Red Mosquito

amazing collapse by the Browns.

just amazing.

like what i saw from Mac, today. was able to evade pressure while keeping his focus downfield a few times. some nice throws, too. the rainbow to Jimmy was great. i expect ups and downs, but that was a good first showing.

Self wrote:like what i saw from Mac, today. was able to evade pressure while keeping his focus downfield a few times. some nice throws, too. the rainbow to Jimmy was great. i expect ups and downs, but that was a good first showing.

Looking forward to week 4

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Self wrote:like what i saw from Mac, today. was able to evade pressure while keeping his focus downfield a few times. some nice throws, too. the rainbow to Jimmy was great. i expect ups and downs, but that was a good first showing.

Looking forward to week 4

shutting my phone off that night

Mac Jones > Daniel Jones already.

Self wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Self wrote:like what i saw from Mac, today. was able to evade pressure while keeping his focus downfield a few times. some nice throws, too. the rainbow to Jimmy was great. i expect ups and downs, but that was a good first showing.

Looking forward to week 4

shutting my phone off that night

football

verb_to_trust wrote:Jordan Love was 5-7 today. Just saying.

against a second string prevent defense in garbage time lol

spike wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:Jordan Love was 5-7 today. Just saying.

against a second string prevent defense in garbage time lol

He's the future

lol at arod's slicked back hair in the press conference...total heel look

He's not going to finish the season

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:lol at arod's slicked back hair in the press conference...total heel look

He looks like mac's dad from Sunny

verb_to_trust wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:lol at arod's slicked back hair in the press conference...total heel look

He looks like mac's dad from Sunny

or CM Punk

Self wrote:like what i saw from Mac, today. was able to evade pressure while keeping his focus downfield a few times. some nice throws, too. the rainbow to Jimmy was great. i expect ups and downs, but that was a good first showing.

Does James White go by Jimmy?

Positives all over for Mac (with a simple playbook), missed a few through including the one to Henry that Flores didn't challenge. Fumbles by 2 young RBs were obviously killers.

Strat wrote:Its just always the fucking same with the Vikings.

Dont show up to play, shit ton of penalties, take forever to get the wheels going, backed up, no consistency.

Geezes christ just blow this organization up already.

From The Athletic:

I’ll be watching for two things from Minnesota: how coach Mike Zimmer balances his tendency to blame others with a coach’s duty to take responsibility, and how the offense performs with a shockingly inexperienced staff.

On the first point, Zimmer almost never seems to take the blame for team performance shortcomings.

Before the Vikings 27-24 overtime defeat in Cincinnati on Sunday, Zimmer dismissed fans’ concerns about his team’s defense, suggesting in remarks to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that “if you polled all the offensive coaches in the league, they would say that I’m still ahead of the curve.” Zimmer also suggested the Vikings nearly pulled off one of the “best coaching jobs there was” by winning seven games last season “with the group that we got” on the roster.

Notice the framing? Good coaching, not-as-good playing.

At halftime of the loss in Cincy, Fox reported that Zimmer thought quarterback Kirk Cousins held the ball too long in the first half. After the game, Zimmer noted that the Bengals succeeded in a key fourth-down situation even though the Vikings had practiced against that specific play.

This wasn’t a direct shot at the players, but the framing was familiar.

On the second point, Minnesota is a team with an outspoken and sometimes combative defensive-minded head coach, matched with a first-time offensive coordinator, first-time offensive line coach, first-time quarterbacks coach, no veteran backup quarterbacks and a rookie first-round left tackle who will miss at least the first three games of the season following surgery.

That combination, coupled with Zimmer’s tendency to speak his mind in ways that reflect poorly on others, could enable Zimmer’s most combustible instincts when the results are poor. And the results are going to be poor, in my view. Arizona, Seattle and Cleveland are next on the Vikings’ schedule. What could go wrong? Not the coaching, most likely.

You hate to see it

football is back, baby.

so are the broncos...

this was basically the final preseason game for teams. no sense in getting too excited or upset.

I don't think it's like a preseason game at all. Full playbooks and rosters are unleashed, unlike in the preseason. But it is true that most teams usually do not show their true colors until after severalish games are played.