What Did We Learn Moday Night?

The defense kept us in the entire game. It is obvious that the Vikes have a Super Bowl caliber defense. With the ACL injury to CB Cedric Griffin. It will be interesting to see who will be filling that role the best. My bet will be Sanford or Cook.

Now if the offense mainly the QB could be playing at the same level as the defense the Vikes would be in great shape. The way that Favre played in the 2.5 quarter was horrendous. He could not hit the open receiver. So far in the season that had so much promise for the Vikes has been nothing, but heartbreak.He missed MULTIPLE open receivers throughout the game. There is a reason, why he has one of his worst passing percent game even in his career.   


The Vikes have  all the weapons in Moss, Harvin and of course Peterson the run with the big boys. The question is can Favre use all the weapon instead to overshooting the receiver. That will remain to be seen. 

Can the Vikes get over the hump and not lose another close game next week against the Cowboys @home?

Lito Losing Ground

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It looks like Sheppard has indeed lost a step or two in the corner back battle. The battle is between Sheppard and Asher Allen. As of right now, Allen is the starting CB on the left side. This is due to a knee injury that starting CB Cedric Griffin sustain in the NFC Championship game.

Asher Allen is taking this first depth chart as a grain of salt. He may be impressing the coaches right now, but he cannot keep his guard down. This fight is not even close to being over as of yet.

Lito came to Minnesota to have the best chance to start and bring veteran experience to a secondary that has not been the Vikes strong suite in the past years.Everyone figured that Lito would fill in while Griffin was out with his injury.

It will be something to see how each player performs in the preseason games. It sounds like both player have and will get the same amount of reps with 1dt and 2nd team defenses.

If anyone has any thoughts of this depth chart give a shout out.

Cornerback gets extended

The Vikings have given Cedric Griffin a contract extension.The Vikes do avoid having him as a free agent next season. He was reliable in the second half of the season. Griffin says he is happy where the team is headed. As long as he continues to improve on his play at the corner. There were many mocks saying that the corner back position was a team need for this years draft. In 2008, Griffin led the Vikings' secondary and ranked second on the team in tackles with 100. He had one interception in the regular season and one in the wild-card playoff loss to Philadelphia.

I am just not quite sure about this signing at this moment. He is a decent CB at the tackling aspect of the game. Now this season, we hope that he can be reliable to preventing receivers snagging the ball over his head.
What do you think about the contract extension that is believed to be 3 years?