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Marshall Eriksen IRL | I write for @VikingTerritory & @zonecoveragemn | @KindredSkols podcast on @Climb_ThePocket & @DailyNorseman

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Jaire Alexander: "Put me one-on-one in man vs Justin Jefferson!" Jaire Alexander one-on-one in man vs Justin Jefferson:
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Diggs to Cousins on the sideline: "Don't feel like you gotta force s— to me all right? Play your game!" wHaT a DiVa
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Stefon Diggs vs. six different all-pros:
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absolutely disgusting
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Sam Darnold really just led a 4th quarter game-clinching drive against maybe the best team in the NFL without his WR1, WR2 or TE1
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Jaire Alexander said the Vikings weren't that good, so I went back and checked the tape:
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Saints by 17
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Cam Akers a real one for this 🫡
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5 years
Bring back 96 Questions
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Justin Jefferson and Nick Olson through two weeks: 😈 20 REC 😈 309 YDS 😈 14 First Downs
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AJ Brown & DeVonta Smith through two weeks: 🦅 22 REC 🦅 286 YDS 🦅 2 TDs Do the Eagles have the best WR duo in the NFL?
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5 years
man talk about running a receiver's route for them
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Kevin O'Connell was not thrilled with Reagor letting up on his route, leading to an interception:
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6 years
Stefon Diggs currently has 88 catches without a single drop. That is the most catches without a drop in a single season that Pro Football Focus has ever recorded.
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2 years
Had 'em right where we wanted 'em
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2 years
Absolutely elite defensive celebration here by the #Vikings defense:
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2 years
Every Vikings game this year be like:
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Jefferson clearly frustrated with his lack of targets after the team win
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7 months
Nailed it
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5 years
THIELEN: I broke three bones in my back on this play. ...I might've come out for the next play, but I played the rest of the game. JAWS: ...You broke three bones, and played next week? THIELEN: Yeah, they weren't bones that were important.
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And with that, the Packers have just a 3% chance to make the playoffs:
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1 year
Watch Cam Akers ( #31 ) until the end
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2 years
This happened and it wasn't even like a top-five Justin Jefferson moment today
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11 months
Dalton Risner was AMPED
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4 years
Justin Jefferson is currently PFF's #1 graded WR Adam Thielen is #2
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JIMMY
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3 years
#Vikings twitter successfully bullied Zim into fourth down aggression and bullied Klint into force feeding Justin Jefferson, banner day
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2 years
Give Duke Shelley a lifetime contract
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5 years
The 84 Million Dollar Man Is Here
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4 years
Justin Jefferson with a nasty double move:
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2 years
Considering the context and that it set up the eventual win — greatest catch of all time
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2 years
JUSTIN JEFFERSON CATCH OF THE CENTURY.
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5 years
Aaron Rodgers' Go-To Receivers Since the Start of 2018: 1. Davante Adams - 115 receptions 2. Throwing the ball out of play - 61 throwaways 3. Jimmy Graham - 58 receptions 4. Marquez Valdes-Scantling - 42 receptions 5. Randall Cobb - 38 receptions
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3 years
Kirk Cousins is a Dalvin Cook fumble and a missed 37-yard game-winning kick away from being in the thick of the MVP conversation
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and then he ran into Danielle Hunter in the playoffs
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Ryan Ramczyk allowed 𝟎 sacks on 613 pass-blocking snaps in 2019 (regular season)
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Pretty perfect throw. Too bad life is meaningless.
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5 years
Eagles are releasing LB Zach Brown, per source. Multiple teams expected to be interested.
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3 years
IT FINALLY HAPPENED
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Duke Shelley finishes the regular season with the third-best coverage grade among all CBs, behind only Sauce Gardner and Patrick Surtain. Shelley did not allow a touchdown all season and recorded 10 pass breakups — 4th-most in the NFL — despite starting just five games.
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2 years
Holy smokes Kirko
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4 years
lol
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3 years
😭😭😭
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4 years
We're barely a week into #VikingsCamp and Justin Jefferson already has his own highlight reel
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2 years
Justin Jefferson put up 193 yards and wasn't even targeted on the best route he ran all day:
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5 years
Lowest career drop rates among all receivers: 10. Zach Ertz: 4.88% 9. Kyle Rudolph: 4.81% 8. Adam Thielen: 4.43% 7. Antonio Brown: 4.31% 6. Cole Beasley: 4.02% 5. Jordan Reed: 3.98% 3t. Larry Fitzgerald: 3.61% 3t. Stefon Diggs: 3.61% 2. Nuk Hopkins: 3.51% 1. Mike Thomas: 2.76%
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4 years
Kirk Cousins attempts the Griddy
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2 years
The fact that this was Justin Jefferson's first career touchdown is just so perfect:
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5 years
Danielle Hunter currently leads the NFL in pressures generated. Everson Griffen is second.
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3 years
Who's stopping this Packers Offense? 😤😤😤
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2 years
@JohnMillerNBC26 TBH I agree it was a fluke Considering all the routes where JJ burned Jaire but wasn't targeted, should've been way more
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6 years
There are maybe five elite route runners in the NFL. Two of them are on the #Vikings .
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5 years
Adam Thielen oof
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3 years
I don't know if the Vikings will fire Mike Zimmer. All I know is if they do, he will immediately be hired by some downtrodden franchise & within the next couple years will win the Super Bowl while the Vikings continue to languish in mediocity. I know it in my deep heart's core.
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5 years
literally how
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1 year
Kevin O'Connell's offense just won a game putting up 31 points behind his QB4 that just got here four days ago
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2 years
Do you believe in miracles?
