Just to be accurate, we punted 6 times. The Vikings punted 5.
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My biggest concern was the 185 yards rushing and 6 yards per carry the Rams gave up. Those yards did not all come late in the game after the defense got tired. They will need to step up the run defense first or the pass rush will mean little.
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Seatless defense would have kept us in that game. The defense isn't very good yet and the offense is worse.
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A lot of those yards came after Chris Long got hurt, was out of the game and they started pounding our D's weakened Left side. staying away from Quinn!
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If you take away Patterson's big run (which occurred after Long left the game), the average drops to just above 4 per carry. And Peterson averaged 3.6 per carry on the day.
I thought we had the deepest defensive line in the NFL? No one can step up from that depth and hold their own?
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I'm sure they can. It'll be nice when Ethan gets rotated into games too. I think the problem wasn't as much with the front 4 as it was with the back 7. When you rush 4 most of the time (don't have the stats on that), it's pretty easy to get washed out on stretch plays. A few of those big gainers would have been nullified with just one made tackle instead of an initial whiff.
