Future;3215303 said:
I think we are the hottest team in football...but I don't think we have great matchups against the Vikes.
We have two great power interior players to counter Williams brothers. We have an LT who cannot be bullrushed very easily, if at all to counter jarred Allen. We can take advantage of LBs in coverage with Felix (which we need to do more of) and Witten out there. We can flat out abuse their secondary which is a major weakness. I don't think their defense is going to fare well against our offense.
With their offense, we have the 3 really good CBs to counter their 3 WR looks. We also have a front 7 that plays the run really well with safeties and DBs that aren't afraid of contact when going against Peterson.
One other advantage we have is that we didn't have the bye so we are still at full speed. Plus, we knew if we won that we'd be playing against the Vikings. Since we were playing the Eagles back-to-back we probably didn't have to change much of the gameplan - little tweak here and there. But this should have allowed our coaches to peak ahead at the Vikings and start to think about how to attack them. It is kind of like having the best of both worlds. The Vikings really didn't know for sure who they would be playing - could have been any of 3 different teams so they didn't get the same headstart. I bet they looked alot at the Bears/Vikings game a couple weeks ago where Cutler put up darn near 40 points against them.
I really don't see the Vikings beating us. I say we win this game 90% chance at home and 75% on the road.
To me the big mystery is who we will be playing in the NFCC game when we get there but one week at a time.
