I have a lot of comments about this game, so I will start with the Vikings comments.
- QB Favre, he has never been to smart, is not his ability, his ability is his instincts and heart, and a very strong arm. Please do not start trying to change plays in the line or anything else, I know Childress is an idiot but you still have your Offensive Cordinator to be the smartest guy in the mix, and let him coach you.
Favre to me is more a risk than a releif in this game, I will not compare him with Tarvaris, because Is like talking about Quincy Carter and Romo, just useless.
- RB's lets face it, Chester is just not that vital in this game as is Peterson, Taylor is going to try to be a X Factor with some runs and passes in tunexpected plays, not in a basic set of playr where you have him playing for the yards.
Peterson is just a beast, in a good and bad way!, he can bruise, he can do cuts, he can dominate, but also, he can force the ball, and lose the ball. He sure is a playmaker, but I think is not that inspired, he has looked more like somebody who tries to demostrate something than the player who dominates and enjoyed in the past years, sometime looks like Favre anoys him with the pass game and change of plays, just my thoughts, I really think Peterson will not run for more then 105 yards in this game, unless they are winning with a small margin and Childress goes conservative, but I trully doubt it.
- WR's The real playmaker here is the player that is not a receiver, and that is Percy Harvin, yes, he is not a receiver, he is a multitasking player that doesnt fit well running plays in the NFL because he will be crushed, and now with the health problems he has he will never be a pure runner, he has to avoid the big guys and just fight with the secondary. Harvin is great, my favorite player of the Vikings even over Peterson, because you can rely on him. The problem, he is not diferent than Deshean Jackson, even Maclin is like him, but more true Wide Receivers than him, so Cowboys didnt have too much problems with speedy medium size guys, so Berrian and Harvin can be neutralized, so the game goes to Sidney Rice field.
Sidney Rice, I remember him in South Carolina, he looked really fast back in college, in the pros he has good speed but way better size and has developed what he needed, good hands, he is the game changer if you ask me, he has to take the balls favre send him, he is a key player in sundays game, because of his size.
- OL, yes Herrera is shaky, the center just get the job done and McKinnie is a really good player, they have a good OL, but not a dominating one, just ask Childress how worried he was the last games with Favre going down in plays, lets say, we do not have a lot of great things to say about this OL, they are good of course, but nothing that makes us crazy.
- DL. Strong, really strong, they are pretty fast also, specially Jared, the Williamses are really good interior Defenders, I think they are really good, but they will have a really tough matchup, the only one that I think may do and have to do anything is Jared Allen, because he is the playmaker, the other guys are containable.
- LB. Good linebackers, not that agressive, really good technique, the one I think is more agressive is the MLB, but he is also stupid, he is young and will be outplayed but the TE's if needed, he may be a really good player in the future, but need more study of the game to develop his potential, Leber and Greenway are really good cover LB, also great against the run, but they are not playmakers, they need to have the fire in his eyes and they lack that.
- SECONDARY. Winfield is winfield, he is crazy, almost irrational, but great cover and really good hitter, griffin has been the stone without Winfield in the lineup both safeties are suspect to me, they can hit sure, can they tackle? sometimes, not that solid all around, they depend a lot on his Defensive Line to execute, because they are not that strong, neither fast.
As a quote, Winfield is really short, but he is a great player, Sapp is really short, just like Winfield, but dont think he is as good as Winfield is, so that a big factor to me.
COWBOYS COMMENTS:
- QB. Tony Romo is in his best version so far, but we have to remember one thing, he can be riskfull if the pressure is there.
He has been really accurate, is playing instinctively and letting the pressure to all the players not just him, He has been looking way more focused, He has not been smiling all the time, he is not that nervous now, is more focused and for the good of the Viking, they need him to smile since the start, make him dont beleive.
