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very impressed with the whole team effort. Disapointed AP came so close to breaking the record, but I think the WIN is way more important.

FailedtoOpen wrote:Hopefully this game will silence the notion that Ponder "Cant make the throws". He has a lot of improve on, especially in when he needs to hit a receiver in stride, but that Wright deep ball and the sideline Jenkins pass were really something special. If he gets a clean pocket, and doesn't hurry the throw he can make something happen. He has the ability, he just limits himself sometimes with poor mechanics.

Totally agree and I have been a critic. 4 offensive TD drives today, 3 TD passes, both season highs under highest pressure. More than impressive.

I have to say I was a little frustrated with the no calls against the packer receivers starting to block before the pass was completed. I see a lot of that next week and hope the officials will sit up and take notice. I'm sure they won't but I can't help wishing.

FailedtoOpen wrote:Hopefully this game will silence the notion that Ponder "Cant make the throws". He has a lot of improve on, especially in when he needs to hit a receiver in stride, but that Wright deep ball and the sideline Jenkins pass were really something special. If he gets a clean pocket, and doesn't hurry the throw he can make something happen. He has the ability, he just limits himself sometimes with poor mechanics.

I though the sideline throw to Jenkins was "special" but the throw to Wright was not "special". I think the throw to Wright was what NFL QBs' are supposed to do. I thought the throw to Jenkins on 3rd down was "special" It might be the position of the game. But Ponder delivered on that play.

great win today, the offense carried the team but then had to watch as our line backers and secondary continued to get burned drive after drive. The secondary was pathetic today and if Winfield cant go next week and we have no option other than to play Sherills and Jefferson.......... Rogers will have a field day picking on those 2.

FailedtoOpen wrote:Hopefully this game will silence the notion that Ponder "Cant make the throws". He has a lot of improve on, especially in when he needs to hit a receiver in stride, but that Wright deep ball and the sideline Jenkins pass were really something special. If he gets a clean pocket, and doesn't hurry the throw he can make something happen. He has the ability, he just limits himself sometimes with poor mechanics.

Let me make this clear. I am a Ponder fan. That said, I still doubt his ability to make "all the throws" There are still throws that he has not made this year, or ever. and those are...... some into windows that are closing. He did throw Jenkins open today into the endzone for a score. mighty impressive throwing laterally. I think he and Leslie have earned another season.

Does anyone know when Winfield left the game? Was it at the half?

I don't understand why when Atlanta and Detroit challenged touchdown plays that weren't eligible for challenging it cancelled the review upstairs but when the Packers did it on us they gave us some straight up horsecrap about the review booth buzzing first. Oh wait, the Green Bay Bad Calls would benefit from that.

This team has a marketable quarterback and a cult mystique so it gets to use the Rodgers Rulebook and I'm sick of it. We nearly got screwed at home!

Edit: Of course, all the Packers in this rotten state of Wisconsin are having a raging case of butthurt and complaining about the refs when they literally got gifted a road touchdown.

Hunter Morrow wrote:I don't understand why when Atlanta and Detroit challenged touchdown plays that weren't eligible for challenging it cancelled the review upstairs but when the Packers did it on us they gave us some straight up horsecrap about the review booth buzzing first.

This team has a marketable quarterback and a cult mystique so it gets to use the Rodgers Rulebook and I'm sick of it. We nearly got screwed at home!

I predict that the NFL will have some type of rule clarification come out on this issue in the next few days. Although it will be closing the door after the horse has left the barn. I think they should have stopped the review and given the ball to the Vikings at the 35. Carey's statement after the game won't help the NFL in the matter either.

The Jarius Wright "catch" was pretty bad but the touchdown favoritism was just crazy. The league has also formally apologized on two separate occasions in games where the Green Bay Referees beat the Vikings off of a series of atrocious "bad calls" that mysteriously benefitted Green Bay, once under Tice and once under Childress.

So it really pisses me off to see the Vikings get screwed with like that at home by the Rodgers Rulebook.

Delaqure wrote:I have to say I was a little frustrated with the no calls against the packer receivers starting to block before the pass was completed. I see a lot of that next week and hope the officials will sit up and take notice. I'm sure they won't but I can't help wishing.

It was so obvious too - at least the one I am thinking of. Anyone else gets a offensive PI on that. Like the Bears receiver who drew three in a game. And the weird stuff with the inadvertent red flag not invalidating the replay. They'll screw the Lions on that call, but will figure out some way for the Packers to gain the benefit.

dkoby wrote:
I though the sideline throw to Jenkins was "special" but the throw to Wright was not "special". I think the throw to Wright was what NFL QBs' are supposed to do. I thought the throw to Jenkins on 3rd down was "special" It might be the position of the game. But Ponder delivered on that play.

Its special in that people don't think he can throw it deep, but in reality its more that he is inaccurate when throwing deep. The pocket was perfect and he stepped up into his throw and delivered. Thats more the reason why I labeled it as special.

I'll drop this into the "post-game thoughts" thread, but it's more "post-season". The Vikings beat a 10-6 team, two 11-5 teams, and a 12-4 team this year. Have we ever beaten four double digit winning teams in a year before?

It's a tough game coming up, but the Vikes are legit. They belong in the playoffs - no fluke about it.

For anyone who thinks the Vikings will be mincemeat in the playoffs...they just beat two of the best teams that are going into the playoffs in a row. They started off the season kicking the crap out of SF. They also have experience playing all three of the teams that they would end up playing if they were to get past the Packers and Falcons. They definitely have the potential to be the upstart.

Raptorman wrote:Does anyone know when Winfield left the game? Was it at the half?

Pretty sure it was at half. He started the game w/ a broken hand though.