Has there ever been a team that has more embarrassing losses than the Vikes? Atlanta three years ago, Run over by St Louis in the playoffs two years ago, 41-0 last year to the Giants, losing to Carolina to open this year, and now this! Denny has lost control of this team. He has a D coordinator who doens't even coordinate, he takes over the play calling from Sherm Lewis when things are going bad, and has absolutely no ability to adjust during a game. He is a good evaluator of talent, but a horrible game coach. I am sick of watching this BS every year.

-- the jim (thewitts1@home.com), October 28, 2001

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Oh boy, what a meltdown! The following from PurpleHaze:

Embarrassing

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have handed us an ass whooping of the worst kind beating us 41-14 today.

The Bucs beat us every way we could be beaten. They beat us on the ground, they beat us through the air and they destroyed us defensively.

At half time alone they held a huge 297 to 44 in net yards alone and a 20 to 0 edge in first downs. We didn’t even have a first down until Carter caught the only long ball of the game five minutes into the second half. We finished with 197 net yards for the game and had the ball 16 minutes less then the Bucs! We sucked today and there is no excuse.

This game deserves no special mention for anything. Maybe Culpepper getting his nose broke is something, but it really doesn’t matter. Maybe the fact that we were totally unprepared and looked like a high school team trying to compete in the NFL should be mentioned, but it really doesn’t matter either. The bottom line is we sucked today and now we have to win out if we want to have a chance at the playoffs.

Come on Denny get the fire back in our players!

-- Jan Zumbo (dvt99@aol.com), October 29, 2001.

Glad I missed this one. How can a team look so good one week and then play like this? We shut down Favre and the Pukes and get our asses handed to us by one of the worst offensive teams in the league. Has to come down to coaching. The whole staff not just Denny. DISGUSTING!!!!

-- Tom (BMatheus@aol.com), October 29, 2001.

I was there and it was horrible. :-( Never again will I subject myself to that humiliation again.

-- Deb Cross (debcross2000@earthlink.net), November 02, 2001.