. I mean,
the Jets should have won this game and mic white even though his
Numbers weren't great. My quite looks the part and he has more
and more supporters in the locker.
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