If the Vikings win you'd have to bet they're SNF next week. Division title and 1 seed is on the line no matter what Detroit does tomorrow.

Vikings putting one on GB. You hate to see it.

Thinking vikes game is over

Lol, you think one metric means everything?

If I was an NFL free agent, I would not go to the Vikings. That stupid Viking horn on their loudspeaker is incredibly annoying after every single play. I've watched one game, and I'm already sick of it.

I think if you put Darnold on the Packers he wouldn’t look anywhere near as good as he does on a team with those weapons

Terrible in person.

GB has plenty of weapons. Love just isn't as efficient. And let's not forget that Love has been in that system for years, played with most of those weapons for years, except for Jacobs. Meanwhile, Darnold is just a few months into his first season with his weapons, in that system, with those coaches. Darnold's not even playing with the whole playbook, fcs.

Watching the Fins left tackle get absolutely worked by Garrett makes me appreciate Thuney more..

A 14 win team isn't going to win a division, and will have to go on the road for a wildcard weekend game. Crazy

Well, if anyone actually read the numbers...

PAA (points contributed)
Love - 21.4
Darnold 21.7

Plays with a non-zero contribution (anything that's not just handing it off)
Love - 451
Darnold - 605

EPA
Love - 51.9
Darnold - 70.3

Pass (epa with an emphasis on bigger plays)
Love - 41.7
Darnold - 58

Run (clutch-weighted runs)
Love - 3.7
Darnold - 5.9

Sack (Darnold's been sacked 45 times, Love 11)
Love - -5
Darnold - -18.7

a super bowl IV rematch in the same host city would be kinda cool.

Vikes kicker doinks a 43 yd, left upright

Vikings getting their kicking woes in playoff form.

****ing kickers.... LMAO

That wouldn’t have been grounding on Josh Allen

Love is more efficient than Darnold with far less around him

Vikings would make that trade in a second

Let's keep it to reality, not what you think might happen. In reality, Darnold is the better QB, period.

He isn’t

Gotta play a little better defense than the Vikings are now

LMAO What Aaron Rodgers does to a mother****er.

https://x.com/SportsCenter/status/1873513707155636584

By just about every statistical measurement, he is.

Fins win and still in

I’d take Jayden Reed off their hands. They don’t seem to know how to use him.

The Vikings have some weird formation where they basically have no defensive tackles. They have two ends lined up really wide, and then a guy who looks like a defensive tackle, but he's three or four yards off the center alongside the linebackers. I assume you only do this if you're 100 percent certain that a pass play is coming.

No

Miami still in the running next week.

Bengals in trouble

Don’t understand going for 2 there

Said it a few times in other threads that I'm not one to root for a particular match-up but love that the concept of both the Bengals and Broncos being knocked out of the post-season is still in play.

Lol, clearly, 'yes.'
https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/playe...ating/dir/desc

Seen QB’s like Darnold for 40 years as a Chief fan. He would be the typical Carl Peterson QB

Feels like you're seeing more teams do that. If the Vikings score a TD it's still a 2 score game. That's the long and short of it.

Vikes 27-pack 18

6 min left, vikes ball

Did MIA bench Tua because of the weather, lol?

Yeah - need 3 things to happen still.

Counting the Dolpins as winners:

Of 8 scanarios, Broncos win 5, Dolphins 2, Bengals 1.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/qbr

Clearly no

He has a hip injury

Fumble by darnold?


Edit

incomplete

What they're saying is, we would have gone for 2 for the win, so let's do that now, so that we know what we have to do later NOW.

Why are the Vikings even passing

Not necessarily. If the Vikings score a quick TD here, kick the XP it's 34-18 and the Packers need 2 TDs and two 2-pointers.

If the Packers kick an XP and the Vikings score, it's 34-17. Three score game, game is over. It's some way-ahead thinking math for sure, but it's guaranteeing a TD won't completely finish the game.

amazing catch then holding call

Yeah, having Jefferson definitely isn’t making Darnold look good

It's not nice to give reading material to the blind.



Mildly amusing in this case, but still.

that was a duck


Vikes with the go all in mentality.

This Vikings win (assuming they hold on) means that the Sunday night game next week is pretty much guaranteed to be the Vikings vs Lions. Also, as near as I can tell, the Eagles and Vikings lose a three way tie with the Lions, so the Lions might actually decide to treat tomorrow’s game like a preseason game. It appears to have zero impact on their potential seeding. No matter what they have to beat the Vikings next week.

Darnold is seemingly trying to give this game away with these throws

Blind are those who can’t see that Darnold is the 2024 version of 2023 Brock Purdy

Lol, again, you got one stat. We've got 5 more, plus about a half dozen more gross stats, that say Darnold is significantly better than Love. Try something else.

Yeah, that's a real possibility too. Probably both, honestly.

The average point differential per game today has been 20.25.

Pile of shit gameday.

Bizarre circumstance for the Lions. None of the wildcards are even close to them, so it’s almost certainly the 5 or 1 for them.

I wonder what stats Jordan Love would have with Jefferson

Packers need to score a TD or kick the FG prior to the 2 min warning

Darnold is Purdy with some actual arm talent, ignoring that fact is just you being a douchebag

Dobbs is no Jefferson

No he’s basically just Purdy

Why don’t more teams kick the field goal earlier in these situation?

Leave yourself some time to get the ball back.

And if Darnold has “arm talent” what does Love have?

Get out of bounds!

Huge mistake not to go out of bounds, moron

You can’t run the ball there LMAO

JC, stop trying to change the subject. Love has all the advantages here. He has a top-10 team, a top-10 HC/OC, he's had 4 years in the system with said coaches, system and teammates. He may have more potential, but in reality, he's just not as good as Darnold in 2024, by nearly every metric imaginable.

Great drive! There's time!

Why run the ball? You have to score or stop the clock only.

Lions win the division with a win next week regardless. Assuming Minnesota hangs on (getting tight!), they lose the Division if they lose - tomorrow's game has.no impact unless Minnesota loses somehow today.

It will be a 2 way tie - cant be 3 way tie.

The Lions would win tiebreaker over Eagles with better conference record. So... you're correct, tomorrow's game doesn't matter, UNLESS Vikings blow today's game.

He’s better by QBR and he’s better by the eye test

Blow that stupid horn now, Vikings stadium guy.

It is amusing the argument is going on while the QB with 110 yards passing all of 10 minutes ago drives his team down for a couple of touchdowns, heh.

Coaches are bad at their jobs

Will the Vikes blow it?

Yep. I was going to point out that those numbers show Darnold to be a better passer.

It's a dumb stat because it gives too much weight to running QBs and sacks.

Burrow blows everyone out of the water on the passing metrics but gets hugely dinged in the sack which brings his total score down significantly.

How much trust will OConnell show here

Ha.

Missed FG really matters now.

Love is good, yes

Especially this quarter

QBR loves Burrow, you should be defending Love