Prediction thread – Minnesota Vikings – out of doors

[lyser]

Zooey wrote:

zn wrote:

I don’t think that game will “tell us” anything. If they win, they could still lose against top teams like the Bengals. If they lose, they could still upset a top team like the Bengals.

I agree with that.

What a win probably WOULD tell us, though, is that the Rams are playing with more consistency.

But…I tell ya…Foles got about 125 yards passing against one of the crappier teams (plus 66 yards on a 0 yard pass to Austin).

The Rams have a couple of playmakers (Austin, Gurley), an emerging OL, and nothing else. Britt, Bailey, and Quick combined for 1 reception for 5 yards. And Cook made monthly guest appearance. I don’t understand it, but this offense is going to the end of the Rams season sooner or later.

????? This is the game that the Vikes look back on and…??????

[NERam]

Close game.

16-13 Rams

[Zooey]

lyser wrote:

????? This is the game that the Vikes look back on and…??????

I thought it was too obvious to state.

This is the game that the Vikings look back on and wonder why they even got out of bed in the morning.

[nittany ram]

DA Rams.

If Ditka coaches…da Rams 767, Vikings -13

Without Ditka…Rams 24, Vikings 20

And Ditka most likely isn’t coaching, so I’m going with latter.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by nittany ram.

[lyser]

Zooey wrote:

lyser wrote:

????? This is the game that the Vikes look back on and…??????

I thought it was too obvious to state.

This is the game that the Vikings look back on and wonder why they even got out of bed in the morning.

Indeed. Hope u r rite

[joemad]

long time Rams fans have a bad taste of the Ram playoff loses to the Vikings during the 70’s, but Ram fans rarely mention this Viking playoff game.

December 26, 1988

Vikings safety Joey Browner recorded two interceptions in the first quarter to set up a two touchdown lead that the Rams could never recover from. Browner also finished the game with 7 tackles, had the Vikings only sack of the day, and recovered a Rams onside kick attempt to seal the win

Browner’s first interception, on 3rd and 17 from the Vikings 32, led to a Minnesota 73-yard drive that featured Wade Wilson’s 34-yard completion to reserve receiver Jim Gustafso and was capped by running back Alfred Anderson’s 7-yard rushing touchdown. Then on the first play of the Rams next drive, Browner intercepted another pass from Jim Everett and returned it 14 yards to the Los Angeles 17-yard line, where Allen Rice took it in for a touchdown on the next play.

In the second quarter, the Rams had three chances to score, but only managed to get any points once. First, Mike Lansford missed a 41-yard field attempt (later matched by a 44-yard miss by Minnesota’s Chuck Nelson). Then they drove to a 3rd and 1 on the Vikings 30 and were stopped for no gain on consecutive running plays. But just before halftime, Everett led the team 70 yards to cut the lead in half at 14-7 with his 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Damone Johnson.

Minnesota took the second half kickoff and moved the ball all the way to the end zone with a 1-yard touchdown run by Anderson, going back up by two touchdowns at 21-7. The Rams countered with a 33-yard field goal from Lansford, but in the fourth quarter, Wilson completed a 44-yard pass to Anthony Carter on the LA 5-yard line. On the next play, he threw a touchdown pass to tight end Carl Hilton, giving the team a 28-10 lead and essentially putting the game out of reach. The Rams managed one more touchdown with 1:11 left in the game on Everett’s 11-yard throw to tight end Pete Holohan, but Browner recovered their onside kick attempt and the Vikings ran out the rest of the clock.

Wilson finished the game with 253 passing yards and a touchdown, while Carter caught 4 passes for 102 yards. Rams linebacker Kevin Greene had 3 sacks.

[nittany ram]

joemad wrote:

long time Rams fans have a bad taste of the Ram playoff loses to the Vikings during the 70’s, but Ram fans rarely mention this Viking playoff game.

December 26, 1988

Vikings safety Joey Browner recorded two interceptions in the first quarter to set up a two touchdown lead that the Rams could never recover from. Browner also finished the game with 7 tackles, had the Vikings only sack of the day, and recovered a Rams onside kick attempt to seal the win

Browner’s first interception, on 3rd and 17 from the Vikings 32, led to a Minnesota 73-yard drive that featured Wade Wilson’s 34-yard completion to reserve receiver Jim Gustafso and was capped by running back Alfred Anderson’s 7-yard rushing touchdown. Then on the first play of the Rams next drive, Browner intercepted another pass from Jim Everett and returned it 14 yards to the Los Angeles 17-yard line, where Allen Rice took it in for a touchdown on the next play.

