{"id":16961,"date":"2012-09-17T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:26:41","slug":"vikings-amass-penalties-when-they-should-be-amassing-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/vikings-amass-penalties-when-they-should-be-amassing-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings amass penalties when they should be amassing points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>Follow-up post to yesterday&#8217;s Twitter-heavy reaction to another winnable game that the Vikings somehow managed to find a way to lose.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynorseman.com\/2012\/9\/16\/3343520\/stock-market-report-week-2-well-that-was-a-kick-in-the-junk\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Glover at the Daily Norseman<\/a> says this game was like a kick in the junk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, let&#8217;s get some positive momentum going in this column. If we can get a couple of strong sentences put together to start off, then maybe we can&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>TWEEEEEEEEEET!<\/p>\n<p>\/click\/<\/p>\n<p>PERSONAL FOUL, DEFENSE. HIT A DEFENSELESS DANGLING PARTICIPLE. 15 YARDS, STILL FIRST DOWN.<\/p>\n<p>\/click\/<\/p>\n<p>Well damn. Okay, 1st and 25. Let&#8217;s just put a couple of sentences together and see what we get. A well placed pronoun here, a breakaway adverb there, and we&#8217;re in business. There were a lot of good things to take away from today&#8217;s disappointing loss, but at the end of the day, the Viki&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TWEEEEEEEEEEET!<\/p>\n<p>\/click\/<\/p>\n<p>PERSONAL FOUL, DEFENSE. RUNNING INTO THE EDITOR. 15 YARDS, RESULT OF THE PENALTY IS A FIRST DOWN FOR THE OFFENSE.<\/p>\n<p>\/click\/<\/p>\n<p>DAMN IT. How can you expect me to write a good story when I keep getting these stupid penalties?<\/p>\n<p>TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!<\/p>\n<p>\/click\/<\/p>\n<p>WHINING, OFFENSE. 10 YARD PENALTY, LOSS OF DOWN.<\/p>\n<p>\/click\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1500espn.com\/sportswire\/Notebook_Christian_Ponder_efficient_but_Vikings_lack_downfield_threat091612\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Pelissero<\/a> of <em>1500 ESPN<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Jerome Simpson&#8217;s suspension ends on Sept. 24, he figures to get a warm welcome back to the Minnesota Vikings&#8217; lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Ponder didn&#8217;t complete a pass for more than 20 yards in Sunday&#8217;s 23-20 loss to Indianapolis, time and again finding no one open down the field on the relatively few occasions coordinator Bill Musgrave tried to dial up a deep ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think (the Colts&#8217;) objective was to take away the deep ball and take away Percy (Harvin) and (Michael) Jenkins getting downfield,&#8221; Ponder said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we kept running the ball. They were basically in two-deep all game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ponder finished with a highly efficient line &mdash; 27-of-35 passing (77.1%) for 245 yards, two touchdowns and a 114.6 rating. But he also took four sacks, one of them resulting in a fumble, and was forced to scramble three other times as protection broke down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q4uAOiEOgqU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At <em>Bleacher Report<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1336631-minnesota-vikings-going-nowhere-under-leslie-frazier-who-can-they-turn-to-next\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Alisoglu<\/a> is already suggesting that the Vikings will be hiring a new head coach in the near future (and offering names):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minnesota Vikings started out the season with games against two of the worst teams in the NFL. In a telling statement, they went 1-1, which means they are in the argument for the 32nd best team. <\/p>\n<p>A come-from-behind win over the Jacksonville Jaguars wasn&#8217;t exactly a vote of confidence, but at least it was a win. Losing to the Indianapolis Colts stifles whatever enthusiasm Vikings fans might have had based on an undefeated record.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Frazier has been the head coach for 24 games so the team should have started showing some improvement at this point. They haven&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>If Minnesota doesn&#8217;t enjoy an unforeseen turnaround soon, one of the following four fellows may be taking over for him in 2013. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow-up post to yesterday&#8217;s Twitter-heavy reaction to another winnable game that the Vikings somehow managed to find a way to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[781,126,179],"class_list":["post-16961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25587,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions\/25587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}