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Four more years!
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If you're an owner with a head coach who's got a 32-25 career record and has never won a playoff game, what do you do?Lock him up through 2013 while making him one of the highest-paid coaches in the league, that's what.Maybe by 2013 Tony Dungy will want to come back? Please?
Childress adds new wrinke to offensive playbook
2 days ago by
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Really, I could see Brett Favre lobbying for this play. I seriously could.
An Emmy-winning performance
4 days ago by
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While there's little outright complaining, there seems to be an undercurrent of mild grousing about the Vikings "only" beating the Lions 27-10 on Sunday and not putting the game out of reach until the 4th quarter. In fact, it seems like the Vikings always struggle with...
Vikings win division without even playing
12 days ago by
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It's not technically over yet in the NFC North. But, thanks to losses by Chicago and Green Bay on Sunday, it would take a few minor miracles for the Vikings not to claim their second straight division crown in 2009.Here's how things currently stack up:Minnesota: 7-1Chicago...
The bad, the bad, and the ugly
18 days ago by
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I'm out of town until Saturday. With the Vikings having a bye and sitting pretty at 7-1, I thought I'd have some fun at the expense of the bad -- really, really bad -- teams in the NFL.* The Browns fired their GM, who was apparently picked by their coach (shouldn't that...
For the first time, Vikings celebrate Favre winning in Green Bay
20 days ago by
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Apart from a third quarter that had me swearing like George Carlin, the Vikings dominated the Packers in Lambeau Sunday, putting another lopsided number on the scoreboard in a 38-26 road victory that puts them at 7-1 going and in solid command of their division going into the bye....
You can go home again
22 days ago by
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So today, I thought, "How well does a QB fare against a team that he previously won a Super Bowl with?"The answer: Not too shabby. Here's my attempt at a comprehensive list, but since this is just for fun, I make no claims that there isn't an error or two. The record...
I can't come up for a title for this one
25 days ago by
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Vikings coach Brad Childress dressed up as a female flight attendant during the team's flight to Pittsburgh on Saturday, ESPN reported. The coach donned a wig, blue nylons and lipstick (framed around his beard).(Thanks to Daily Norseman for the link.)This is the mark of a coach...
Passing Unfancy: Vikings/Steelers
27 days ago by
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The defense wasn't a problem on Sunday. Even with Antoine Winfield out (for a while, it seems), the Vikings held the defending Super Bowl champs' offense to a reasonable 259 yards and 13 points.Unfortunately, the Vikings offense had the ball during the game too, and that rarely...
Why the Broncos are 6-0
29 days ago by
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The simple answer is, of course, "Their amazing defense and a really lucky play against Cincinnati." But consider the following two quarterbacks, each with the same number of pass attempts:Quarterback A: 4,526 passing yards, 25 TDs, 18 Interceptions, 86.0 passer rating, 6...
Time to clock Big Ben
October 22, 2009 by
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It's looking more and more like Antoine Winfield won't be in the starting defensive backfield for the Vikings when they travel to Pittsburgh on Sunday, and that could be trouble, if the second half against the Ravens was any indication. We've always had our reservations...
I don't mean to alarm anyone...
October 20, 2009 by
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But here's what happened the last time the Vikings started 6-0.That won't happen again, of course.We play the Cardinals in week 13, not week 17. And Nate Poole, may he burn in whatever hell he fears, hasn't played in the NFL since 2005. And there's no more push-out...
6-0...but just barely
October 18, 2009 by
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At the start of the season, you might have thought the over/under for the game to be around 30, but I wouldn't be shocked if each team managed 30 points.I said that yesterday, but I wasn't hoping it would turn out quite like that.At the start of the season, I thought our defense...
Battle of the Purple, 1998
October 17, 2009 by
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So, the Vikings play the Ravens tomorrow. Despite both teams having a reputation for defense, and both are doing fairly well defensively, neither has been as stifling as might have been predicted. The Vikings are 14th in the league in yards/game allowed, and 9th in points per game...
Play of the Day
October 12, 2009 by
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Some people will tell you that the play of the game from yesterday's rout of the Rams was Jared Allen's fumble-recovery-TD. But astute fans who stuck around until the end know that the most improbable, the most unbelievable, the most "How on earth did that happen?"...
Happy birthday (and anniversary)
October 10, 2009 by
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Happy 40th, you old coot.Meanwhile, 20 years ago, while the Brett Favre in that picture (or thereabouts) was celebrating his 20th birthday, the Minnesota Vikings were, by all appearances, deep in discussions with the Dallas Cowboys regarding a monumental trade that would reverberate...
What's in a typical drive?
October 08, 2009 by
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This post is about drives in the NFL. So, naturally, I'll be closing it out by talking about baseball.A few months ago, I wrote an article about the merits of "grinding it out" versus "airing it out." In that article, I made the assertion that "I read somewhere...
Now that's what I'm talking about!
October 06, 2009 by
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When I lived in Wisconsin for three years, a fellow Vikings fan said to me, on a Monday morning in the office after the Vikings had beaten the Packers, "There's nothing I like to see more than sad Packer fans."I don't know if Packer fans worldwide are more sad than...
Showdown
October 05, 2009 by
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I hear there's some big football game tonight. I don't know, have you guys heard anything about this?All kidding aside, I'll be turning ESPN on at about 8:37 p.m., and not a minute earlier, so as to avoid the HYPE (there's so much, it uses capital letters) that will...
They should stick to making beer
September 30, 2009 by
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From this link:ESPN hopes to hype records for its Green Bay-Minnesota game Monday night. Literally. ESPN, says spokesman Mike Soltys, will announce that on next Monday's broadcast of its ESPN2 SportsNation (5 p.m. ET), it will try to set a record for the most mentions of Brett...
The post that never was
September 28, 2009 by
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My blog post was about 90% written in my head before "The Play" yesterday. In it, I was going to lay into Brett "five yards and a cloud of RAC yardage" Favre and his mediocre play. I was going to make fun of everyone who was chirping about his 77% completion percentage...
San Francisco 89ers
September 25, 2009 by
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I started watching football in 1989. In those heady days, George Bush (the first) reigned as president, the U.S.S.R. still existed, Thursday night on NBC was real "must-see TV," thanks to The Cosby Show and Cheers, and I was a huge Debbie Gibson fan. (Shaddap!)And the San...
When Canadians attack
September 24, 2009 by
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One of the silliest paragraphs I've read in a while, from the keyboard of Yahoo! Sports' Jon Krawczynski:Even with Brett Favre at quarterback, [Adrian] Peterson is the key to the Vikings offence. He draws so much attention from opposing defences who stack eight or nine men...
The NFL hits the Oregon Trail
September 23, 2009 by
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You've probably already seen it on Daily Norseman, but just in case...
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