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Won’t matter in this game but you need better game management than UND had on its last possession. If you want to be a championship team then play and coach like one. I’ve seen too many screwups on offensive play calling so far this year, needs to get much better. Not just the last possession but in previous games we were snapping the ball often with 20 seconds left on the play clock while the game clock was running when we should have been milking the clock. These are mental mistakes and should be easy to fix.

Definitely down

Poor management, did not need to spike the ball and waste a down. Plenty of time.

21-3 1:46 left. Let’s get another before half.

Time to bury these guys.

That was a painful period to watch.

One of the Vikings problems has been the o-line play and all the injuries. That is definitely a problem but I can’t let O’Connell completely off the hook for it. Probably the biggest injury was to Darrisaw last season which he still has not been able to completely overcome. He is missing a lot of time this year due to that knee injury. This injury occurred in mid season last year against the Rams. The Vikings had the ball inside their own 3 yard line with about 30 seconds left in the first half of a tie game. The logical thing to do was take a knee and go to the locker room. Instead, O’Connell called a running play with Jones which got a couple of yards and a knee injury for Darrisaw. Bad luck? Sure, but the run was totally unnecessary. The risk/reward in that situation was firmly in the kneel down camp.

Terrible play calling again.

Second and goal from the 15. Run. Wtf?

Kwesi has shown so far that he doesn’t know what he’s doing drafting. The Vikings draft classes as a whole have been very underwhelming with little talent to show for it. They’re one of the older teams in the league and way over the salary cap for next season. They need to get a lot younger but don’t because they can’t draft. Kwesi needs to go and they need to get someone in there that can put a few good draft classes together.

Wentz is terrible but McConnell’s play calling doesn’t help. Someone, anyone else needs to take over that job. It’s been obvious for some time that he has no clue.

I’ve seen all I want to ever see of Carson Wentz.

Actually it is when it happens as often as it has this half. Talk to your players.

Unbelievably bad clock management

Please sell the team. Pohlad’s will just use the low attendance to cut more payroll which will result in fewer fans. Sure feels like the franchise is circling the bowl. Absolutely no reason to care about the Twins as long as the Pohlad’s are in charge.

They did try, jury is still out. Even if they all get healthy I’m not sure how it plays out. They need to get healthy in a hurry, after the Browns and a bye week they have the Eagles, Chargers, Lions, and Ravens. They could easily be 3-6 or 4-5 after those games. Losing to Atlanta at home is a major red flag on this season.

The Vikings will never join the elite teams that have true Super Bowl possibilities until they fix the offensive line and to some extent the defensive line. Not physical enough and they lose the battles upfront too often. There’s a reason the Eagles keep winning, they have one of the best if not the best offensive and defensive line combos in the NFL.

O’Connell may be good working with QBs and designing plays but he is a terrible play caller.

Dumb

I was hoping with a new head coach we could quit turning W’s into L’s. So far we are 3 games into the new regime and we are still doing it. I’ll give them some time but the early returns are not encouraging.

If the refs are actually being paid to call the game fairly then they all need to find a new job. Some of the no calls were absolutely insane, how do they miss that many calls unless they are purposely favoring one team.

ANOTHER holding not called. F the refs.

Horrible possession and clock management.

Probably need a TD. Have no faith in the kicker.

Pathetic