Minnesota Sports

Week three of the preseason, which should be the final week, is over.  The Vikes won, but you knew that already.

A few concerns for this team, but first, gotta mention the dominant defense.  The matchup between the Vikes first-team defense and the Ravens starters on offense was totally unfair.  The Ravens never really got anything going, and were completely controlled by the d-line.

Pat Williams and Keneche Udeze were all over the place.  And that's gotta be the first time since the beginning of this blog that Keneche played well enough to get mentioned here.  Hopefully it's not the last time.

Liked the play from the linebackers as well...they played well enough for Steve McNair to call them "great."  I wouldn't go that far, but they played a fine game.

Now the concerns...the offensive line still isn't coming together as Childress and Company would probably have liked.  I say this because it seems like Chester Taylor is only getting 2-3 yards per carry on each attempt.  That's Chester's fault as well, but the offensive line definitely needs to make more progress.

McMahon played better than before, but definitely didn't show enough to take the backup job away from Tarvaris.  It's clear that Tarvaris will be the week one backup...and McMahon still isn't giving the Vikings any reason to keep him.

Don't really have anything else to say about that game...overall, last week was another positive for the Vikes.  Things are really shaping up on defense, but there's definitely still some issues on offense to be worked out.

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