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Is it age? Is it coaching decision making? Is it the decimated d-line? We’ve all got our theories, but it seems clear to me that the players and coaches are not going to be able to fix this issue without a little help from above.
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We’ve all been beating our heads with the same cast-iron pan full of anger and regret all season, calling for Mike Zimmer to address the team’s shortcomings, and, while I think he’s done an admirable job of becoming more aggressive and leaning harder on players who can make things happen (Smith and Eric Kendricks in particular, defensively), there’s still the issue of the defense’s marked decline as the halves-and the game as a whole-wears on. With only 56 minutes of game play, the subtraction would result in a Vikings record of 10-2-1, which would be second only to the Patriots’ hypothetical 11-1-1 tally.
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And though they’ve been a little less historically awful in the final two minutes of the second half, we’ve suffered more than our share of end-of-game defeats this year during those final two minutes plus overtime along the way to our current 6-7 record.īut if you were to just magically erase the last two minutes of the first and second half of each NFL game this season, a wonderful thing would happen. In stark contrast, in the first 28 minutes of games the Vikings have allowed the third-lowest total league wide. That’s the worst mark in the entire NFL in 21 years. Going into the Steelers game, they were averaging 6 points per game allowed in the final two minutes of the first half alone, according to Trumedia. Ball falls harmlessly to the ground, clock stands at 0:00, Vikings win.
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Who else but Vikings fans feel trauma a week after a win? The last two minutes of that game was like a horror film, right down to the final confrontation by the battle-worn hero(es) in which a touchdown pass goes into the hands of the evil Steeler receiver before Harrison Ford-er, Smith-finally summons the last of his might to thwart the blow with a mighty jab of his own. I’m still feeling the after-effects of the Vikings win against Pittsburgh.
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If you’re not, well, you can read on but you wouldn’t really understand unless you had sat through the previous 13 Viking games here in 2021 and felt firsthand your favorite team toying with your inner psyche. If you’re scratching your head at that statement–why in the world would the NFL want a 56-minute game, for goodness sake?-please hear me out if you’re a Minnesota Vikings fan. There are, for reasons I will detail momentarily, four minutes too many in the current 60-minute format of National Football League gameplay. It’s beginning to look like decisive action from the league is needed to address the issue. I’m here today to tell you that there’s a problem going on in the National Football League, and it disproportionately hinders our Minnesota Vikings. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)