Patrick Peterson reacts to Vikings firing defensive cord.Ed

A long video for PP to essentially just dance around having to say, “Our pass rush sucked and Ed never adjusted.”

PP tries to clumsily say that it was all just because our pass rush was just so good that teams “finally realized it” (this doesn’t take half a season; more like half a game where adjustments by good or even decent coaches are made immediately) and started chipping our DEs.

So…an extremely basic, well understood and often deployed pass blocking scheme was used by opponents and that was it for us? It’s just completely impossible for our defense to be effective once teams “learned” to chip our DEs?

That’s amazing! I can’t believe none of the top 10 defenses in the league were ever chipped. We should hold onto this golden nugget of competitive advantage insight for next season so we too can dominate everyone.

didn't help that Sullivan, Kendricks, Hicks and Bynum couldn't cover me.  So multiple check down options were ALWAYS open so the pass rush has no chance to get home.  

But PP isn't going to say that because he has some class.  

I'm surprised to see you use player personnel as a reason for the defensive problems, given that you're the person on here most likely to make positive comments about even the worst Viking players.

I think PP has a valid point. 

First 10 weeks of the season we had 2+ sacks in every game except the Bears and the Lions and we went 8-1, and until the last game of that stretch, the Bills, scored thirty, no other team had scored more than 26 points against us. Za'Darius Smith got NINE of his 10 sacks for the season in those weeks, before getting injured. 

The last 8 weeks of the season, with Z injured, we got decent sacks in only two games -- the record comeback game against the Colts and against the Giants -- went 5-3, and gave up 26+ points in five of the games. 

"The Eagles and Chiefs ranked 1-2 in sacks during the regular season, with Philly recording 70 quarterback takedowns, and Kansas City registering 55."