How Will Favre Respond
Coming off Favre's worst game this season as a Minnesota Viking last week against the Arizona Cardinals. This week is not going to be an easy task by any means for Favre and the passing offense. The Bengals have one of the best CB tandems in the league in Jonathan Joseph and Leon Hall. With the receiving corps that the Vikings have. it is going to be match-up that is going to highly anticipated this week. The Viking have so many weapons and find different ways to get their receivers the football, depending how the Bengals respond is going to be the key of the game.Containing Cedric
The Vikings will be need to stop the Bengals 6th ranked rushing offense this season in the NFL. The Vikings stopping Cedric Benson is going to be key for this defense. The Minnesota Vikings are 3rd in the league in rush defense. With Williams Wall along with Edwards and Allen on the edges. If the Vikes will be able to stop the Bengals ground attack, then it will force Carson Palmer to beat the Vikings. The Bengals are 21st in passing offense and the Viking pass defense are 21st in the league as well. It sure is going to be interesting to see if the Vikes can get a pass rush. The Bengals OL has given up ONLY 22 sacks this season on 365 dropbacks and that was about 6% of each dropback ends in a sack. Jared Allen and Company will need to disrupt every aspect of the Bengals game plan on offense to win this one.
With this game will be depend on which ground game will out perform the other. It is going be a good match-up in the Thunderdome on Sunday.After this game the Vikes get da Bears.
Where has Adrian Gone?
With Vikings All-Pro running back struggling immensely the past 3 weeks with an average of a measly 3 yards a carry. Is it that the play calling is to blame? With the Vikes abandoning the run last week was a poor decision by the Chilly last week. The 11th ranked rush offense will need to get the chains move early and often averaging 123 yards per game. This will going against a Bengals rush defense that is ranked 2nd in the league allowing 81 yards per contest. So which side will win the epic battle in the trenches? Whomever wins this battle will decide whether Favre will have a good game or bad game. Peterson will need to get back to his old smash mouth running this week, Run Adrian Run.With this game will be depend on which ground game will out perform the other. It is going be a good match-up in the Thunderdome on Sunday.After this game the Vikes get da Bears.
The Prediction:
Vikes 24
Bengals 17
SKOL VIKINGS
Vikes 24
Bengals 17
SKOL VIKINGS
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