Post Game GB Falls To Vikings 31-29

Rewatched the game:

Tons of mistakes. Penalties, drops, TOs, and missed FGs.

7 mistakes in the 1st quarter alone. Including a dropped INT, a dropped pass, and an INT.

6 mistakes in the 2nd including another 2 drops and another INT.

4 mistakes in the 3rd. Another 3 drops.

2 mistakes in the 4th. INT and a fumble.

Wilson & McDuffie are trash. They are slow and don't read holes well.

Love threw into double and triple coverage twice for INTs and threw into double coverage two more times. Could have had 5 INTs. He needs to learn to throw the ball away more. He made some great throws but was also very rusty. Of course, if we don't have drops things are even better.

We only played good football for about a half a quarter, IMO and still almost beat the Vikings. I don't think the Vikings are better. The Vikings are just more sound and disciplined right now.

The good news is everything I saw for mistakes is correctable.
 
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Two other things to add.

Our defensive line was dominated all day by the Vikings o-line. This was the main reason why the Vikings moved the football and Darnold had a solid game. He had tons of time and we allowed him to escape 3 or 4 times for 1st downs.

Jayden Reed is an absolute stud. He is our #1 guy at WR without a doubt. Doubs is #2 and Wicks is 3, IMO. Unfortunately, Watson is 3 or 4 even when he is in there. He just cannot seem to get out of his own way and continues to be unlucky with injuries. JMHO, I think we need to draft another WR higher in next years draft.
 
ChampionshipBelt said:
Love threw into double and triple coverage twice for INTs and threw into double coverage two more times. Could have had 5 INTs. He needs to learn to throw the ball away more. He made some great throws but was also very rusty. Of course, if we don't have drops things are even better.
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For whatever you think it's worth, I believe ML said that the first INT was a tremendous play/read by the Vikings LB. I think he said Love read it right and the LB just kinda baited him and made a play. I think the LBs read on that was helped by Luke Musgrave - stop me if you've heard this - not carrying his route properly across the field, allowing the LB to play close enough to Watson's in-breaker to actually be in position to make the play. When it's this close, I would like Love to learn to not make this throw. Take the sack and punt if you need to.

The second INT, I don't think that was double coverage. Doubs was one on one with a CB, and MN dropped the S underneath in between Doubs and Musgrave, and then I think a corner was deep over the top playing as a S. Again, the ball was meant for Doubs and was right on the money, Musgrave leaped up and tipped the thing and loused up the timing. Look at the video and the second angle, that throw was going to hit Doubs in stride for a nice gain, Musgrave tipping it sent it behind Doubs. Regardless of the details, I don't see anything wrong with the decision or read.


My take away from this is that Musgrave is becoming a problem for them. He's not making enough good plays to offset the messiness of this other stuff.
 
rpiotr01 said:
My take away from this is that Musgrave is becoming a problem for them. He's not making enough good plays to offset the messiness of this other stuff.
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which is one of the reasons why kraft is getting a lot more snaps. kraft also does a much better job blocking than musgrave. at this point it is looking like musgrave was over-drafted and thankfully kraft is looking like he should have been drafted much earlier. i'm still hoping we can salvage musgrave.
 
realitybytes said:
which is one of the reasons why kraft is getting a lot more snaps. kraft also does a much better job blocking than musgrave. at this point it is looking like musgrave was over-drafted and thankfully kraft is looking like he should have been drafted much earlier. i'm still hoping we can salvage musgrave.
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I agree, but I think what I've learned over the years is that you can't hide guys. They all have to do their jobs. And if you have a guy who is poor at some things he better do something else really well that makes up for it. The clip I linked to above is interesting in that Harrison Smith was in between Musgrave and Doubs but he bit on Musgrave's route, so Luke's presence is doing something at least. Just not enough.
 
rpiotr01 said:
For whatever you think it's worth, I believe ML said that the first INT was a tremendous play/read by the Vikings LB. I think he said Love read it right and the LB just kinda baited him and made a play. I think the LBs read on that was helped by Luke Musgrave - stop me if you've heard this - not carrying his route properly across the field, allowing the LB to play close enough to Watson's in-breaker to actually be in position to make the play. When it's this close, I would like Love to learn to not make this throw. Take the sack and punt if you need to.

The second INT, I don't think that was double coverage. Doubs was one on one with a CB, and MN dropped the S underneath in between Doubs and Musgrave, and then I think a corner was deep over the top playing as a S. Again, the ball was meant for Doubs and was right on the money, Musgrave leaped up and tipped the thing and loused up the timing. Look at the video and the second angle, that throw was going to hit Doubs in stride for a nice gain, Musgrave tipping it sent it behind Doubs. Regardless of the details, I don't see anything wrong with the decision or read.


My take away from this is that Musgrave is becoming a problem for them. He's not making enough good plays to offset the messiness of this other stuff.
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RP, I could see the second INT being Musgraves fault. Doubs was visually upset after that play. Maybe that was why.
 
ChampionshipBelt said:
RP, I could see the second INT being Musgraves fault. Doubs was visually upset after that play. Maybe that was why.
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Yeah, like it was the right play call, the right throw, good route, beat coverage, good throw - Musgrave tipped the ball and Doubs had it hit his hands and bounced up into the defender's hands. Probably ticked about the last part more than anything.
 


Interesting. You’ve gotta land haymakers against the Vikings D. GB offense was more or less doing what it needed to do, but some bad luck/bad decisions on picks and inability to get stops in the first half doomed them. They’re right there though.
 
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