Preseason, Week 3: VIKINGS (1-1) vs Chargers (2-0)

[Freakout]

[SteelKing728]

Opinions have swayed rapidly going from weeks 1 to 2, and 2 to 3.

It's gone from "Player looks really bad tonight. Where is the progression?", to "This player should be cut/traded/switch positions", to "Wow, this player played great. I can see him starting by week x".

you see where this is going? We are putting too much emphasis on the preseason. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: The Preseason is like a dirty mirror: It gives you some of the picture, you get an idea of whats going on, but we don't know everything we need to know. There are still plenty of questions left unanswered.

So with that in mind, lets be patient, and not jump to conclusions.
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Thanks Jamison on that avi.

2013 Adopt a Minnesota Viking - Jared Allen - DE - #69

[The Gnat]

Thoughts on what I saw of the game:

The defense looked good, albeit against a back-up team, and Harrison Smith looks like he can be an NFL starting safety no problem. There will be rookie hiccups, but he's looked better then the Vikings norm back there.

Brinkley finally played a solid game.

Ponder took a step back, and the whole offense looked out of sync, but Ponder did have a few nice passes in there and wasn't a complete trainwreck.

Webb actually looked half way decent from what I saw, which is an improvement from the previous two games, where I would have argued with how he was playing Rosenfels should have been #2 over him.

Special teams shouldn't be a ton of concern when kicking or punting.

Finally: This is going to be a fairly long season for Vikings fans, there are going to be lots of ups and downs, we've even seen that this preseason, the offense with Ponder looked great week two of the preseason, and fairly poor this past week with hints of good. That's probably what this season is going to be like, Ponder will light up some teams with an efficient game, and other games he'll look so-so at best and we'll need Peterson to step up or the defense. But that is expected for any young QB, and I think we'll see Ponder progress more than regress this season.
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[french t0ast]

I missed the game, how did Kalil perform? Did he give up any sacks?
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[vikingsrule]

[Klomp]

In everyone's overreaction about how terrible they thought we played this week, they are forgetting one thing: We also played without two key players (Simpson, Carlson) with another playing only a couple series (Gerhart). That's not even including Peterson, who is likely to play week 1.

To expect the offense to run smoothly without them is ludicrous, and forecasting the season based on that game is even more so.

We will be fine.
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2013 Adopt-a-Viking: FB Jerome Felton -

[milanb]

[vike daddy]

i think when backups play backups, no one looks good.
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