64.38

[Funkytown]

Was that figure including your bail money?

I actually dropped a fair amount of money earlier this year to get tickets to the Lions game (3 rows from the field on the Vikings side) for the last game at the Metrodome. I'm guessing if I'd have been patient, I probably could have gotten them for about 1/3 the price I paid for them. Sorry it was a crappy game for you.

Jail. Never had to be bailed out of jail.

Thankfully I was able to sit there and laugh it off. I was pouting for the rest of the night, but I lived. I still had fun. Believe it or not, I still love the guys just the same. Those scrubs could lose every game for 5 seasons and I'd still go in hopes to see them win. It was a really stressful game, but parts of it were fun. I hate losing, but I suppose it'll make me appreciate winning more. Man, I just hope we get our crap together and skank out a win vs. the Packers by some miracle, and I really, really, REALLY want us to win our last game in the Dome. At this rate, it'll only be half full. I'll just come down and sit by you!

[Reignman]

The stupid thing is that if they spread the field and run Ponder up the gut in Chicago on 2nd and goal....they win the game.

This team is a day late and a dollar short right now.

You make a solid point. For 4 years now I've been wondering why we don't spread out the offense more often when we run AD up the middle. No it's always the jumbo package which only clogs running lanes.

LOL. I can use humor. Heck, when you're a Vikings fan...you have to!

Why do some of us get labeled negative when we do that? I'm not negative I just have a good sense of humor when it comes to our failure. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Reignman]

For a 3 game average of 67.58.

Pretty Solid.

You give him too much credit, his actual season rating is 65.9.

improved from last week
worse than last week

rank CATEGORY stat (league average)
30th in RATING with 65.9 (87.7)
22nd in CMP with 59 (68.3)
22nd in ATT with 100 (110.3)
22nd in PCT with 59.0 (61.9)
21st in YDS with 691 (795.3)
29th in TD with 2 (4.8)
31st in TD% with 2.0 (4.4)
31st in INT with 5 (2.8)
30th in INT% with 5.0 (2.6)
18th in YPA with 6.91 (7.21)
13th in YPC with 11.71 (11.65)

only rated higher than Geno Smith (65.0), Weeden (62.0), and Freeman (59.3)

[psjordan]

only rated higher than Geno Smith (65.0), Weeden (62.0), and Freeman (59.3)

This really should be enough for the "it's not just Ponder" crowd to at least lean towards "it's mostly the fact our QB is not good".

Quarterbacks in the NFL have to be the DIFFERENCE between winning and losing close games. I coach HS lacrosse and my mantra has always been that one-goal games ALWAYS come down to coaching. If you win or lose by one goal, 95% of the time the reason(s) can be put squarely on the coaches. In the NFL, IMO, that mantra boils down to the QB. In close games, they HAVE to be the difference between winning and losing (certainly a case could be made that it is also coaching in the NFL, but in my 50+ years of watching the NFL I've deduced in today's game, it's the QB by a decent margin).

This not to say that when the game is a one-pointer in the 4th that the QB has to be successful in a 99-yard game-winning drive. That's cool of course, but really it boils down to that stalled drive in the 1st qtr, or that missed TD pass that turned into a FG in the 2nd qtr, etc. This does not imply good QB's need to be "Elway-esque". Good QB's get the right amount of points on the board when they are SUPPOSED to.

It is not just happenstance that bad or rookie QB's have horrible QB ratings. EVERY team has problem areas. EVERY team has problems with their OL in one way or another, their WR's, their D, whatever. Not every team has a QB in the bottom five of the rankings. The better QB's make up for this stuff a decent percent of the time. Bad QB's do not.

Of course, you could always opt-out of thinking the QBR is a reflection of good QB play. Your prerogative.