Nincompoop of the week

this trend of downplaying wins is a little odd.

This isn't 2016 and certainly not 2022

Darnold gets my vote.

KOC can't throw the ball for him.

This trend of ignoring all the glaring problems that are going to keep this team from winning anything meaningful just because they squeaked out a W against an inferior team, is also a little odd. Changes clearly need to be made.

Can I borrow that crystal ball of yours? The next powerball drawing is tomorrow night.

But while we're on the subject of 2016, someone let me know. When the Vikings were 5-0 that year, did you know they were fraudulent? If so, what happened during those 5 wins to make you believe it wasn't sustainable? And why can't that same logic be applied to this 5-0 start? If you didn't know the 2016 team was fraudulent after the 5-0 start, then how can you say 2024 isn't like 2016?

Other Teama use Quick Game. The Jets spent 75% of the game in it. Kevin used it here and there throughout this season. Sometimes for chunks of a Drive. Same with running the Hurry Up.

After Minnesota went up 28-0, in part because they had success with Quick Game, O'Connell decided he's the next coming of Mike Martz orchestrating the Greatest Show on Turf.

Uncle , Danchat , WRs are capable of running shorter routes, right? It doesn't have to be Jones or Hockenson. Powell has done it. Sherfield has done it. Jefferson, Addison and Nailor have all done it.

Where are the Quick Slants? There were against both the 9ers and the Texans. Where are the TE Chip & Releases? Passes to the RB leaking out of the backfield? TE Shallow Crossers? Quick Outs like Addison had for 5 yards in the 2nd Half?

But most of all, why not try running it twice on 3rd and Short?

Dialing up chunk throws over and over again in short yardage situations isn't smart. It's predictable. Because he does it a ton. He's caught exactly zero Defensive Coordinators with their pants down. The times it has worked is solely because Jefferson is the best Receiver of this generation.

Why Sam Darnold is on his 4th Team was on full display today. I never said he wasn't capable of playing good football. He's INCONSISTENT. Sometimes within the same game. Sometimes going from one good one to one bad one. Today was bad. But the playcalling did him zero favors.

The playcalling also did the IOL zero favors. Asking them to hold up for over 3 seconds while Darnold tries to figure out which guy 10+ yards down the field is actually open against one of the best Secondaries in the League is bad coaching. I will say it again. Bad Coaching. Especially when your bell cow back goes out.

For 3 1/2 games I saw genuine improvement from Kevin William O'Connell. He had diversified the Offense. Revitalized the Running Game. Resurrected the Screen Game. The only recurring issue was getting the plays in late.

The last 6 Quarters Mr. Hyde has returned. Gets in Pressers and refuses to admit he's falling back into old behaviors. Unwilling to take what the Defense is giving him regardless of the situation. Quick to abandon plays once they get stopped a few times.

Just predictable. Without the QB to make it happen. KOC made improvements in the offseason. Can he self-diagnose that he's sliding back to his old ways on the fly? My gut says no. I think he's just too stubborn. We'll find out against Detroit.

I know there are plenty of posters who only post negative things like 90% of the time. And it's tiring reading them.

But when did this become a place where offering critiques after a victory was something worthy of complaining about? Superficial sunshine pumping was the forte of a different site that several here left long ago.

It's not OK to worry that a Team nearly blew a 4 score lead two weeks ago followed by nearly blowing a 3 score lead? By doing virtually the exact same thing both times?

Do you actually believe the Vikings will have multiple score leads the entire rest of the season? Do you not care that there are troubling signs that, if not corrected, could legitimately hurt Minnesota’s chances of making a deep run?

It is Darnold. Contrary to what some believe, on any given play there are as many as 5 routes being run, not just the one the QB throws too.

So all of those deep, off target shots that Darnold was taking, there were multiple other options he could have taken, including just tucking and running if nothing was there.

He had a bad game and hopefully this is the worst version of Sam Darnold we see for the rest of the year.