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In Gus We Trust?
Posted 09-18-2008 at 01:11 PM by Da Bomb
Yeah, probably not. What a waste of a season. How do you stake an entire season on a young QB and then pull the plug on him after two games against very good defenses where he actually played above average when you LET him try to make plays?
Brad Childress and Darrell Bevel (the OC) are complete idiots. This is the worst offense I've seen run in pro football since the days of Shoop's Bears offense. Both games so far these guys have kept the diaper on TJack and the offense for basically the entire half, and then by the time they got desperate and opened up the offense (and saw production), it was too late. You don't beat good teams like the Packers and Colts with one half of offense.
Take a look at the last minute or so before halftmie against the Colts. Somehow Bevel and Childress must have fallen asleep and didnt force the Vikes to run out the clock, and instead Jackson got out of the pocket and made two plays in a row, got the team into field position, and got 3 points out of it. Coming out of the half, it was a different Jackson in the third quarter. He was confident, he made all the throws, and he ran the offense as well as he ever has.... until he got hit and fumbled the ball late in the quarter, was immediately booed lustily by the fans, and got an earful on the sidelines. Then he stunk again. They just never gave him a chance to run the offense his way. They tried to be too careful, and they are the reason he failed.
So why Gus? Well, I can only hope the coaching staff has more confidence in Gus so that they at least run a normal-ish offense with him in there. Of course Adrian is going to get stuffed for a bunch of 1 and 2 yard runs when the defense can put 8 or 9 in the box on 1st and long and 2nd and long, and then pin their ears back and pass rush to the dickens on 3rd and long. Our offense right now is called hope-peterson-breaks-a-long-run-sometimes and then he either scores or we kick a field goal. Fantastic.
Gus adds nothing to this offense or to the future of this ball club. The Vikings are going to start out 0-5 or maybe 1-4 going into the bye, and the season will already be long over. Benching Jackson now not only costs the Vikings' this season, it also costs them their future. You don't bench a guy all season that you expect to ever make an impact for you again. This basically declares, we are finding ourselves a new QB next season.
Lucky for us, we should lose enough games with Gus at the helm to get ourselves in pretty solid draft position to do so...
Brad Childress and Darrell Bevel (the OC) are complete idiots. This is the worst offense I've seen run in pro football since the days of Shoop's Bears offense. Both games so far these guys have kept the diaper on TJack and the offense for basically the entire half, and then by the time they got desperate and opened up the offense (and saw production), it was too late. You don't beat good teams like the Packers and Colts with one half of offense.
Take a look at the last minute or so before halftmie against the Colts. Somehow Bevel and Childress must have fallen asleep and didnt force the Vikes to run out the clock, and instead Jackson got out of the pocket and made two plays in a row, got the team into field position, and got 3 points out of it. Coming out of the half, it was a different Jackson in the third quarter. He was confident, he made all the throws, and he ran the offense as well as he ever has.... until he got hit and fumbled the ball late in the quarter, was immediately booed lustily by the fans, and got an earful on the sidelines. Then he stunk again. They just never gave him a chance to run the offense his way. They tried to be too careful, and they are the reason he failed.
So why Gus? Well, I can only hope the coaching staff has more confidence in Gus so that they at least run a normal-ish offense with him in there. Of course Adrian is going to get stuffed for a bunch of 1 and 2 yard runs when the defense can put 8 or 9 in the box on 1st and long and 2nd and long, and then pin their ears back and pass rush to the dickens on 3rd and long. Our offense right now is called hope-peterson-breaks-a-long-run-sometimes and then he either scores or we kick a field goal. Fantastic.
Gus adds nothing to this offense or to the future of this ball club. The Vikings are going to start out 0-5 or maybe 1-4 going into the bye, and the season will already be long over. Benching Jackson now not only costs the Vikings' this season, it also costs them their future. You don't bench a guy all season that you expect to ever make an impact for you again. This basically declares, we are finding ourselves a new QB next season.
Lucky for us, we should lose enough games with Gus at the helm to get ourselves in pretty solid draft position to do so...
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What happens after the first two weeks? Who knows. Had Gus or almost any real QB been under center the first two weeks, the Vikings are most likely 2-0, and this is a much different story right nowPosted 09-18-2008 at 11:00 PM by Mike
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i completely disagree. jackson actually made a lot of plays the first two weeks, and he made very few mistakes. the vikes would be 0-2 anyway, and i dont think they'd have really been in either of those games down until the end.Posted 09-18-2008 at 11:14 PM by Da Bomb 
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If Shiancoe had held onto that first touchdown pass against the Colts, instead of dropping it, Jackson would probably still have his job.Posted 09-18-2008 at 11:51 PM by dukdown
