Vikings OL chickens came home to roost last night. Show me a worse starting tackle than TJ Clemmings. People will be eager to put this all on Bradford as that fits their old notions of him as a player, but he couldn’t have done much more in this one. He was getting killed, and for some reason Norv Turner used the bye week to re-implement a load of slow developing pass plays that require good blocking. ctrl-alt-del coaching. Hopefully they go back to the quick passes next week. I can’t figure out why McKinnon isn’t more involved in the passing game. He’s amazing in space.
The Vikings this year have been built on amazing defence, great special teams, and clean, efficient QB play. Without two out of three of those things it was going to be difficult to win. Although, if Sendejo had got the TD after that INT it could have been so different. And that kick-off return. Goodness.
Anyway, they’re 5-1 and I back the coaching staff to learn from this one. Don’t know where they’re going to find some better OTs though.