There are so many seasons I can recall seeing the same thing over and over and over again.
The Vikings Defense playing a prevent style defense. The QB snaps the ball, Tight End runs a slant to the middle, grabs 8-12 yards. Rinse, repeat, over and over again.
I know the blitz heavy defense isn’t for everyone and it comes with it’s own challenges, but it’s so refreshing to no longer see teams eat away at the middle while we’re trying to prevent big pass plays.
All we were doing was delaying the inevitable.
It’s also a much more fun defense to watch and a far more aggressive type of play. I like seeing our defense engaged and pumped up and running a blitz heavy defense. It seems the players get more pumped up as well.
That’s all I had to say, I am happy.
I think I expected more huge blown coverages with the type of defense we’ve been playing, but the way the DBs are coordinating and understanding their assignments, and the way they close to the ball and tackle effectively is really exciting.
It goes to show how much of a difference competent coaching can make, since a lot of the players on the field that are really killing it this year (Bynum, Smith, Metellus, Evans, Hicks, etc.) were holdovers from the previous defense.
Really not looking forward to Flores going off to get a head coaching position somewhere.
I’m not sure if Flores is gonna get another head coaching job anytime soon. That lawsuit with the NFL and other owners I think put him in a bad light. I absolutely don’t think that’s warranted but whatever keeps him in Minny is fine by me