In the second quarter, the Rams had three chances to score, but only managed to get any points once. First, Mike Lansford missed a 41-yard field attempt (later matched by a 44-yard miss by Minnesota’s Chuck Nelson). Then they drove to a 3rd and 1 on the Vikings 30 and were stopped for no gain on consecutive running plays. But just before halftime, Everett led the team 70 yards to cut the lead in half at 14-7 with his 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Damone Johnson.

Minnesota took the second half kickoff and moved the ball all the way to the end zone with a 1-yard touchdown run by Anderson, going back up by two touchdowns at 21-7. The Rams countered with a 33-yard field goal from Lansford, but in the fourth quarter, Wilson completed a 44-yard pass to Anthony Carter on the LA 5-yard line. On the next play, he threw a touchdown pass to tight end Carl Hilton, giving the team a 28-10 lead and essentially putting the game out of reach. The Rams managed one more touchdown with 1:11 left in the game on Everett’s 11-yard throw to tight end Pete Holohan, but Browner recovered their onside kick attempt and the Vikings ran out the rest of the clock.

Wilson finished the game with 253 passing yards and a touchdown, while Carter caught 4 passes for 102 yards. Rams linebacker Kevin Greene had 3 sacks.

That loss didn’t bother me so much because the Rams had rebounded to 10-6 after going 6-9 in the previous strike-shortened season. Plus it looked like the Rams *finally* had an elite passer and a solid defense under Fritz Shurmer. The future looked bright and I was looking forward to all the playoff victories to come.

Sigh…

[Zooey]

nittany ram wrote:

That loss didn’t bother me so much because the Rams had rebounded to 10-6 after going 6-9 in the previous strike-shortened season. Plus it looked like the Rams *finally* had an elite passer and a solid defense under Fritz Shurmer. The future looked bright and I was looking forward to all the playoff victories to come.

Sigh…

Me, too. The loss did not sit well with me, especially since it came from the Vikings, but the expectations were MUCH higher in the 70s, and there was always an element of terrible mischance that made the losses feel like the victory was stolen from the Rams in the 70s.

Plus I was younger, and still believed in the power of prayer. So the Vikings not only stole the games, they stole my belief in a benevolent deity, and set me on the pathway to reckless despair that you see me on today.

[wv]

Zooey wrote:

The loss did not sit well with me, especially since it came from the Vikings….

Plus I was younger, and still believed in the power of prayer. So the Vikings not only stole the games, they stole my belief in a benevolent deity, and set me on the pathway to reckless despair that you see me on today.

So your blaming Jesus for the playoff
losses to the Vikings?

Its a well-known fact Jesus is a Raider fan,
so I dont think he’d even play dice
with a Viking-Ram game.

w
v

[Zooey]

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

The loss did not sit well with me, especially since it came from the Vikings….

Plus I was younger, and still believed in the power of prayer. So the Vikings not only stole the games, they stole my belief in a benevolent deity, and set me on the pathway to reckless despair that you see me on today.

So your blaming Jesus for the playoff
losses to the Vikings?

Its a well-known fact Jesus is a Raider fan,
so I dont think he’d even play dice
with a Viking-Ram game.

w
v

That is such BS. You must have been raised a Catholic.

Listen, if God is all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful, he has to be a Rams fan. Therefore I have run circles around you logically.

[Eternal Ramnation]

I’ve been watching all the Vikings games reading their boards and some stuff that sticks out. Vikes fans in general regard both defenses equal,giving the DL some respect and with it a near constant “their secondary doesn’t scare me’ and generally claiming superiority in that area. I have no idea why, other than they have not seen a Rams game this season I mean we did pick off Rodgers twice ,Palmer ,Wilson etc. our cb’s have 4 picks theirs have a big fat goose egg and it’s not like they’ve played Rodgers at home either. They don’t seem to understand or maybe it’s accept that red zone defense and points allowed are different stats. The one thing they do have is they can come back because they’ve had to for the last 3 games at least. Of course this is just fans talking so it all means very little.My feeling is these fans have a new understanding of tough defense after this game. https://vimeo.com/10815350

[canadaram]

According to the most recent forecast that I looked at they’re expecting a high of 14 degrees Celsius and a low of 6 degrees Celsius on game day in Minneapolis. The game takes place on the 8th day of the 11th month of the year. The logical thing to do is to find the sum of the high temperature and the day of the month, and then find the sum of the low temperature and the 11th month of the year, 14+8=22 and 6+11=17.

