This will be Rodgers’ first game in new Vikings new stadium and he’s no doubt determined to avenge the worst game Doppleganger ever played as a GB QB. 3 fumbles, 1 INT, at least a dozen poor QB decisions, took 2 double digit sack loses [5 all together], the last 2 drives were a choke job ending on a Doppelganger fumble and INT. The GB QB single-handedly lost this game.
On O, its pretty simple. Minny has Rhodes, a stud, and a pile of crap for CBs. Wayens outside and Newman and Alexander inside are horrible. 3 or 4 receivers will be open consistently. If our OL is playing well, it’ll get ugly. But if B team or hobbled A team are not doing well, Rodgers is going to need to do what he did in Chicago, get the ball out in 2.2. Minny’s pass rush is one of the best and they have a deep rotation. Datone couldn’t even crack this rotation.
Last year, when Burnett went out our Secondary became a sieve. Hopefully, Brice and/or Evans a year older can pick-up most of Burnett's free/strong safety slack.
I think Jones will equal or do better than Burnett in the nitro. The killer will be replacing Burnett’s slot CB snaps. If House don’t go that job will fall to Rollins and Q was fantastic at Minny last year covering Diggs, Thielan and Charles Johnson. In this game Diggs went off for 182 toasting mostly Randall and our trio of ILBs and 2 PI calls on Randall [1 declined cause he caught the ball]. The ILB’s inability to get their drops caused half of Diggs’ yards. They’ll try this again. This time Diggs’ replacement wont be as good and Martinez, Jones and Ryan will be infinitely better at protecting the center of field. In the second game last year, Theilan went off on us mostly against Rollins when they both lined up outside [so this match-up will only occur if there’s further injury].
This year Minny’s 3 WR set had Thielan in slot w/ Treadwell and Diggs outside. Diggs is out, Treadwell sucks. I expect Floyd [whose 1st game this year was last week] to Replace Diggs both in 2 and 3 WR sets. Keenum is nothing but a dinker and a dunker, he wont beat us throwing to outside WRs, except when they run slants or drags. His entire game is about Rudolph, the RB and Thielan in slot. If we take these guys out it’ll be a slaughter. It is really too bad Burnett s not playing. Keenum’s safety blankets are the backs and Rudolph.
The LG Easton is out, he's a 2nd yr guy who’s done well in pass pro. His replacement Sirles, who was playing RT in our 2nd game last year got lit up by Perry last year. Sirles is a 6’6” tackle, the perfect specimen for Daniels. If Daniels’ hip is better [he lacked some explosion last week] he’ll get under Sirles’ pads and launch him back repeatedly. I’d like to see Clark play some zero in passing downs and push their rookie center into Keenum's lap.