Week 1 - Vikings @ Bengals Support Group

This is true the next QB is literally walking into the lion's den. Zero margin for error with this group.

What other people would do, and what I would do are not one and the same.

I have stated Cousins played well in losses. I have stated he played poorly in wins. Overall though, I don't believe he is a quarterback that can be counted on to be a consistent winner against good teams. The box gets loaded for Cook, and Cousins can still not push the ball down the field, and he was throwing from a relatively clean pocket. Cousins looks for open players rather than anticipating open players or throwing in advance of players to get the ball on their hands.

Sad but true. It's the Vikings way...

Joe Mixon lead all RBs running. I thought we was hell bent on changing that? Zim Mr. Throw everybody under the bus had just stated all the guys he had last year on the DL sucked right? It's always somebody else fault but his own. He suppose to have all these new ideas yet I see the same declining defense.

No awareness and no speed. While I said the offense still needed work. They rested their work on that side Thinking a few rooks alone with fix our OL. News flash when your OL is that sorry yes draft OL but don't stop there. Also bring in some vet talent. No though last year non playoffs team guaranteed this year offense was already fixed🤷🏾‍♂️

We think to slowly to be good consistently year after year. FTR Bustfairy still sucks but it's others fault yeah right, a guy who can't anchor 🤷🏾‍♂️ Shout out to Michael Pierce the Juggernaut he did his thang. Oh and preseason preparation matters and getting guys ready starts there. We came out flat.

Rauscher has a challenge to get his O-line playing better. Bradbury is such a disappointment. He must have gotten stronger over the past two years. He is athletic, so why can't he pass protect better? What is wrong with his technique? How many games does Bradbury get with a PFF rating in the 30s before he gets benched?

Regarding the run game on Defense, even Hunter made mistakes. How much of their Run Defense struggles yesterday are related to not playing games together? When guys don't play their gap, the run D breaks down. And when they miss tackles, the run D breaks down. They seemed to have plenty of both yesterday.

Fact: there were at bare minimum 3 times where Kirk had a clean pocket, time, and went through his reads to slow and threw behind an open Receiver.

Fact: there were at least 2 telegraphed blitzes where he could clearly see what was coming and go to a hot read. He ate the ball instead.

Fact: his average depth per target through 3 Quarters was 6 yards. The average depth for even Game Mangers is typically 7 yards.

How does every thread turn into Kirk or Zim? I am a Vikings fan obviously and don't care if both are gone at the end of the year, but really everything bad is on them all the time?
Really?....I mean really? Just those two can be the only two blamed in the ultimate team sport? Really?