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I'm starting to wonder will Mike Hughes ever step up i'm waiting GO VIKINGS

 

Justin Jefferson: I’m just getting started



Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson didn’t match the 175 receiving yards he posted in Week Three, but the first-round pick had another strong performance in Week Four against the Texans.

Jefferson caught four passes for 103 yards and the outcome was better than it was a week ago as the Vikings beat the Texans to earn their first victory of the season. After the 31-23 win was in the books, Jefferson said he’s just scratching the surface of what he can do.

“We didn’t have a preseason or anything before this,” Jefferson said, via Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press. “You could say this is my preseason. I’m just getting started.”

Adam Thielen had eight catches for 114 yards and Dalvin Cook posted 130 yards on 27 carries to create the kind of balanced offensive attack that gives defenses fits.

“To have two receivers go over 100 yards and to have a running back go over 100 yards is crazy,” Jefferson said. “That’s a scary sight.”

Scary for the opposition, but a welcome sight to Vikings fans who were waiting to see their team finally come out on top in 2020.

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Diggs who? Just kidding.

 

Mike Boone is the NFC special teams player of the week



The Vikings got their first win of the season last Sunday and one of the big plays in the early part of the game came after a Britton Colquitt punt.

Texans returner DeAndre Carter fielded the ball and gained about five yards before being hit by Vikings running back Mike Boone. Boone jarred the ball loose and Dan Chisena recovered to give the Vikings the ball back in Houston territory. A field goal that put the Vikings up 10-0 would follow and they would never trail in what turned out to be Bill O’Brien’s final game as the Texans coach.

It was the only tackle of the game for Boone, but the play was big enough to lead the NFL to name him the NFC’s special teams player of the week.

Boone has two other tackles on special teams this season, but has yet to see any offensive snaps.

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I don't understand this what's the point of having Irv Smith jr if your not going to use him I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted out

 

Vikings running back Dalvin Cook left Sunday night’s game with a groin injury, and right now the team doesn’t know how long he’ll be out.

Cook will have an MRI today and it’s unclear whether he’ll play Sunday’s home game against the Falcons, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said.

Cook did play one more snap after leaving with the injury, but that was it.

“He wanted to try to get in there and play again,” Zimmer said, via Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press.

The good news for the Vikings is the offense didn’t miss Cook. Backup Alexander Mattison came in and had 20 carries for 112 yards. Mattison is likely to get plenty of work again this week if Cook can’t go.

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Mike Zimmer on fourth-and-1 decision in loss to Seattle: 'I'm not going to second-guess any of that stuff'

Choices are a fickle friend. We all make thousands a day, most with unseen consequences that map out our days and guide individual Choose Your Own Adventures. Some, however, lead to massive waterfalls of aftereffect that cascade, flooding from one plane of existence into another.

In sports, those big decisions open coaches and players to second-guessing. Whether they should have done A or stuck with trusty column B. Perhaps heeding advice from the analytics squad would be prudent, or maybe, in hindsight clunking the "nerds" on the noggin and sticking with your football gut would have elicited a different outcome.

It's for these decisions that coaches get paid their large salaries.

Sunday night in Seattle, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer found himself in a spot to make such a choice.

At the two-minute warning, leading 26-21, Zimmer's team faced a fourth-and-1 at the Seattle 6-yard-line. Two choices: 1) Kick the field goal and go up eight points, giving Russell Wilson about 117 seconds to possibly drive 75 yards for a touchdown and two-point try; 2) Go for it and either end the game right there by converting or leave 1:57 for Wilson to drive 94 yards for the game-winning TD.

During the two-minute warning, Zimmer made his decision clear to offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak through his headset: "We didn't come here for this. Let's go win it," he said, via the Star-Tribune.

Backup running back Alexander Mattison was stuffed off the right side for no gain. The Seahawks had life, and Wilson drove Seattle down the field, converting two fourth downs to DK Metcalf along the way, for the game-winning score.


Minnesota loses, 27-26, to fall to 1-4.

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It's way past time to turn the page Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman after the season the Vikings got to get rid of the Mike and Rick show

 

If he kicks the chip shot FG you guys would have just had to think about overtime if they managed to get a two point conversion

 

It was sad they let the game just slipped through there fingers it really was amazing how they grabbed defeat out of the mouth of victory

 

Mike Zimmer: Dalvin Cook’s MRI went pretty well

Running back Dalvin Cook‘s condition will be of great interest in Minnesota this week after he hurt his groin in Sunday night’s loss to the Seahawks.

Cook went for an MRI to determine the extent of the injury on Monday and head coach Mike Zimmer gave an update after the test was done.

“It went pretty well so we’ll see how he does this week,” Zimmer said, via Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press.

