Why the Purple Suck

Okay. It's a laundry list of things that bug me...so bare with me:

1) Playcalling/Chilly
This is the obvious #1 choice. Chilly comes out with his master game plan that we had been implementing the last 3 years with the like of TJack, Gus, Brad, etc. at QB. I thought this was a thing of the past, but I guess not. Chilly continues to believe that we can run the ball at will and we WILL do it in the 1st half. He needs to realize the OL isn't good and we are not a running team this season. The only chance we have to run is when we open things up and throw all over the place to set up the run. Good coaches realize things like this...Belichick vs. the Purple on MNF a couple years ago comes to mind. I will continue to go with the angle that Chilly is not a good coach and will never take this team anywhere. A team takes on the personality of its coach...and for us this is a scary fact.

2) OL Play
This has been very bad as of late, and really not super duper all year long. Why? McKinnie is overrated, Herrera - despite all the BS PA spews about being such a great run blocker - looks like he's overmatched each week. Loadholt is a rookie, Sullivan is playing for the 1st time, and Hutch is a rock star. I guess we probably shouldn't have expected much more out of this group in 2009, but they seem to have more bad plays than good ones.

3) DL
Don't we have 3 Pro Bowl DL? Do any of them play anymore? Allen does nothing against anyone but the Pack. KWill might be the most overrated player I've seen in quite some time - seriously, does he ever make a play anymore? I know the whole "doubled and tripled on every play" arguement, but it didn't look like it last night. He got owned by a couple of no-namers in the middle of the Bears line. Fat Pat was out, and he's almost 40 years old too...he's close to being done. Sack tracker is a joke. He shows up 2-3 games per year.

4) DBACKS
When did Winfield start to look overmatched and old? He got torched multiple times last night. I heard the arguement this morning that his ankle isn't right yet...well don't play then! If you can cover Aromasadushamnsu then you shouldn't be a starting CB in the NFL right now. Don't tough it out if you're not healthy - let's find a guy that can step up and fill in. Safety play is maybe the worst in the league. I actually saw a TyJohnson pass break-up last night...that's 1 this year, nice job TJ! Madieu gets plowed over by Cutler and hasn't been able to tackle all season - nice investment there. I think we need at least 1 but maybe 2 new starters at S next season.

5) SPT
Nice coverage unit last night. Remember when getting Heath Farwell back was going to bring our coverage units back to being a strong point? He looked good chansing DManning all over the field last night on our 20-30 yard line! We get an XP blocked, ridiculous. That was the game winner. Kluwe mis-hits another one for like 8 yards. Why can't we kick it any deeper than the 20 yard line on kickoffs?

6) AD
I love Adrian, but god damnit he has to stop fumbling! It was a great defensive play, but seriously most fumble in the league the L3Y by far...not acceptable.

So besides that, we're golden. If you can't beat the NYG next week at home then you should pull a ND and politely decline your playoff invitation. As long as Chilly is running this progrum I don't think we can win A PLAYOFF GAME, much less many playoff games and a Super Bowl.

I'm feeling really confident that we'll be playing during wild card weekend, likely DAL at the dome. Lose that one and start the Favre drama again...yippeee!

Sorry to be so negative, but this last month has been just stupid. Is it bad that I'm looking forward to watching the Insight Bowl waaaaayyyyy more than any kind of Viking "playoff" action?