Simon

I hate it, but it's a valid point. At the time, I freely admit that I wanted him to go for it.

I said something yesterday about how Allen ought to be listening to Sinatra at halftime too. 🤷‍♂️ Passion is great at most positions, but at QB being dispassionate is equally as important, imo.

It's f'ing maddening. All we needed was a more traditional offense to consistently compliment a potentially great defense and instead we got a coked-up coordinator with zero self-restraint who thinks he's more important to the offense's success than the personnel on the field. If Buddy Ryan was still alive, I'd shove him into Dorsey's box, lock the door and let the fists fall where they may.

That was a disgustingly heads-up play by a very young WR.

They work when you're consistently setting them up with shallower route combinations. That has mostly gone out the window.

He wants to score on every play and his OC is not only doing nothing to reign it in, he's actively exacerbating the problem. You've got two guys in concert trying to go full hero ball and it's leading to game-losing turnovers. McDermott needs to have an honest talk with Josh and then ride Dorsey into a chicken wing until he knocks it the hell off.

I'm sure he was also licking his chops yesterday against a rushing defense that gives up more yards per carry than the Bills, right before he put up a whopping 63 yards.

Ask me again when we know whether he have Groot, Edmunds and Poyer.

Considering some of those throws he was uncorking, several with wide open arm angles, his elbow was not a problem yesterday.

I think the design is to hit the trailing McKenzie once Davis has cleared the zone. The Vikes misplayed it though and it ended up with Gabe unexpectedly coming free. Allen saw it and almost took it but then double-clutched when he decided to stick with the original intent. That delay made him a split second late into heavier traffic than was to be expected with the design. Edit: I'm referring to the 4th/2 in regulation. I have no intention of rewatching that last play that ended with me face down on my living room carpet.

Morse and Bates sealed the exact gap they were supposed to; Morse was even heading to the second level until he saw the 'backer heading for the wrong gap. Saffold's brainfart at the snap forced the back out of the designed zero hole that was going to be an easy first down and probably a TD.

If it was 6 seconds, I think they'd have taken a shot to Davis or Knox in the back corner. I think the Vikes had one left. We had two and would have likely still had at least one of them.

Wtaf is Saffold doing?

I'd wait as long as you possibly can to get as much updated info as is available, then make the final call. Lake effect is notoriously unpredictable and making a decision nearly a full week out is akin to throwing darts with a blindfold.

When do you have to decide by?

If Allen hadn’t fumbled, it’s likely a safety instead of a touchdown? Morse got blown off the ball? You can't kneel from the 1? Your imagination is a sight to behold sometimes.

If Dorsey/Allen don't get greedy on 2nd down on the final play and instead pick up 7-8 yrds on the next two plays, does McDermott eschew the tie and go for it on 4th and 2 again with 1:00 left in OT?

He said "sport", not soccer.

They had more than enough time to run teh ball 4 straight plays and he waited until they were first and goal. He did it exactly right and didn't waste a single second.

Right now they're a bunch of babes in the woods out there running around. They desperately need some of that veteran leadership back on the field.

He has no business being out there in an NFL defensive backfield. I know he's become an excellent ST's player and that the DB room is decimated by injuries, but he has yet to show anything he belongs out there with that defense.

He ate a ton of doubles and spent most of the day in the offensive backfield. There were a couple plays where he got buried by the Center while he was engaged with the Guard, but nobody could deal with him straight up.

Ask not and ye shall receive

Is this wind out of control there yet?

I hope you checked the font size first......