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While the Vikings had a couple, I would like to focus on a handful of plays that completely flipped the game away from us. Now, while the final score wasn't good......it showed an inability of our offense to give our defense a chance to get their wind....
#1. 3rd and 8 from the Minn 39 yd line (1st Q). Hill hit Quick w/ an out for 7 yards when we needed 8. It made us try a 50 yd FG and while Zuerline should not has missed.......a question screams out of why didn't everyone understand we needed 8 yards. Hill wasn't overly pressured and had time to throw a bit longer route. It stopped a decent drive w/ an execution error. I liked what Quick brought to the dance today, but there still are some errors that need to be fixed.
#2. First and 10 from the STL 48. Hill hits Quick on a crossing pattern and on the end of the play, Quick tries to stiff arm the defender and inadvertently gets his hand caught in the face mask. I understand what Quick was trying to do. And I don't think it was malicious. He wanted to control the defender and in the execution (and the different heights of the 2 players involved....) used his stiff arm higher than he should and the result caused him to get a couple of fingers caught in the facemask. And trying to free them gave further reaction from the defender, causing the ref to have to call the penalty. Once again...this is a mindset thing. If Quick just catches the ball and does not try to "impose his will" upon the defender, We are at the Minny 31 and now, Minnesota has to change their defense to keep our passing game under check. As it was we ended up w/ a first and 5 which we picked up on the ensuing play, but the drive stalled when we had a no call, (Ball was already in the air?!?!?) a OPI on Givens, a couple of incompletions and a "nothing" play where we picked up 3 yds on a 3rd and 20. It would have been interesting on the no call play if Quick had not been the aggressor (on the penalized play) earlier.
#3. 2nd and 16 from our 19 yard line. Hill forces a throw into double coverage when Britt was open underneath and it was only 2nd down. This was a back breaker. It gave the Vikings their first TD. and a was an easier throw to hit Britt and let him get what he could and then step out of bounds. Than to force it into Cook. I thought the best thing about Hill was he wouldn't force things into possible turnovers. One could say....that one was the scale tipper.
Those 3 plays,,,,,was the ball game. Yes the pick 6 sealed the deal. But a change in those 3 plays could have swung the game around to us. While I still believe we are better than last year. We just aren't good enough to overcome our own mistakes. And today against a hungry and well prepared team. It showed.
#1. 3rd and 8 from the Minn 39 yd line (1st Q). Hill hit Quick w/ an out for 7 yards when we needed 8. It made us try a 50 yd FG and while Zuerline should not has missed.......a question screams out of why didn't everyone understand we needed 8 yards. Hill wasn't overly pressured and had time to throw a bit longer route. It stopped a decent drive w/ an execution error. I liked what Quick brought to the dance today, but there still are some errors that need to be fixed.
#2. First and 10 from the STL 48. Hill hits Quick on a crossing pattern and on the end of the play, Quick tries to stiff arm the defender and inadvertently gets his hand caught in the face mask. I understand what Quick was trying to do. And I don't think it was malicious. He wanted to control the defender and in the execution (and the different heights of the 2 players involved....) used his stiff arm higher than he should and the result caused him to get a couple of fingers caught in the facemask. And trying to free them gave further reaction from the defender, causing the ref to have to call the penalty. Once again...this is a mindset thing. If Quick just catches the ball and does not try to "impose his will" upon the defender, We are at the Minny 31 and now, Minnesota has to change their defense to keep our passing game under check. As it was we ended up w/ a first and 5 which we picked up on the ensuing play, but the drive stalled when we had a no call, (Ball was already in the air?!?!?) a OPI on Givens, a couple of incompletions and a "nothing" play where we picked up 3 yds on a 3rd and 20. It would have been interesting on the no call play if Quick had not been the aggressor (on the penalized play) earlier.
#3. 2nd and 16 from our 19 yard line. Hill forces a throw into double coverage when Britt was open underneath and it was only 2nd down. This was a back breaker. It gave the Vikings their first TD. and a was an easier throw to hit Britt and let him get what he could and then step out of bounds. Than to force it into Cook. I thought the best thing about Hill was he wouldn't force things into possible turnovers. One could say....that one was the scale tipper.
Those 3 plays,,,,,was the ball game. Yes the pick 6 sealed the deal. But a change in those 3 plays could have swung the game around to us. While I still believe we are better than last year. We just aren't good enough to overcome our own mistakes. And today against a hungry and well prepared team. It showed.