As we saw with Zimmer calling defensive end Danielle Hunter‘s neck injury a tweak before he landed on injured reserve, the Vikings coach doesn’t always provide every morsel of information concerning the health of players. Wednesday’s practice will provide some more information about his chances of playing against the Falcons in Week Six.

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Seems like the Vikings and Dalvin Cook caught s.break here it's the Alexander Mattison show now,Dalvin Cook take your time and rest...getting any information from Mike Zimmer is like pulling teeth

 

Vikings QB Kirk Cousins: If I keep throwing INTs, 'I won't finish the season'

The last time the Minnesota Vikings started 1-5, Leslie Frazier was fired as head coach in the offseason, and Mike Zimmer took over.

In order to keep history from repeating, quarterback Kirk Cousins, who threw three INTs for the second time this season in a 40-23 loss to the previously winless Atlanta Falcons, knows he must quit turning the ball over.

"The reality is if the pace I'm on in terms of the interceptions, if that were to continue, I won't finish the season," Cousins said, via Courtney Cronin of ESPN. "I won't -- you know what I mean? There's a little bit of, you got to improve. Whether it's them telling me, 'Hey, we gotta improve,' or them pulling me; we got to get better. That's what the rest of the season will be about for me, is trying to protect the football as best I can. Because when you turn the ball over, it really hurts your chances to win. I know that. I just need to improve as we look ahead to the rest of the season."

Sean Mannion is the only other QB currently on the Vikings roster.

Cousin's three-INT day was the fifth time he's thrown three or more interceptions in a game during his career. Two of those instances have come in 2020 (Week 2 at Indianapolis).

Through six games, Cousins already has 10 INTs. Last year he had six total in 15 starts. His career-high is 13 in 2017 with Washington in 16 games. Cousins' current pace would put him at 26.6 interceptions for a full slate.

"I need to correct it," Cousins said. "I need to finish the season with a different story, regarding the interceptions, so that's something I need to improve with the remaining games we have. I don't know that I'd limit it to the interceptions. I think it's just the entire offensive performance. It's just, I need to be better, we need to be better."

Cousins' turnovers wiped away any chance the Vikings had to keep the floundering Falcons from having life. The issues started from the first play from scrimmage, on which Cousins tried to fit a pass to rookie Justin Jefferson, who was surrounded by four defenders. Linebacker Deion Jones dropped into the zone for the relatively easy pick.

"I thought the first one was the worst one, if you will," Cousins said of his three interceptions. "First play of the game, and the coverage was not confusing. It was just a zone drop, and I simply forced the football into coverage, tried to do too much. That's a mistake I may have made in Year 1, but I'm disappointed that I would do that now."

Cousins' rookie mistakes have cost the Vikings big this season. Heading into the bye week, Minnesota and the QB must figure out how to right the ship, or Zimmer's seat will continue to get hotter, and a new coach could be at the helm come January.

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Duh really Capt Kirk where was the fire the one thing that.you have always shown is a lack of leadership,makes you wonder how long will the Wilfs put up with this sh*t show don't know what's going to happen now very low expectations here

 

I heard talk of the Vikings getting a HC can't see it right now after the season ends he's gone,trading Capt Kirk soon as possible is must ASAP he's not a consistent. QB he cannot take.the Vikings to the next level which is elite

 

Rick Spielman: No one thinks the season’s over



The Vikings traded defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to the Ravens on Thursday in a move that netted them a third-round pick a couple of months after they traded a second-rounder to the Jaguars for the pass rusher’s services.

Ngakoue’s departure was followed by the news that defensive end Danielle Hunter will not return this season because of the neck injury that’s kept him out for the first six games. Those two developments and a 1-5 record suggests that the Vikings might turn their attention to rebuilding for 2021 and beyond, but General Manager Rick Spielman said that’s not the case.

Spielman noted the team has three straight division games coming up after the bye and that they’ll find out “pretty quick” if there’s a chance of salvaging the season. He said that remains the priority despite a trade that’s clearly not designed to help the team in the short term.

“No one thinks the season’s over right now . . . You want to win as many games as we can, and that’s going to be our objective for the year. But also, when you have an opportunity to continue to add, with the 15 draft picks, you’re seeing most of them having to play right now,” Spielman said, via Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Spielman referenced Dalvin Cook and others to say that he doesn’t think the team is rebuilding, but that may be a matter of semantics for a losing team playing a lot of rookies while moving to make sure they can add more of them in the 2021 draft.

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Sounds like their throwing in the towel to me

 

What the hell is going on here you trade your best pass rusher Yannick Ngakoue, Fire Rick Spielman ASAP can't take any more of his sh*t it's the same old same old getting Very Tired of this now i.wonder who's next

 

Salvage the season why? In Tricky Ricky we don't trust!

 

Vikings legendary linebacker Matt Blair has passed away at age 70 God Bless his family and RIP

 

Im going to rock his avatar for a while... he was a big Vikings name growing up a Vikings fan as a kid.