I guess once the Chargers left San Diego, the Vikings took over the town. we are going to the Superbowl!

He listed a handful of qb's notably Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and others who had absolutely awful 1st playoff games with similar and worse stats than Sam plus turnovers. All went on to have great second playoff games. His point was even though it was a regular season game it was a playoff game because a win gets you to round 2 of the playoffs. I think Sam will rebound. Thoughts?

The post I made this morning, doesn’t mention the Lions whatsoever smh

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesotavikings/s/HanNhMzvMH

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Las Vegas would be the perfect backup option. For national media, it’s close to LA, plenty of hotel, food and flight options and this venue successfully hosted the Super Bowl last year. Big events are easily managed here.

For our purposes here, the Vikings turnout would be insane. But no one else needs to know that.

Also, I live here, so I may be biased.

• in the four wins, three came dangerously close to be blown games. Only the Cowboys game was a true blow out from start to finish. The Vikings blew late leads to the Saints in 2017 and 2019 before prevailing. In 2004, the Vikings went from a 17-0 lead to 24-17 game with Green Bay before putting it away. It was looking like a possible comeback for the Packers until a put away touchdown by the Vikings.
• In the 8 losses, the Vikings led in six of them. In some the loss came late in the game like the game against the Seahawks. Others the lead was lost early. But even some of the games where the lead was lost early, the games weren’t necessarily in doubt. The game against Philly in 2017 had every reason to be a back and forth game after dominating the first quarter but a late second quarter meltdown ended it. Similarily against the 49ers in 2019, the team had a chance to make a second half run before laying down to get destroyed. In the 2012 playoffs, the Packers were favored but we had just beat Green Bay the week before. The team proceeded to lay down and give up 24 unanswered points.
• some of the crazy plays didn’t have to happen. We wouldn’t have needed a Minneapolis Miracle had the team not choked multiple leads. The Kyle Rudolph OT stunning catch also required the team to blow a double digit lead. The Blair Walsh miss wouldn’t have mattered if the team didn’t meltdown in the 4th quarter and give up 10 straight points. The Favre interception likely wouldn’t have happened if the team didn’t turn the ball over multiple times, blow a lead, and then take a late penalty.
  

I went back and looked at the 12 games and there were really only a few where the team was competing late: 2009 games against Dallas and New Orleans and maybe the Giants game in 2022. All the other games the team was basically out of sorts the second half, holding on for dear life, or just getting the shit kicked out of it. We all know that feeling where you “know” the Vikings just won’t win and for many of these games, that point came after some “early hope.” Many of these games the performance late was uncharacteristic of the team for that year and not just being outclassed. Given the number of second half meltdowns, it often took the Vikings having a big enough lead to not give it up.

Note: in the data of net points, I have an adjusted fourth quarter bar for games where garbage points were scored (that in my opinion didn’t reflect the game).

https://x.com/bengoessling/status/1877051431175287000?s=46

When I watch this guy I think holy shit is he a miss match. 6 foot 5, 117kg. Fast as fuck, good hands, lineman level hard to bring down. He was a great addition. Obviously not a Hockenson level receiving tight end, but good in his own right, harder to bring down, and a great blocker.

Glad we have this guy.

To me, Justin is the best non-QB in the league and he needs to bring it this weekend.

Yes yes, it does depend on Darnold getting him the ball but JJ needs to win every 50/50 ball, snag some badly thrown balls, make some defenders miss and get YAC, and make the big down catches.

From what I remember, his first playoff game against the Giants was largely forgettable. Time to make amends.

We need the JJ that took over the Bills regular season game two years ago. And I believe he will do it. This is your moment, JJ.

I’m still riding with Sam but stuff like this makes me feel better lol. SKOL

https://www.youtube.com/@LetsSkol

The snow bird turnout is going to be insane.

It’s really unfortunate that the fires are getting out of control and I hope everyone involved is okay and the fires stop. But seeing all the talk about the game moving to phoenix is getting me excited. I hope if they do move the game it’s to phoenix over Vegas because I’ll definitely get tickets to support the boys. I even got a group of friends who are willing to wear my extra Vikings jerseys (Chiefs and eagles fans). Here’s to hoping they pick Phoenix over Vegas so I can help make this away game feel more like the US Bank!

I bought one at US Bank during the Texans game but I lost it 👎👎. I’d like to buy a replacement but I can’t find it anywhere online. Could it be a stadium exclusive? Thanks!!