Minnesota Thoughts

[Rich]

Good:
Harrington finished with his highest qb rating of the season - 76.9 . He played winning football. He has improved 2 weeks in a row.

Zach had 17 tackles. Bell had 12 with another Pass Defended.

2 defensive Touchdowns by Taylor and Hill won this game.

Renaldo Hill had 2 passes defended. He has stepped up his plan this past month. 6 games into the season, he had 0 passes defended. In the last 4 games, he has 4 passes defended.
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Bad:
58 yard touchdown negated by a chop block by Justin Peele. Why is he playing fullback? Wasn't Darrian Barnes supposed to be better than Fred Beasley? Is Peele better than Barnes?

Fumbled hand-off at the 4-yard line.

Joey's int was almost a pick-6. A defensive stand bailed us out, otherwise the game would have ended tied.

Mare missed another field goal.

Ronnie Brown had no where to run.
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Overall:
It's hard to win games with 0 yards rushing. It's also hard to win with 10 offensive points.

A better than usual performance by Joey Harrington, plus defensive scoring like the bears game, handed us a lucky victory. It's about time we won a close game.

 

[Frank B]

58 yard touchdown negated by a chop block by Justin Peele. Why is he playing fullback? Wasn't Darrian Barnes supposed to be better than Fred Beasley? Is Peele better than Barnes?

Peele was in as our second tight end, not fullback. It's a regular part of our offense to shift one of the tight ends into the backfield. Plus, that penalty never should have been called. Yes, Peele went low for the defender even though he was already engaged with Carey, but when you watch the replay, Peele whiffed the block. He never made contact. I think the official could have picked up the flag on that one.

 

[zach attach]

One thing that stuck out from yesterday. Some plays we brought everybody in on Johnson and he paused so many seconds to let our defenders get close, then he passes it off to a tight end or back. It was good playcalling. They got alot of yards off those plays, albeit in increments, but enough for first downs. It looked to me like that call was killing us and our attempts to stop their drives.

 

[PhinsFanDan]

great post i agree with mostly all of it
didnt bell have a fumble recovery as well?