Pigskin Baffoons

The Vikings played Dallas today. We don’t often get television coverage out here, but it was instructive.

1. Adrian Peterson is the real deal. Big, strong, fast, elusive.
2. The Vikings defense, Iikewise, is for real. Unless the other team throws the ball. Then it’s “Johnny bar the door...”
3. Troy Aikman said today about Tavaris Jackson, “You won’t win many games completing five passes,” and, “accuracy is important in an NFL quarterback, and I’m not seeing a lot of it.”
4. The Norskies fit the profile of a poorly coached football team. Trying to pick up loose balls rather than covering them (even if it works out), egregious penalties (a “hold” that qualifies as a tackle), inane challenges of on-field calls. It goes on and on.
5. As much as the running game is praised, the real test of that is whether you can do it when you have to, and when they know that you have to, when you can’t – or won’t – throw. The purple’s running game doesn’t meet that standard.
6. Losers do things like have sideline altercations between players and coaches. The Vikequeens are losers, no doubt about it.

Except. well, I have to give them this: They haven’t lost to the Thundering Herd. The Rodents have. North Dakota anything (especially State) for gawd’s sake. Ridiculous. There’s not much of any value in NoDak. Ok, they can play hockey, but when there’s nothing else to do. How does the same AD that hired Tubby Smith hire this bozo running the pigskin program? Don’t you suppose there’s been a reason no one (before the geniuses at the U of M, that is) ever hired ole Brewski as a head coach? I mean the Brew isn’t been the head guy of so much as a Pop Warner team. It’s starting to be quite clear why.