Last week: 11 (+1)

Record: 5-2

The Vikings’ game last week was pretty boring, but since they’re playing tomorrow night in this week’s Thursday Night game, I’d like to take this opportunity to rant about Thursday Night Football. I hate it. One, it screws up my whole schedule. I like football and writing about football because I can spend the whole week preparing for one day. This whole Thursday thing just screws with everything.

Two, it’s unsafe and Roger Goodell is a huge hypocrite. Players simply can’t be expected to play on 3 days rest like that. The players recently overwhelmingly voted against it and that reason probably had a lot to do with it, but Goodell is intent on squeezing every cent of out of players no matter the cost, whether it’s Thursday Night Football (which increases the NFL’s revenue by 1 billion yearly) or an 18 game schedule. That is unless, you know, they start suing him for concussions and then he has to start pretending he gives a damn. This is the problem with having someone who never played professional football running the show.

Three, it’s crappy football. This is for two reasons. One, on short weeks teams are totally unprepared. The under hits about 60% of the time on Thursday Nights and this year scoring is down 8 points per game on Thursday Nights. If it’s a good matchup, it cheats us out of the opportunity to watch them at 100%. If it’s a bad matchup, it’s even worse and no one wants to see that on National TV anyway. More often than not, it’s the latter because of the NFL’s new “everyone gets a national televised game” thing, which is also ridiculous. If you want a nationally televised game, don’t suck, and if you suck, chances are being on national television for everyone to laugh at is not what you want.

Studs

RB Adrian Peterson: Rushed for 153 yards (104 after contact) and a touchdown on 23 carries, 5 broken tackles, allowed 1 sack on 5 pass block snaps, 2 catches for 6 yards on 4 attempts, 1 drop, 1 interception when thrown to

LT Matt Kalil: Did not allow a pressure on 25 pass block snaps, run blocked for 40 yards on 6 attempts

CB Chris Cook: Allowed 2 catches for 20 yards on 3 attempts, 1 solo tackle, 1 assist

RE Jared Allen: 2 sacks, 1 quarterback hit, and 4 quarterback hurries on 39 pass rush snaps, 1 penalty, 2 solo tackles, 1 assist, 3 stops, 1 missed tackle

LE Brian Robison: 3 sacks, 1 quarterback hit, and 6 quarterback hurries on 37 pass rush snaps, 4 solo tackles, 5 stops

CB Antoine Winfield: 1 sack on 1 blitz, 10 solo tackles, 7 stops, 1 missed tackle, allowed 9 catches for 90 yards on 11 attempts

Duds

QB Christian Ponder: 8 of 17 for 58 yards, 1 touchdown, and 2 interceptions, 2 drops, 1 throw away, 45.8 adjusted QB rating, pressured on 10 of 21 drop backs (3 sacks, 1 scramble, 1 of 6, 1 throw away, 2 interceptions)

LOLB Chad Greenway: Allowed 7 catches for 92 yards on 7 attempts, 4 solo tackles, 3 stops, 3 missed tackles

MLB Jasper Brinkley: Allowed 3 catches for 19 yards on 3 attempts, 5 solo tackles, 2 assists, 4 stops, 5 missed tackles

ROLB Erin Henderson: 1 solo tackle, 1 stop, 1 missed tackle, allowed 2 catches for 29 yards on 4 attempts, 1 pass deflection

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