Vikings @ Broncos Gameday Discussion Thread -- Week 4

[Norv Zimmer]

Hell yah!

[VikingFan50]

Who get's the ball at the start of the Second Half? I didn't see the Kickoff.

[dead_poet]

Who get's the ball at the start of the Second Half? I didn't see the Kickoff.

Denver

[soflavike]

Who get's the ball at the start of the Second Half? I didn't see the Kickoff.

Broncos.

[dead_poet]

@Andrew_Krammer: Bridgewater to Mike Wallace in 2015:
18 of 22, 204 yards, TD

[PurpleKoolaid]

I mean one of those really tall guys who can go get a jump ball like the one Manning threw to him a few minutes ago. We used to have this Randy Moss guy that was pretty good at it.

CP could be that guy. Has to step up fast though cause Diggs and Wallace are really going after it.

[akvikingsfan]

Who would have thought that Teddy would be out playing Peyton? And that the Denver backs would out play ours?

[Hunter Morrow]

Who get's the ball at the start of the Second Half? I didn't see the Kickoff.

Denver gets it, they totally shut us down on our first possession.

[mossbutt]

I believe teddy's begun chewing on the guts of 3 day old roadkill thats been stewing in the heat of the desert

[Hunter Morrow]

I believe teddy's begun chewing on the guts of 3 day old roadkill thats been stewing in the heat of the desert

I am taking that as good?

[S197]

I don't know the TOP but Denvers defense has been on the field a while, bodes well if we can keep it close and ground and pound a little.

[Rieux]

Broncos.

I suspect you're right—but Burkhardt, the Fox play-by-play guy, claimed earlier that Denver had won the toss and had elected to kick. If that were true, the Vikings will receive in the second half as well.

Almost certainly Denver actually deferred after winning the opening toss, which means they will indeed get the ball to begin the second half—but then it would appear that Burkhardt didn't know what he was talking about.

[S197]

Cool stat for the UCLA duo, Kendricks first sack and Barrs first interception both on Peyton Manning.

[S197]

Thomas is clearly Mannings safety blanket (7 of his 9 completions). Maybe we should have Rhodes shadow him with Smith over top until Denver proves they can move the ball consistently any other way.

[Rieux]

Have you ever seen anyone make a wide open catch look more difficult than Wallace? Our receivers scare me sometimes.

Yeah—in the earlier game today in Buffalo, when OB3 made another spectacular one-handed catch for the Giants but landed out of bounds, the analyst said something about "Good thing there aren't any style points in the NFL, because then we'd have to give him that one." Wallace's TD was basically the opposite. Easy pass, no defensive pressure, zero style points... but, hell, he caught it.