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Cornerback Antoine Winfield is never really mentioned when people talk about the best corners in football because everyone is always fixated on interceptions. Winfield is strong in run support and teams don’t really challenge him that much because he’s so good in coverage. Winfield already has 24 tackles and an interception that he returned 7 yards for a TD. Don’t look for the Bills to mess with him on Sunday.
The Vikings and the Bills mirror each other in style. Neither team scores alot or gives up alot of points. The Vikings average 17 points per game and allow 15 points per game. The Bills average 17.7 points per game and allow 17.7 points per game.
The Vikings run a very conservative offense and will again vs. the Bills on Sunday. The Vikings will try to run the ball first with Chester Taylor (275 yards rushing) and then Brad Johnson will try to chop up the Bills with short passes.
The Bills prefer to run the ball with Willis McGahee (311 yards rushing) to protect JP Losman from making bad decisions with the ball. The problem with that philosophy against the Vikings is that the Vikings are very solid against the run, allowing only 87.0 yards per game rushing and 3.6 yards per carry. At some point Losman will have to take some chances against the Vikings defense.
I like the Vikings here because they will give JP Losman enough rope to hang himself.
LB Ben Leber may not play because he sprained his knee on Sunday. Pre-season tackle leader Heath Farwell would get the first shot to replace him.
The Vikings played a good football game, but not good enough to beat the Bears. Brad Johnson did his usual good job, completing 21 of 31 passes for 194 yards. Chester Taylor carried the ball 20 times for 74 yards. Travis Taylor had a good game, catching passes for 82 yards. Troy Williamson caught 4 passes for 39 yards.
The defense stuffed the Bears running game, holding them to 51 yards and 2.4 yards per carry. The Bears completed 56.1% of their passes for 274 net yards. Antoine Winfield came to play making 10 tackles and intercepting a pass.
The Vikings have nothing to hang their head about.
Man I was so excited to see Mowelde get in the game at his natural position, and what does he do… Its 3rd and 3 and if we don’t get these 3 yards we can hang it up plus punt. The boy took us and put us on his back ( along with some of the Bears who led the leauge in defence last year) and got us those yards pushing and pulling, grinding and pumping those legs to and past the 1st down marker. How do we repay him, take him out of the game and put in a guy who to me is a 7 on a 10 scale. No disrespect intended I can’t do what he do,but believe me you MoMo knows the system and was gaining more yards than this guy without the high paid O-lineman, that don’t get me wrong I am thrilled to have. And just another quick not to Defensive Coach Mike Timlin Do yo thang big hommie, it fells good not having to see everybody and they momma come up in here and have a field day on us. Hey Ziggy got to be a way to get Randy Back he still got his Purple Truck and we got D’ maybe we can SEE.
Tavaris Jackson will have to undergo knee surgery after hurting himself in practice yesterday. He should miss a month to six weeks,
Troy Williamson is emerging as the go-to threat for Brad Johnson. Williamson had a little trouble picking up the NFL game last year, but with another off-season and training camp he looks much improved. Williamson has blazing speed and is averaging 17.9 yards per catch this season. Williamson is the team leader in catches with 10.
This is a key battle to start the season in the NFC North. The Bears’ defense has performed as expected, but the offense has been a huge surprise for them. The Bears prefer to run the ball, but they haven’t had much success at it this year only averaging 98.0 yards per game and only 2.8 yards per carry. The Vikings defense is vulnerable to the running game, so the Bears will give them a heavy dose of Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson. As soon as they establish their running game, look for Rex Grossman to run alot of play-action and try to take shots down the field to Mushin Muhammad and Bernard Berrian. The Vikings will also have to be careful, because Grossman has been making good use of TE Desmond Clark, who has caught 10 passes for 162 yards this season.
The Vikings run a balanced offense with RB Chester Taylor being the key player. Taylor has 259 combined rushing and receiving yards so far this season. The Vikings must establish a running game to slow the Bears pass rush which has 9 sacks in two games. Look for Brad Johnson to use TE Jermaine Wiggins alot on short passes to help move the sticks against the Bears aggressive defense.
This should be a slobber knocker of a football game. I can’t pick a winner in this game, because the MetroDome is the great equalizer.
Erasmus James will miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL. This is a big blow to the Vikings defense which has played well so far this season.
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