What Can The Vikings Offense Do To Get Going

Well, I just wanna put it out there too, I'm not being Negative Nancy on this whole thing.

I'm just trying to be realistic and, and look at this thing critically, because there are some concerns.

This game was sloppy from the get-go.

It was messy, it was discombobulated.

Um, let's go through some of the numbers.

So our offensive line probably played the poorest it's played from a pass prus- protection standpoint it has all season long.

We obviously suffered those injuries on the left side.

Um, you know, you gotta give Vandermark and Huber some credit for stepping in, but even before those guys got injured, we already given up a s- a sack or two, give up, gave up a couple pressures.

Um, we had 10 drives in this game, and of those 10 drives, eight of those drives we suffered a self-inflicted wound on offense with a penalty.

We gave up a sack or a couple drives where we had both.

So we had only two clean drives the whole game.

And the other metric that I think sticks out, and it's nice to kinda have this number, 'cause I think we all see it and feel it, but it's nice to have this context to it, but we are in the bottom third in the league in down or distance to go on third down.

So we're at, we're average about 7.4 yards per third down right now, which puts us in the bottom third of the league.

Um, our offense is not efficient enough, it's not explosive enough, and the times where we saw Kyler late in the game start to get into a rhythm, a lot of those passes were under seven yards.

So if you're not doing a very good job on first and second down, a lot of those short throws are probably not gonna generate first downs for you very often.

So, um, I'm not super negative, but there are some concerns.