Great Day For Minnesota Sports

Tyler Duffy has turned out to be quite a gem for the Twins. He doesn't have arm problems, but he's young, so the Twins hesitate to give him any more innings this year. It's just that he's our best pitcher right now, and he's one of the main reasons we still have a chance for the last wildcard slot.

Yesterday: 7 shutout innings. That he got some runs support from vets like Mauer and Hunter was great.  We managed to pull back ahead of the Angels for that last slot BUT we're still far enough behind Houston to worry about the time factor. Losing 5 straight has put us in an awful hole.

I'm still watching.

The Vikings looked like a totally different team yesterday. We're all happy about that. Primarily our defense was just incredible. Matthew Stafford was treated like a WWE jobber. He hit the turf time and time again. His only real success were the last-second drives he manufactured before the half and before the end of the game.

The offensive line looked reborn as well. They protected Teddy wonderfully. They even gave the fumble-fingered Peterson holes so large that even he couldn't screw it up...until he fumbled of course.

Officially he fumbled twice and he recovered one of those himself, but the only reason he didn't fumble three times was because a defensive penalty occurred away form the ball. Make no mistake about it. Adrian IS NOT BACK. He should just be happy he didn't cost the Vikings the game. And he should also be happy that his line gave him so much support.

He better fix his fumble-itis fast and consider himself very lucky.

Walsh missed another extra point yesterday which didn't really come into play (except it added drama to the end of the game when the Vikings had a 16 point lead instead of 17.) That one extra point made the ending more tense than it needed to be. At least he made both field goals.

Grades?

Defense A+
Offensive Line A
Teddy A
Peterson C+ (The yards were nice, but those fumbles are killer. In ANY other game, they would have been a big deal.)

The Vikings were clearly much better than the Lions yesterday.

And my other favorite team? Aaron Rodgers had a great fourth quarter. And now my least favorite team starts the year 0-2.

Go Vikings. Go Packers. And Go Twins!!!!