PJD’s Week 12 Recap: No Blow Outs!

I didn’t actually watch this game.

True story. It’s Packers vs. Vikings week, and I couldn’t really find much interest in it. What, do we beat the Packers to go to 5-6 on the season? I guess that would have piqued my interest a little bit, but probably not a ton. And it’s not like we’d have been totally screwing the Packers out of anything. It’s Week 12 in the NFL. There is SO much time left for football. Nothing is being decided in Week 12. Unless your the Vikings, and you basically take yourself out of even long-shot playoff odds.

So, no interest in this game, full expectations that we’d lose – which we did – and no real stakes involved. With low expectations like that, you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that I was pleasantly impressed with a final score of 24-21 against the Packers. I was largely expecting a choking out. The fact that the only difference statistically between Aaron Rodgers and Teddy Bridgewater was an interception was fun, although I would wager that if I actually bothered to watch this game that the “eye test” difference would have been a bit more extreme. I caught a little bit of KFAN’s Fan Line after the game and heard them talking about the defense playing better or something, but holding the Packers to 24 points should probably be good enough to win, so I don’t get that.

It might have just been as simple as this: We’re not a very good team, and we didn’t play as well as we needed to win, and so the Packers won, and there you go. This is your Vikings recap in Week 11 and for all of 2014, pretty much.

Other notes:

– Sounds like Matt Kalil is still a really big asshole. No surprises there.

– Cordarrelle Patterson is really bothersome at this point. The fact that some dude named Charles Johnson (Not the offensive linemen, blessedly) is playing better than you should be embarrassing.

– Super glad we got Rudolph back to really open up that passing game for Teddy. Or nah?

– Our safeties accounted for 20 tackles. Again, without watching the game actually it’s probably hard for me to make a fair assessment about this, but I imagine that’s not conducive for an NFL team to win in this day and age. You should probably be making more of those tackles up front.

– Has Anthony Barr hit a rookie wall? He’s been a little quiet the last few weeks.

Anyway, whatever. The Vikings play the Panthers next weekend. We either get a win, or Cam Newton goes Michael Vick on our weak ass and we drop to 4-8. THE SUSPENSE!