-RB's Sure Barber is touched, but also he is the bruiser, the runner is Felix Jones, Chocie is an intangible, just like Harvin, but lets face it, all this corps are more vertical and well coached. They know what are they there for and they execute that, they do not try to be the heroe, because neither of them is Adrian Peterson and that is a relief in this game, because they will overachieve in every down they do something good or great.
JOnes and Choice can run outside the tackles, and thats what the cowboys need in this game, they also have good hands and no problem of fumbles, and we have to just face it, the Cowboys are really deep and solid in this position, no matter what running back is in the play, everyplay can be a run, and that is a big challenge for all the defenses.
WR's, Miles Austin is the best receiver in this game, no matter what you can argument, he is the best in this game period. Crayton used to be usefull, and he is, but he always looks to fragil, and we have to talk about Williams? he, he is like Sidney Rice but backwards, he used to have great hands and size, now he just have the size and has to improve his confidence and hands. The playmaker here is Miles Austin, because he is big, strong, fast and can run all over the field, it is a mix of a receiver that you will love in every game.
OL, I do not want to talk alot about this, because they are just way better than the Vikings in this, Leonard will take care of the fattest Williams, the question is, Flozell Adams is going to be able to conatin Mr. Allen, well, not all the game, just the run can conatin Jared, hehe
DL, I will not count Ware here, because he is not a linemen, It dont matter if he looks like one, he is a hell of a LB that can bring the heat in the line without a problem. The DL of the Cowboys is good, the Nose Tackle is just insane and the center with Herrera are going to struggle all day long.
LB, Flat out better than the Viking, Ware is a dominant player that can cover anything you ask him, he can bring pressure and cover, Spencer is just like Ware but with a delay of about 0.5 seconds, good enough, Bradie James is the mind along with Brooking. this linebackers are a huge team of players, smart, fast and strong, they also are playmakers, the only one that is not a playmaker is Brooking because he is just thinking in stopping not in the turnover.
Secondary. The Cowboys are 2 man deeper than the Vikings in this place, they are not physical guys, they will go for the tackle and the Turnover first, that may be a problem with physical team, but having in the Vikings speedys boys, I think they can give them a fit, just like they did against the Eagles.
Newman has always been really fast, the problem was technique and hands, stupid penalties also. Jenkins has been surprising, he is not a really big name, but he can play, but also, he is always in the line of a penalty of letting the big play go, Safeties, both solid, fast and really good overall.
If you ask me:
QB.- I will go with Romo, this is just insane I KNOW, but I think Romo is more loose than Favre, Favre has always try to do too much, in this team he has shown us, that he is trying and will be trying too much all this year, no matter freaking what, and at the end, I think He will get burned. Favre really thinks he is the best player in his squad and that hurts him a lot.
WR. Real Receivers, will go with the Cowboys, intangibles, because I think Harvin is key in this matchup as has been in the season, I think the Vikings, so to me they are EVEN, playmakers in both sides, and really tough to cover.
OL. Dallas hands down, Herrera is a big issue in the OL of the vikings and will be a factor in this game.
DL. Vikings, as a DL they are big and nasty, they can play really good football, and they are more, hehehe, so will give them, if you consider Ware in the Line I will take an even matchup (or slightly Dallas), but he is not.
LB. Dallas hands down, more experience, more athleticisim (strange to say it in pros but in this case is tangible), and more agressive, multitasking players.
Secondary. If Winfield can play as he can play, I call this a even matchup or even slightly go with the vikings, he is a hell of a player and Minnesota will miss his 100% kind of game.
In the all around I expect a great game, if the game werent played in Minnesota I would say Cowboys in beach walking, but as the game is played in purple territory I expect a close game, but not a field goal game. And I see Favre trying too much and giving his team the L!, maybe Is just me, but I do not beleive in Favre, he has a ring, but when, now, Even that I do not like Phillips as a coach, I like him as a Defensive Coord, he is great and will do it way better, Childress is a bum and I am waiting for Minnesota to kick his ass out of the team, he is just awful!
Good luck to all of you, just my humble toughts of the game.
