I Believe Prescott was the better selection due to the importance of the position he plays. Defensive ends Everson Griffen and Danielle Hunter are doing an excellent job of generating pressure on opposing quarterbacks, alongside 10-year veteran Brian Robison (the three have combined for 18.5 sacks). Whether the Vikings can limit the Cowboy’s offense will be a big indicator of Minnesota’s success or failure. Have thoughts on how the Cowboys and Vikings are performing?
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The Packers got a third-round draft choice for a then-39-year-old Brett Favre when they traded him to the Jets in 2008, but Favre had never missed a game. With Mike Priefer taking over for the moment the Vikings find themselves in a peculiar situation.
“I hate watching”, Diggs said of missing the Thanksgiving Day game. In order to do that the defense needs to stop the Cowboys from getting touchdowns. But that was all before Dallas had running back Ezekiel Elliott, the rookie phenom who dominates games and leads the league with 1,199 yards rushing.
“What they did made flawless sense since because then you’d be asking (a coordinator) to also manage the sidelines with injuries and with the special teams, the offense and the defense, and all that goes on”, Gannon said. Will that game plan work against the Vikings? The number associated with this statistic represents the number of points on the field a quarterback contributes over the course of the season, beyond what would be expected of an average quarterback (one with a QBR of 50) with the same number of plays. It will be very hard for the Vikings to win a shoot-out.
“They’re really, really good”.
A victory here would clearly mean more to Minnesota than Dallas, but it doesn’t seem likely. The question is who is going to step up.
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They say mom is always right, but Dallas Cowboys rookie quarterback Dak Prescott has built a strong case for all of the “daddies”. The Vikings are hungrier, so they just might pull away for a narrow win. Vikings are 5-7 against the Cowboys at home in the regular season, but this is the first meeting at new U.S. Bank Stadium. After the Cowboys, the Vikings don’t play another team with a winning record for the rest of the season, and have games against the Jaguars and Bears. The Vikings played a video clip of Zimmer encouraging the team during training camp with a get-well-soon message on the scoreboard prior to kickoff. They sit in 2nd place of the North Division behind first-place Detroit at 6-5. But it all starts tonight. The Cowboys, on the other hand, have won 10 in a row since losing to the New York Giants in Week 1, posting a 9-1 ATS count during that stretch. A win increases their playoff chances from 38 to 59 percent.
