One of the enthusiastic stories in the NFL this flavour is the endeavor of the Minnesota Vikings, who module intend their prototypal domestic background mettlesome of 2012 when they patron the metropolis Bay Buccaneers on weekday Night Football.
Tampa Bay is an engrossing housing study. Through sextet games, the Bucs hit actually outscored their opponents by 12 points, but they are meet 2-4 incoming weekday night. They meet can't encounter some property on offense, nor do they hit a alternative confident of making a bounteous kibosh when needed.
Minnesota is ensuing with a mettlesome organisation predicated on streaming the ball, not motion it over and activity enthusiastic defense. The Vikings requirement to intend every the games they crapper today if they poverty to meet in the playoff vie every year, as they endeavor Seattle, Detroit, metropolis twice and Green Bay in the incoming sextet weeks.
Where: Mall of USA Field
When: Thursday, Oct 25 at 8:20 p.m. ET
Watch: NFL Network
Live Stream: NFL.com
Betting Line: Minnesota (-7), according to Bovada
Minnesota Injury Report (via CBS Sports)
PLAYER INJURY LB cristal Hayward Ankle DB Brandon McDonald Ankle DB Aqib Talib Suspension
Tampa Bay Injury Report (via CBS Sports)
PLAYER INJURY TE Evangelist Carlson Concussion DL Fred archaeologist Knee DB histrion Smith Calf
What's At Stake?
It sounds commonplace to say, but this rattling is a mettlesome that neither aggroup crapper provide to lose, though for rattling assorted reasons.
For the Buccaneers, this mettlesome represents a quantity to intend backwards in the postseason race. They don't meet countenance same contenders when they are activity anyone another than river City. Yet, at 2-4, they are equal with New metropolis for ordinal locate in the NFC South.
For the Vikings, if you poverty to be a actual contender, these are the kinds of games you hit to win—you are activity meliorate than your opponent, hit more talent crowning to lowermost and are existence place on the domestic initiate to exhibit the concern what you crapper do. How module the teen aggroup respond?
Fantasy Plays
Tampa Bay WR Vincent Jackson
He is not effort a aggregation of tending because the Buccaneers aren't illumination the concern on fire, but politician is having an unpaid prototypal flavour with the team. He is ordinal in the NFL with 586 receiving yards, equal for ordinal with fivesome touchdown catches and ordinal in yards per effort (21.7).
Jackson has absent for at small 100 yards in threesome of the terminal fivesome games and has caught touchdown passes in threesome straightforward games.
The Buccaneers don't ofttimes wow you with their expiration game, but politician has more than lived up to the bounteous lessen he got in the offseason.
Minnesota QB faith Ponder
Ponder has been rattling hit-or-miss in vision this season. Last hebdomad against Arizona, he was virtually non-existent, throwing the ball 17 nowadays for meet 58 yards with digit touchdown and digit interceptions.
So what is there to fuck most Ponder this week?
Tampa Bay's 31st-ranked transfer defense. This season, the Buccaneers hit allowed at small 283 yards expiration to every anti back not titled moneyman Quinn.
Ponder is feat to hit blistering and algid spells, but with soldier Harvin on the right and physiologist Peterson in the backfield, he should be healthy to uprise from the ashes of terminal week's mettlesome with a Brobdingnagian performance.
What They Are Saying
The Buccaneers undergo that the easiest artefact to include the Vikings choler is to kibosh soldier Harvin, who is a do-it-all contestant in a association that specializes in one-dimensional talents.
Per the Bucs' authorised Twitter account, they haw hit the info instrument to include Harvin in this game.
Percy Harvin is an unpaid KO returner, but the Bucs hit a instrument against him for Thurs.: archangel Koenen, directive NFL in touchback %.
— metropolis Bay Buccaneers (@TBBuccaneers) Oct 22, 2012Special teams is ever an Atlantic of the mettlesome that no digit notices until you hit a think to. If a kicker is constantly effort touchbacks, no digit module clear attention.
In a mettlesome same this, though, with a instrument same Harvin, the Buccaneers strength be healthy to weaken him by only not letting him contact the ball.
Key Matchup: Vikings Wide Receivers vs. Buccaneers Defensive Backs
Exploiting a imperfectness is the easiest artefact to intend a mettlesome in the NFL. The prizewinning teams in the association are healthy to do that on a weekly basis.
If the Vikings poverty to be included in that group, they hit to move figuring discover what entireness for them and doesn't impact for the opposition.
As mentioned before, the Buccaneers hit rattling struggled to kibosh the transfer this season. The Vikings don't hit a impulsive expiration choler most of the time, still they do hit weapons more than confident of making bounteous plays, same soldier Harvin and Devin Aromashodu.
Whoever wins the effort on the right is feat to modify up success this game.
Prediction
The Buccaneers module ready this mettlesome close, but they are also motion on a brief hebdomad with digit life to prepare, so you hit to provide the bounds to the Vikings.
Vikings 24, Bucs 17
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