Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss their “hoss fight of the week” between the Lions and Vikings and whether we’ll see the good Sam Darnold or bad Sam Darnold. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on , , or
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The Lions at the Vikings Us Bank Stadium.
It’s an early game.
I’m very fired up for this game.
The Vikings are 1.5 point favorites at home.
Our Hoss fight of the week as well.
There’s some several Hoss fight potentials in this week, but we’re going to go with this one.
It felt right going into this division.
But Charles, when the Vikings offense and your boy, Sam Darold have the football, what are you checking out?
I skimmed through like the Vikings offensive maps versus the Jets that they had in that London game.
And I was like, oh my God, I’m so out on this right now because Sam was awful in that game.
I still believe in the offensive infrastructure.
Ok.
I’m glad you got to that right.
And this is a good offense.
But the last time that I watched this offense, I was like, oh, that’s why you didn’t know, wants Tim Donald to be your starting quarterback because a game like that is possible.
But luckily they have the defense to survive, uh, performances like that, they should still be able to run the ball often.
I still solid.
You still got Justin Jefferson.
So, like you have answers to some of the questions that, uh, that I have after that Jets game.
But man, if that’s gonna be where your quarterback play is, or if that’s like, if, if, let’s say like the top of the season was the peaks of San Ar and then that Jets game was basically the low area of STD Donald and you’re gonna be made in, in the middle.
That’s a little scary to me as far as like long term prognostication goes.
But I against, against the Lions defense, that could go like one of either ways because we’ve had, we’ve seen them have situations where they’re not great, you know, from a down to down perspective.
No, I’m with you that I do think that’s the, I I kind of jinxed it.
I was like, well, we haven’t had the same blow up game yet and there and then he literally those words came out of my mouth and he has the blow up game in London.
I was like, oh, great.
Uh, but like you said that, like if that’s the floor, alright.
Yeah.
Could be worse and he could make some high end plays still, but it’s just that you have to survive the three bad plays.