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    Ice House
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    Are the Vikings THAT BAD?????

    I mean c'mon guys .... they hung in there on the road vs San Diego who some people are picking to beat New England this week....


    Is McNabb that bad???????? REALLY????


    Remember when Minnesota used to be an automatic win when playing at home?


    The Vikings defense is still good right?

    what am I missing here? Vikings -3 looks solid

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    Minny did not have the ball much
    SD controlled the game

    Hard to tell off that game how Mcnaab looks

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    Yeah i admit I didn't follow the Redskins last year.... I watch a lot of NFL football and didn't watch a single Redskins game.

    McNabb used to be good. But the main thing I've always thought that made the Vikings good is their defense , home field advantage, and AP

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    McNabb looked horrible
    Vikings defense has taken a big step down
    If Bucs can contain Peterson they win

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice House View Post
    I mean c'mon guys .... they hung in there on the road vs San Diego who some people are picking to beat New England this week....


    Is McNabb that bad???????? REALLY????


    Remember when Minnesota used to be an automatic win when playing at home?


    The Vikings defense is still good right?

    what am I missing here? Vikings -3 looks solid
    Take away the opening kickoff return and they were really bad, SD lost their field goal kicker on the first play of the game else SD would have had more points.

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    mcnabb is a mediocre quarterback, not to mention that he is in a new setting, no matter what you say it is gonna take at least a few games for the offense to feel comfortable

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    McNubb is the problem. They need to develop a QB for long term benefits

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    I guess you forget mcnabb's history against that tampa 2 defense. No matter who is on that defense he has trouble making reads and usually throws a couple back breaking picks. Bucs D has his number. The bucs overachieved last season but they are better than the vikings. No more Williams wall (Phat Pat is gonna hang it up and kevin is suspended 1 more game) either nobody seems to talk about that but it's a huge deal.

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    Yeah I like Bucs +3, but sometimes it is hard betting against AP. Peterson is easily the best non-QB player in the NFL. I don't see Raheem Morris' team going 0-2.

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    Mcnabb now adays equals terrible!

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    ok so i won't take vikings -3

    next game ....

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    I live in MN, and it's really hard to predict what kind of team this is right now. With S.D. spotting us 7 pts right away last week and their K being hurt we should have been able to steal the game. I guess I'm not betting on them until I see more out of this Offense

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    I remember the days when the Vikings had the best D-Line in football ... they recked havoc on the other teams running game and put pressure on the QB ...

    Is Jarred Allen not good anymore and Antawn Winfield is he really good?

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    by the way watching the vikes last week was just like watching a terrible car accident in slow mo

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    Just so you know the Bucs don't run the Tampa 2 anymore. Raheem Morris says he uses it a few times a game, but not his base defense.


    Quote Originally Posted by letitride87 View Post
    I guess you forget mcnabb's history against that tampa 2 defense. No matter who is on that defense he has trouble making reads and usually throws a couple back breaking picks. Bucs D has his number. The bucs overachieved last season but they are better than the vikings. No more Williams wall (Phat Pat is gonna hang it up and kevin is suspended 1 more game) either nobody seems to talk about that but it's a huge deal.

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    i just wouldn't bet on the Buccaneers in this spot though.... playing on the road.

    I think they are better road teams to choose from

    Texans
    Cowboys
    Packers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice House View Post
    I remember the days when the Vikings had the best D-Line in football ... they recked havoc on the other teams running game and put pressure on the QB ...

    Is Jarred Allen not good anymore and Antawn Winfield is he really good?
    Winfield is slowing down but he is my fav player to watch on that D, watching him blow up people @ only 5'9" is fun and he's fearless. I don't know what Allen's problem is but he is talented, whether or not that will equate to sacks again remains to be seen.

    Someone else mentioned K williams missing, he is a beast, 6'5" and (athletic) 310lbs cannot be replaced easily

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    did williams retire or go to a different team?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice House View Post
    did williams retire or go to a different team?
    kevin is serving his 2 game suspension for the starcaps supplement debacle. pat williams retired/wasn't resigned this year

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    double post

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    vegas thinks these teams are even yet everyone on SBR thinks the opposite.

    What should you do?

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    line is very telling, take tampa plus the points all day long

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    Kind of hard to make a read on Minnesota. They went on the road and got outplayed by the Chargers. That was expected considering the Chargers are a Super Bowl team. Minny took away the Chargers running game but couldn't do anything to stop P Rivers in the passing. I see Minny shutting down the Tampa running game and I doubt Freeman will put up Phillip River numbers. He's a good QB but not that good. Minny should be able to run on Tampa. Tampa's pass defense is horrible but I don't know if Minny is that bad in the passing game where they can't take advantage of the horrible pass defense.

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    I had to role with the Buccaneers ML +135 here.

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    Mcnabb IS that bad...he had the benefit of playing in the same system for years mastered it. Couldn't figure out the redskins offense in his one year there...reportedly calling the wrong formation numerous times throughout the season. Now he is learning another system and is struggling with it as well. You won't hear anything bad about Mcnabb with the way he practices, always positive things coming out of practice but when it comes down to running this new offense on Sunday he fails time and time again.

    Minny is going to be as good as AP makes them, because aside from a few deep passes this year where mcnabb will hit, their pass offense is going to struggle. Defense is solid.

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