Rest of National Football League should take notice, respect the Vikings
Vikings cornerback Captain Munnerlyn had a different view.
I can’t be too hard on him because his pass protection was awful, but there were times where he simply held on to the ball for too long and allowed the defense to sack him. While a loss in Super Bowl 50 was a disappointment, the Panthers’ offense looked primed to excel once again in 2016 with the return of wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin from his torn ACL. Newton said. “We were running the football extremely well, keeping them off balance, and then all of a sudden, after the safety is was good riddance”. I’m just going to be honest. I mean really. Can we talk about that for a second? “So we weren’t really anxious about him”. Boone, replaced by Jeremiah Sirles for the rest of the game, declined to comment on his injury. Against Minnesota, he had zero catches and only one target – and that target came late in the game.
Pressure was a huge part of it. Vikings’ DE Everson Griffen won the NFC Defensive Player of the Week award by getting three sacks all on his own. In turn this has caused Newton to have to hold onto the ball longer, and his offensive line hasn’t been able to protect him enough. We’ve played two teams that were in the playoffs past year. Some will say the Panthers were distracted by the civil unrest in Charlotte but the Vikings slapped them around no matter what was going on. That came two years after the Vikings scored on two blocked punts against the Panthers. The other thing that those two teams have in common is average quarterback play.
Cam Newton had 35 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions in the 2015 regular season. “We’re playing off each other, and I just guess it’s my time”.
Prior to their win on Sunday, the Vikings had one cupcake win over the, Tennessee Titans, who ranked 30th in our nERD rankings, and one signature win over the 9th-ranked Green Bay Packers. I have no idea who they are, or are they are the team they are supposed to be and last season was the team nobody knew? With Peterson injured, Matt Asiata and Jerick McKinnon combined for 70 yards rushing on 22 carries. “He’s too good of a player, as well as Devin (Funchess) and Ted (Ginn) and those guys”. “I felt like today was our biggest platform as a city”. Something’s gotta be done, so hopefully Dave Gettleman is scouting the available DEs for some pass rush help.
Inside the stadium, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton signaled his support during the pre-game workout by wearing a T-shirt with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Although the early exchanges were fairly even, Carolina took the lead midway through the second quarter and never gave it up, something they failed to achieve in Week 1, when the Broncos managed to overturn a ten-point deficit in the fourth quarter.
They did all this without a man I haven’t mentioned yet, the man who has defined the past decade of Vikings football: Adrian Peterson.
So when asked on Wednesday what it has been like during a 1-2 start after losing only two of 19 games (including playoffs) all of last season, the NFL MVP didn’t hold back.
Four people were charged with violating a local ordinance against bringing items like backpacks or body armor within a designated zone around the stadium where the NFL’s Carolina Panthers played the Minnesota Vikings.
The Giants (2-1) built a 21-9 lead on touchdown runs by Vereen and Orleans Darkwa sandwiched around a 23-yard touchdown pass from Manning to receiver Sterling Shepard.