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fiestavike wrote: I think so too.

It doesn't matter. It was too close to matter. You gotta make a chip shot to win a playoff game...

fiestavike wrote: I think so too.

We shouldnt have to baby a kicker like that. I really hope we can trade him. I just cant take not relying on him at all. I bet 90% of the fan base was scared to death he would miss that chip shop. Had nothing to do with the laces or hashmark. Waslsh si CHOKE. Period. AS is AD in another big game.

If I'm Mike Zimmer how the #### do I NOT fire Blair Walsh ON the field and choke slam him through a wall in the locker room?

me4get wrote:the ball was straight up all 3 other FG's.

Still don't think you can put any blame on the miss because the ball was at a slight angle, especially that short of a distance. Walsh just flat out shanked it.

dkoby wrote:
It doesn't matter. It was too close to matter. You gotta make a chip shot to win a playoff game...

Of course, I just think they were planning to set that kick up on the right hash, and it ended up on the other side because that's where the seam was. Its merely trivia at this point. Walsh obviously should have made it. I doubt he will recover his confidence after that. He's toast.

PurpleKoolaid wrote: We shouldnt have to baby a kicker like that. I really hope we can trade him. I just cant take not relying on him at all. I bet 90% of the fan base was scared to death he would miss that chip shop. Had nothing to do with the laces or hashmark. Waslsh si CHOKE. Period. AS is AD in another big game.

I don't think his trade value is very high right now!

I'm running the danger of sinking into the mentality that no matter what the Vikings do there will be some supernatural force working against them.

PurpleKoolaid wrote: We shouldnt have to baby a kicker like that. I really hope we can trade him. I just cant take not relying on him at all. I bet 90% of the fan base was scared to death he would miss that chip shop. Had nothing to do with the laces or hashmark. Waslsh si CHOKE. Period. AS is AD in another big game.

No, it shouldn't matter. On the other hand as a coach it's your job to put players in position to succeed, if Walsh is better from the right hash then there is zero reason not to put him there.

TSonn wrote:I wonder if AD was supposed to stay on the right hash but saw a lane and went for the first down? It shouldn't matter but I bet that's what happened.

Maybe. If the possibility for a 1st was there, he had to take it.

One more year and the SB hope is smashed. I may as well realize the Vikings wont win a SB while I am alive. What a depressing thought. I wonder if Michael Bennett knows why god hates the vikings so much.

vikesfan87 wrote: Maybe. If the possibility for a 1st was there, he had to take it.

Yeah I wouldn't fault him for going for it!

Purple bruise wrote: Moot point, my grandmother could have made that kick and she is dead

It's not a moot point. If I saw the tendency for Walsh to miss from the left, everyone including AD should have been aware of it as well.

When the season is on the line, it's details like this that win or lose ball games, and today it lost us the game.a

God I wish I wasn't a Vikings fan sometimes. But God knows I'll be back again next year and every year for the rest of my life rooting for them, hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

Will this at least allow Rick Spielman to release that Jeff Locke is a horrible football player? What a joke of a punter he is.

Wouldas, couldas, shouldas and if onlys can kill a man. Time to think about hockey again.

Addendum: The end of the game gives Peterson a break.

...wisdom

I would have much rather seen a 35-0 blowout loss than a painful one like this. I hate beign a Viking fan.