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Christian Darrisaw vs. Rashan Gary:
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5 years
Most Pressures Generated By an NFL Defender: 1. JJ Watt: 51 2. Danielle Hunter: 49 3. Everson Griffen: 44 No one else is above 40
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4 years
Defensive Efficiency Over the Last Five Years Mike Zimmer is good:
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He's so freaking good
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4 years
Danielle Hunter coming off IR in a week
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The absolute STONES of Kwesi to trade down from 34 with the best player available at a premium position of need still on the board, fleecing a divisional rival in the proess, then trading back up 8 picks later to take that same player. Masterclass.
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6 years
Adam Thielen: confirmed Minnesotan
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4 years
Haters will say this Kirk Cousins' fourth-quarter comeback drive is fake
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4 years
After trading Diggs and losing half their starters on defense, it really looked like the Vikings were staring down something of a rebuild in 2020. That changed with this draft. The Vikings nailed it—pick after pick of high impact, high value, high character, high upside players.
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2 years
Simply one of the best throws of Kirk Cousins' career:
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4 years
Right now Justin Jefferson is 8th in the NFL in receiving yards, and he didn't even start the first two games
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5 years
This year Eric Kendricks... • Broke PFF's record for most single-season pass breakups by a LB • Has allowed the lowest completion % of any LB • Has the 5th-most run stops by any player • Ranks 3rd in pass rush productivity among LBs • Is the highest-graded LB in football
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lol Darrisaw
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2 years
Something about Harrison Smith — the grizzled vet who actually made the interception — cooly walking off the field in the background while the rest of the team celebrates wildly is so funny to me
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4 years
Adam Thielen vs. Justin Jefferson:
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5 years
It has been over 900 days since the Packers last beat the Vikings.
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3 years
@chargers @Vikings finally, a banner y'all can fly high at SoFi
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Watch the Vikings' defenders lose it as they realize one-by-one that the refs blew the fumble recovery TD dead
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2 years
Justin Jefferson cooking Patrick Peterson on an out route:
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The Vikings currently have the most drops of any team in the NFL. Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen, who account for 54% of the team's targets, only have one drop between them.
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When Kirk Cousins scored the go-ahead touchdown to cap off the 20-point comeback last week, if you listen close, you can hear him say to himself under his breath, "You like that? You like that?"
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4 years
Every time I feel like the Vikings can't hurt me anymore, they find new ways to trick me into getting hurt again
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2 years
how it started how it’s goin
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Harrison Smith: • Shows blitz • Bails to Cover 2 • Makes the run stop at the line of scrimmage anyway
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6 years
Offensive tackles with at least 300 pass blocking snaps this year and zero sacks allowed: • Tyron Smith • Terron Armstead • Brian O'Neill That's the whole list.
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2 years
Is it really a fraudulent one-score game when you win in spite of this:
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4 years
here are a bunch of great plays from kirk cousins that no one will ever remember
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The Chiefs earned a 42.2 team pass blocking grade in the Super Bowl per PFF, their lowest since Week 14 of 2010 For comparison the Vikings earned a team pass block grade below 42 three times just in the last year.
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Vikings really won a game in which their offense went three-and-out on ten of their fifteen total drives
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Why aren't more people talking about Christian Darrisaw? He's the second-highest-graded tackle in football (behind only Trent Williams) and his film has more non-stop jam-packed violence than a Quentin Tarantino flick
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don't mind me i'm just comparing two MVP candidates
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#Vikings ' Points Allowed Per Game Ranking Over the Last Decade: 2011: 31st 2012: 15th 2013: 32nd 2014: 11th <--- Mike Zimmer arrives 2015: 5th 2016: 6th 2017: 1st 2018: 9th 2019: 6th
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Brian O'Neill has now gone over 1,000 consecutive pass blocking snaps without giving up a sack, per PFF. That doesn't just break PFF's record for longest sackless streak to start a career—it breaks PFF's record for longest sackless streak by any OT, at any point in their career.
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don't mind me I'm just comparing two pro bowl quarterbacks
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The #Vikings currently lead the NFL in sacks. No team has invested fewer 1st or 2nd rounders on their D-line in the past 10 years. And yet Danielle Hunter (3rd rounder), Everson Griffen (4th rounder) & Stephen Weatherly (7th rounder) make up one of the best DE trios in the NFL.
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The agony and the ecstasy of Chad Beebe, courtesy of @PAOnTheMic :
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That's my fullback 😤😤😤
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2 years
Christian Darrisaw is currently the highest-graded offensive lineman in the NFL:
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4 years
Falcons @ Vikings gonna be the funniest game all year
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3 years
0-2 after an overtime fumble in enemy territory and a missed 37-yard field goal 😭😭😭
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It's so funny that the Vikings lose a close week 1 game and you think "if they can just not turn the ball over 3 times they could be pretty good!" and then they go and turn the ball over *four* times
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> Sam Darnold won't start this year > Sam Darnold will get benched by the bye > Sam Darnold won't keep this up (YOU ARE HERE) > Sam Darnold won't win MVP > Sam Darnold won't win Super Bowl MVP > Sam Darnold won't win Pennsylvania > I won't name all my kids Samuel/Samantha Darnold
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Pat Shurmur's first TD in 2017: Hurry up offense, trips right, play action boot, RG pulls, flood concept, Diggs wide open for the TD Kevin Stefanski's first TD in 2018: Hurry up offense, trips right, play action boot, RG pulls, flood concept, Diggs wide open for the TD
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