Vikings Love in Vegas

GBBob · #1 01-25-2010, 01:52 PM

1) Lost the toss going into OT. Should have called tails

2) Shouldn't have that stupid rule (1st team to score wins the game.)Agree...dont think they should adopt college stuff, but each team should either kick off once or get possesion through punt

3) Kicker should of knocked it out of the end zone (instead, a tired team has to cover a return.)Longwell ain't that young anymore

4) Really bad P.I. call in OT (really points out why OT shouldn't be won by the 1st team to get a field goal.) I think the receiver literally tripped over his own feet and wasn't even touched, not even to mention the ball was uncatchable

5) Didn't get the call on a a questionable catch in OT. I've seen that go either way. To me, it's a catch, but often it's not to them.I think it was a catch and there definitely wasn't enough evidence to overturn call on the field

6) Some fool didn't have his hands in the proper position to receive the hand-off from Farve (after the Bush Blunder.) Yep, there's that 3 points that turned out to be rather necessary. That was a killer play for Vikes and really let Bush off the hook for a dumb and selfish play on the punt.

7) Should you really expect a Q.B. to be able to win a game when his team is not taking care of the football at all?

8) How about giving the Saints some credit for pounding him? It's pretty predictable that a hurt Q.B. will be one who makes an important mistake. Fact is he got them to a tie, and then he never got a chance to play in O.T. He made some really nice passes to get them into Saints territory on that last drive. He played a lot better than I expected. The rest of his team played a little worse than I expected. Saints didn't play very well. If they cover like that, then Manning will destroy them.[/quote]Most amazing stat to me was that Favre was actually never sacked once ( I think)..He was absolutely killed back there and that probably let to him not just taking off with the ball instead of throwing back across the field

SniperSB23 · #2 01-25-2010, 01:58 PM

Pass Interference may have been the wrong call if the ball was uncatchable but it is still illegal contact which is 5 yards and an automatic first down. I didn't see anything in Minnesota's defense down the stretch to suggest that Brees wouldn't have drove them down anyways if they only called illegal contact.

Also, major props have to go to Jermon Bushrod (great last name). Jared Allen was practically nonexistent after the national anthem and he was blocked one on one a lot of the game.

GBBob · #3 01-25-2010, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Pass Interference may have been the wrong call if the ball was uncatchable but it is still illegal contact which is 5 yards and an automatic first down. I didn't see anything in Minnesota's defense down the stretch to suggest that Brees wouldn't have drove them down anyways if they only called illegal contact.

Also, major props have to go to Jermon Bushrod (great last name). Jared Allen was practically nonexistent after the national anthem and he was blocked one on one a lot of the game.

Do you think the Viking LB even touched him? I''m not sure I saw contact at all.

SniperSB23 · #4 01-25-2010, 02:00 PM

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Do you think the Viking LB even touched him? I''m not sure I saw contact at all.

Yeah, I thought there was no question that there was contact beyond five yards.

SCUDSBROTHER · #5 01-25-2010, 02:02 PM

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Yeah, I thought there was no question that there was contact beyond five yards.

You want that called all the time?

SniperSB23 · #6 01-25-2010, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

You want that called all the time?

As a defensive guy I absolutely despise illegal contact. It is a rule put in to make it virtually impossible to cover wide receivers. But the rule is in place so yes they should absolutely make that call anytime a defender initiates contact beyond 5 yards.

Danzig · #7 01-25-2010, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by SniperSB23

As a defensive guy I absolutely despise illegal contact. It is a rule put in to make it virtually impossible to cover wide receivers. But the rule is in place so yes they should absolutely make that call anytime a defender initiates contact beyond 5 yards.

i also think there are far too many rules these days to get the score high. apparently some like a game such as the pack/cards game a few weeks back. i can't stand high scoring, no d games.

regardless of rules, refs are terribly inconsistent.

and yeah, favre was getting murdered last night. saints made him pay dearly for the passing game. the colts won't make the same mistakes the vikings made; i expect a saints loss in miami.