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These Vikings make me want to . No, literally, I feel sick. These guys are so hard to watch. This is what we get after a bye week? Is there EVEN A DEFENSE ON THE FIELD?!?! Pretty sure they are still on their bye week. Same stuff, different day. I think I'd be more shocked if they DIDN'T disappoint!

Side note: R. Cobb might be done for...a while. He just took an UGLY hit to his knee. Sounds like they lost J. Jones earlier, too.

Purple Reign wrote: That's the definition - you figure it out. If a player spins the ball when no other opponent is around, then it's not taunting. But if you do it next to an opponent, then it's considered taunting. Not all that difficult to understand.

You said "at his feet" in your initial post.

Dumb rule either way.

Purplemania wrote: For me, someone that has a concept of TODAY'S game. That means no to these old school coaches like Cowher, Gruden, and even Dungy.

We need Cowher Someone that will get in the face of all our primadona overpaid slobs and call them out in the post game presser when they play like this insted of Fraziers "I need to be their buddy" attitude. If they dont like getting embarrassed then play better...period.

MelanieMFunk wrote:These Vikings make me want to . No, literally, I feel sick. These guys are so hard to watch. This is what we get after a bye week? Is there EVEN A DEFENSE ON THE FIELD?!?! Pretty sure they are still on their bye week. Same stuff, different day. I think I'd be more shocked if they DIDN'T disappoint!

Side note: R. Cobb might be done for...a while. He just took an UGLY hit to his knee. Sounds like they lost J. Jones earlier, too.

Hi Mel! You on board with the calls for coaching changes too?

Purplemania wrote:
Lack of talent and stubbornness by the coaching staff. However, I blame the coaching staff more. I think to be a great coach in this league, you got to play to play to your player's strength, not force them to play to your scheme. This is evident by the teams doing well today. Look at how they adjust their schemes to make sure their best players shine.

I felt like we added talent from last year's team, but we look so much less inspired. That's where my "what happened?" question is coming from. On D, we only lost Jasper Brinkley... and gained some first round rookies. I don't get how we've dropped off so much.

me4get wrote: Spinning the ball at anytime is supposed to be unsportsmanlike conduct this year. Also using the ball for any celebration, e.g. pointing it for first down is also the same penalty.

Can you point to a source somewhere that verifies this? All I see is that taunting will be called more. Can't find any reference where they say just spinning the ball will be a penalty.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/8/8/45 ... anges-2013

JEC334 wrote:I just tuned in. Anybody wanna tell me why are we losing 14-3?

Texas Vike wrote: I felt like we added talent from last year's team, but we look so much less inspired. That's where my "what happened?" question is coming from. On D, we only lost Jasper Brinkley... and gained some first round rookies. I don't get how we've dropped off so much.

NOT lack of talent, COACHING!!!!

Texas Vike wrote: I felt like we added talent from last year's team, but we look so much less inspired. That's where my "what happened?" question is coming from. On D, we only lost Jasper Brinkley... and gained some first round rookies. I don't get how we've dropped off so much.

The dropoff from Winfield to Robinson is staggering. Say what you will about Brinkley, he's a solid two-down run stopper. Erin seems to be mediocre to below average at both run and pass defense. Still have a gaping hole at NT (IMO).

me4get wrote: NOT lack of talent, COACHING!!!!

Agreed. This team has tons of talent. Coaching decisions have been awful.

Hopefully the Wilf's have been thinking about the new HC. They didn't extend his contract so maybe they knew they would have to be looking.

Robinson made the stop on special teams. I'll take it.

yezzir wrote:Agreed. This team has tons of talent. Coaching decisions have been awful.

Cook's holding, Sanford's INT drop can not be attributed to coaching.

brett favre

Just Me wrote:Robinson made the stop on special teams. I'll take it.

That should be his only role.