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Vikes vs Bills
Just a few thoughts about the upcoming battle between the winless Vikes and the winless Bills.
1) Don't expect a repeat of the game TH had against the Jets. The Jets from what I saw, were overpursuing, and getting trapped in a lot of stuns and blitzes. While the Bills O-line had a great day, the Jets just weren't getting good run support from their DBs, and their DL schemes were usually putting them out of position. The Vikes (from what I saw last Sunday) were able to bottle up AT with an aggressive 8 men in the box approach, as they clearly were not intimidated by Jim Miller & co. In the end that aggression would be their undoing as M.Booker (as my fantasy team learned to its sorrow) cleaned up against the Vikes exposed secondary.
2) Because of the Vikes aggressive D plan, they were stung often by the passing game... an occurrence which should be repeated against the Bills as their pass rush was totaly useless, and their DBs were too slow to effectively stop the Chicago passing attack. Booker is a good WR, but he doesn't have the talent of either Moulds or Price. These thing should all conspire (unless the Vikes play us in a nickel D all game, in which case Henry should repeat his jets performance) to give our WR and Bledsoe career games.
3) In spite of our D's bottom line excellence against the Jets I think it actually looked better than it was. Because the Jets had the Ball for such a small period of time, the overall offensive numbers were unimpressive. However, if you look at the avg yards per play, you'll see the Jets moved the ball BETTER than the Bills against the Jets D (5.1y/play Bills vs 5.7y/play Jets).
4) The Vikes had some success against the Chicago D, making me a little bit nervous about our chances, as our pass D, was very vanilla against the Jets. If your going to blitz on every down you'd better hold up the opposing receivers in some bump and run coverage's, not give them a 10 yard cushion to run a quick slant or out on the hot read. Without a change in the DB play calling, I fear Culpepper will have a monster day... Giving us quite the shootout to watch.
5) In the end I think the Bills can look forward to a close game, which will be decided in the last 2min, I pick the Bills to win over the Vikes, 32-31.
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1) Don't expect a repeat of the game TH had against the Jets. The Jets from what I saw, were overpursuing, and getting trapped in a lot of stuns and blitzes. While the Bills O-line had a great day, the Jets just weren't getting good run support from their DBs, and their DL schemes were usually putting them out of position. The Vikes (from what I saw last Sunday) were able to bottle up AT with an aggressive 8 men in the box approach, as they clearly were not intimidated by Jim Miller & co. In the end that aggression would be their undoing as M.Booker (as my fantasy team learned to its sorrow) cleaned up against the Vikes exposed secondary.
2) Because of the Vikes aggressive D plan, they were stung often by the passing game... an occurrence which should be repeated against the Bills as their pass rush was totaly useless, and their DBs were too slow to effectively stop the Chicago passing attack. Booker is a good WR, but he doesn't have the talent of either Moulds or Price. These thing should all conspire (unless the Vikes play us in a nickel D all game, in which case Henry should repeat his jets performance) to give our WR and Bledsoe career games.
3) In spite of our D's bottom line excellence against the Jets I think it actually looked better than it was. Because the Jets had the Ball for such a small period of time, the overall offensive numbers were unimpressive. However, if you look at the avg yards per play, you'll see the Jets moved the ball BETTER than the Bills against the Jets D (5.1y/play Bills vs 5.7y/play Jets).
4) The Vikes had some success against the Chicago D, making me a little bit nervous about our chances, as our pass D, was very vanilla against the Jets. If your going to blitz on every down you'd better hold up the opposing receivers in some bump and run coverage's, not give them a 10 yard cushion to run a quick slant or out on the hot read. Without a change in the DB play calling, I fear Culpepper will have a monster day... Giving us quite the shootout to watch.
5) In the end I think the Bills can look forward to a close game, which will be decided in the last 2min, I pick the Bills to win over the Vikes, 32-31.
:pow:
:pow: :pow:
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