The Rams defense racks up 11 safeties in a 22-17 win.

[Eternal Ramnation]

canadaram wrote:

According to the most recent forecast that I looked at they’re expecting a high of 14 degrees Celsius and a low of 6 degrees Celsius on game day in Minneapolis. The game takes place on the 8th day of the 11th month of the year. The logical thing to do is to find the sum of the high temperature and the day of the month, and then find the sum of the low temperature and the 11th month of the year, 14+8=22 and 6+11=17.

The Rams defense racks up 11 safeties in a 22-17 win.

In non-Canookian the forcast is 57 and sunny S wind 10-20mph. I’m a couple miles from their practice facility so 65-52 in the USA translation I think the 11 safeties will still work.

[Zooey]

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I’ve been watching all the Vikings games reading their boards and some stuff that sticks out. Vikes fans in general regard both defenses equal,giving the DL some respect and with it a near constant “their secondary doesn’t scare me’ and generally claiming superiority in that area. I have no idea why, other than they have not seen a Rams game this season I mean we did pick off Rodgers twice ,Palmer ,Wilson etc. our cb’s have 4 picks theirs have a big fat goose egg and it’s not like they’ve played Rodgers at home either. They don’t seem to understand or maybe it’s accept that red zone defense and points allowed are different stats. The one thing they do have is they can come back because they’ve had to for the last 3 games at least. Of course this is just fans talking so it all means very little.My feeling is these fans have a new understanding of tough defense after this game. https://vimeo.com/10815350

Vikings fans, in my experience, are not the most well-informed and objective fans one finds on the net. I have not seen the Vikings play in a long time, so I am not familiar with them, but they have played are far softer schedule than the Rams have. One would think – if the defenses were equal – that the Vikings would be ranked significantly higher statistically than the Rams.

None of that means much, though. Let’s play ball.

[zn]

If this game gets down to who has the better OL right now, though…long day for the Rams.

When was the last time the Rams won 3 in a row? 2012. So at least it was within living memory.

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[Eternal Ramnation]

zn wrote:

If this game gets down to who has the better OL right now, though…long day for the Rams.

When was the last time the Rams won 3 in a row? 2012. So at least it was within living memory.

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I don’t know ZN, Loadholt is out for the season C Sullivan had a setback after back surgery this is far from the OL that blew the Rams 2yds of the LOS last year. Kalil is doing better this year but Berger Fusco Clemmings that interior is pretty soft these days.

[zn]

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I don’t know ZN, Loadholt is out for the season C Sullivan had a setback after back surgery this is far from the OL that blew the Rams 2yds of the LOS last year. Kalil is doing better this year but Berger Fusco Clemmings that interior is pretty soft these days.

That’s fair. You know them better than I do by far.

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[wv]

zn wrote:

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I don’t know ZN, Loadholt is out for the season C Sullivan had a setback after back surgery this is far from the OL that blew the Rams 2yds of the LOS last year. Kalil is doing better this year but Berger Fusco Clemmings that interior is pretty soft these days.

That’s fair. You know them better than I do by far.

So you are saying he’s a Viking fan. I see.

We will have to open up another front,
in the board-war. Raider fans AND Viking fans, now.

w
v

[rfl]

Injuries might be a problem. If Quinn is out or limited, that will really reduce our effectiveness against run and pass. And our OL can’t afford to lose a rookie who’s been settling in at RT.

By virtue of the absurd ...

[Eternal Ramnation]

rfl wrote:

Injuries might be a problem. If Quinn is out or limited, that will really reduce our effectiveness against run and pass. And our OL can’t afford to lose a rookie who’s been settling in at RT.

Another eerie similarity, injuries the vikes DT Floyd is out LB Kendricks out LB Barr is dinged and questionable. I think we’ll be okay at DE considering the Rams depth on the DL but if Big Rob can’t go a RT I agree that’s a problem.

[Eternal Ramnation]

wv wrote:

zn wrote:

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I don’t know ZN, Loadholt is out for the season C Sullivan had a setback after back surgery this is far from the OL that blew the Rams 2yds of the LOS last year. Kalil is doing better this year but Berger Fusco Clemmings that interior is pretty soft these days.

That’s fair. You know them better than I do by far.

So you are saying he’s a Viking fan. I see.

We will have to open up another front,
in the board-war. Raider fans AND Viking fans, now.

w
v

I see right through this clever ruse WV. You’re just trying to distract attention away from your Brady sniffing being the real cause of deflate gate.

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