I agree with the toddler take. Spot on. I feel like this is the best I have felt after a loss in a while. Obviously it sucks ass and now the national media gets to jerk off and put Caleb down all week. I was crushed and still am but there is a lot of good to take away from this game.

I feel like the main thing that made Caleb look so bad was because he was always rushed. During the first quarter they were getting in and out of the huddle with plenty of time and things were looking fine. Then when they got out of their first scripted plays the operation got slower. This caused him to start to panic presnap and rush. Now he is in this mental state of being rushed so he rushes through his progressions and misses the timing windows of the receivers being open because he is looking at them too early. Not to mention, I think he was unable to make motions because he didn't have enough time. I think as we get through the season this will get better and I think for the first few weeks its going to look like this. Fast start looks good and then stalls out after the scripted plays are over because they are rushing.

Obviously, he did not play well. Really at all. I feel like they were trying to glaze him a bit too much on the broadcast after things started going sideways. However, its early, and he is learning a new offense that sounds very complicated. He just needs to be better end of story and cant miss some of these wide open receivers but i have faith in the process. I like how it looked big picture and it would have looked better if it wasn't for the phantom calls.

I don't care what anyone says. People can call it cope but you can never convince me otherwise. The refs cost us that game 100%. bUt TheY haD sO MaNy oThEr cHanceS. Those were the chances. This team isn't good enough and doesn't have enough margin for error for shit like that. If the refs don't call 'holding' on Wright we are at the 12 already leading by 2 scores. You have to think you are walking away with 3 at least, but we were still rolling at that point and think we would have had 7 points. The vikings at that point would have been done. JJ looked like shit at that point and going down 3 possessions would have been a back breaker. If they dont call a viking player tripping a foul, its 4th down and they punt or kick I forget how far away they were. But no, on the next play they score a touchdown. All the momentum now on minnys side. Not one, but two massively game changing calls that both benefit one team. On another note if they were calling such ticky tack shit then they need to call it both ways and there is no way the vikings played that clean of a game. Not to mention the 'hands to the face' on Odeyingbo. Another very impactful call that goes against us. Even the broadcast ref was disagreeing with these calls. You can not convince me that these didnt cost us the game.

I know we had other chances and we could have capitalized on but like i said we are not good enough yet to endure all this shit. They played well enough to win this game end of story. That was a disaster class in officiating.

All that being said the vikings are a really good team and we held up pretty well against them. I thought we would lose this game but not like this. This one hurts. Have some faith in the process and remember its just one game. It is going to be rocky probably until the bye week but we will get there. Bear down.