Purple People Eaters are back? Vikings starting to think so

The Carolina Panthers lost a game to the Minnesota Vikings that most expected them to win. “So no, I don’t see a reason to kill him”.

“He’s giving me some advice”. Me personally, I don’t think he is that good, No. 17 (Funchess). “But we’ve got to make sure we’re doing it in a way where we’re not just trying to force him the ball”.

Parcells has to be impressed by his former defensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys.

Newton did rush for a touchdown, but when you create three turnovers, rack up eight sacks and keep Newton and Kelvin Benjamin from hurting you in a meaningful way, it speaks to a job well done for the Vikings’ defense, and in particular Sunday, the defensive line.

The Vikings played a mix of coverages against Benjamin, playing him one-on-one on some plays and shading a safety toward his side of the field in other alignments. Here are the missed opportunities, and how Rivera says they will be rectified. “We don’t listen to that”.

“We just knew where Benjamin was the whole time”, Munnerlyn said.

But his team definitely has Parcells’ attention.

On Sunday they played without injured defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, but in part due to their strong depth – Tom Johnson at three-technique, Shamar Stephen at nose tackle and Hunter at defensive end – that hardly seemed to matter against the Panthers.

“The Panthers game is supposed to be fun and they shouldn’t take away everyone’s joy”, said Megan Bonds of Concord, NC.

“That’s all I gotta say”. The Falcons will be on a short week as they play the Saints on Monday Night Football.

By the second half, Minnesota’s often-struggling offense finally began to move the ball a bit.

Second-half adjustments have been pivotal for the Vikings this season. Knowing they were the underdogs, the Vikings came into the game with something to prove. Another case happened last July when some Minnesota Lynx players wore shirts supporting the “Black lives matter” movement. With Peterson injured, Matt Asiata and Jerick McKinnon combined for 70 yards rushing on 22 carries.

“That safety that Danielle Hunter got was a big turning point in the game”, Zimmer said as it cut Carolina’s lead to 10-2. Those points would be the last the Panthers would score for the rest of the game, though. Waynes and Newman had interceptions.

Audience outcry and heckling during one point of the citizens forum led Roberts to threaten to call a recess to calm the crowd down. Carolina held Minnesota to only 211 yards, including just 58 on 24 rushes, and 3 of 12 (25 percent) on third-down conversions. The result was a three-interception game, matching the total interceptions Newton threw over the final 10 games of the 2015 regular season.

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. They’re a good team with a near-elite defense who gave the Panthers everything they could handle, but the Panthers are a better team than what we saw yesterday. Sherels then made it a 10-8 game when he returned a punt 56 yards for a touchdown.

In Miami, three Dolphins knelt for the anthem, while in Nashville four players from the home team Tennessee Titans raised a fist, and were joined by two players from the visiting Oakland Raiders. That includes a 58-yarder that new gunner Cordarrelle Patterson downed at the 2. Entering Sunday’s game averaging a league-worst 38.6 yards per punt, Locke averaged 48.4 yards per on his seven punts, including a season-best 62-yarder in the first quarter.

Gano’s 54-yard attempt in the second quarter bounced off the right upright. The Panthers had won 14 in a row at home.

On Sunday, all the Vikings did was beat last year’s best team in the NFC.

There was a time in the not-so-recent past that a team in purple and gold would have wound up losing a game like Sunday’s by about 40 points. While that doesn’t seem like much, he showed consistency at a time when star wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin didn’t even get a target until late in the game and Devin Funchess didn’t haul in a pass at all either. Offensively, Norv Turner made some halftime adjustments that worked. The Vikings engineered a touchdown and two field goals on their six second-half drives. First-and-20s aren’t very fun to call.