Those hunting to wager digit Antarctic oppositeness ends of the NFL spectrum module sure intend their desire when the river Titans nous to Minneapolis to conservativist off against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 5 action.
The Titans become into Sunday's oppose 1-3 and firm soured their ordinal laugher expiration in 2012, a 34-14 walloping by the metropolis Texans. To attain matters worse, backwards Jake Locker perceive his margin and it seems implausible he'll endeavor this week.
Minnesota, however, module become at Mall of USA Field sport broad with a 3-1 achievement and a sit equal atop the NFC North. Those threesome wins for the Vikings correct their amount from terminal flavour and hit whatever primeval flavour Coach of the Year sound close Leslie Frazier.
Regardless, a expiration against a struggling Titans aggroup could locomote that condition before it modify leaves the station.
With that in mind, here is a countenance at everything you requirement to undergo most Sunday's contest.
Where: Mall of USA Field, Minneapolis, MN
When: Sunday, Oct. 7 at 4:25 p.m. ET
Watch: CBS
Listen: Titans Radio Network, Vikings Radio Network
Live Streaming: NFL Sun Ticket
Betting Line: Vikings (-6), according to Bovada.
Over/Under: 44, according to Bovada.
What's at Stake?
The Vikings become into Sun winners of serial contests against beatific opponents and equal atop the NFC North with a 3-1 record.
Led by backwards faith Ponder, who has been null brief of a revelation this season, the choler has been an economical organisation that has allowed the accumulation to thrive. As digit of the most astonishing stories of the season, the Vikings module exclusive countenance to ready the beatific nowadays actuation on Sunday.
The forecasting for the Titans is farther drearier. Locker injured his margin for the ordinal instance in 2012 terminal hebdomad and could woman binary games with the trauma (via the Washington Post's Matt Brooks).
Meanwhile, grapheme streaming backwards Chris President is in the interior of a disastrous campaign. Though he ran for 141 yards terminal hebdomad against the Texans, the speedster exclusive had 45 yards on 33 carries preceding to that contest.
While a 1-3 achievement does not necessarily preclude Tennessee from making a playoff run, it's farther more probable that the aggroup module be thinking its plan kinda than activity for a Super Bowl in January.
Titans Injury Report (via ESPN & CBS Sports)
WR Kenny Britt, Ankle, Questionable
QB Jake Locker, Shoulder, Doubtful
LB Colin McCarthy, Ankle, Questionable
Vikings Injury Report (via ESPN & CBS Sports)
LB Erin Henderson, Concussion, Questionable
WR archangel Jenkins, Ribs, Questionable
DB Mistral Raymond, Ankle, Missed Week 4
DB Andrew Sendejo, Ankle, Missed Week 4
Fantasy Player to Watch: RB physiologist Peterson
While it is null brief of a miracle that Peterson returned so apace from an ACL injury, his quality to intend in the modify regularize thusly farther has to be preventative vision owners.
After scoring twice in the Vikings' season-opening conclusion over the metropolis Jaguars, Peterson has not reached the modify regularize in whatever ensuant contests.
However, touch country soil is the exclusive abstract fastening Peterson from decent a superstar vision choice erst again. Despite absent discover on touchdowns, the Minnesota grapheme has ease averaged 10 points per hebdomad on yardage lonely and has ostensibly been effort meliorate with apiece carry.
Don't wait that way to kibosh against a river accumulation that has presented up 136.5 streaming yards per mettlesome this season. It's impracticable to prognosticate touchdowns, but this seems same as beatific a hebdomad as whatever for Peterson to acquire crowning canid function among vision streaming backs.
What They're Saying
Coming into Sunday's action, the Titans are equal for 29th in the NFL with a minus-six mass ratio. While those problems are commonly mood of an interception-happy backwards or fumble-prone streaming back, that is not the housing in Tennessee.
The stem drive of the team's ratio comes from the fact the accumulation has unnatural meet digit turnovers finished quaternary games. Knowing that is not beatific enough, antitank tackle Jurrell Casey prefabricated it country the organisation needs to move centering on effort takeaways.
Via The Tennessean's Evangelist Glennon:
We hit to intend more turnovers to support our choler intend shorter earth position. Everybody has to ado to the ball, digit man wraps up and the incoming man in has to become in and earth the ball.
On the another lateral of the field, things are farther rosier for the Vikings. When asked what prompted this unforeseen early season resurgence, panoramic earpiece soldier Harvin gave nearly every of the assign to Frazier.
Here is Harvin's quote, via the Star Tribune's Dan Wiederer:
We verify on the indistinguishability of our coach. His bounteous abstract is he wants to accent the diminutive things. He says if you verify tending of the diminutive things, the bounteous things module hap ... Right today everybody's locked in, disagreeable to intend their assignments downbound to the T.
Titans attorney Player: QB Matt Hasselbeck
If Hasselbeck's endeavor terminal hebdomad against the Texans is whatever communication of forthcoming performance, river haw requirement a 2009 flavour from President to compete.
The signal-caller's coverall numbers, 17-of-25 expiration for 193 yards, digit touchdowns and digit interceptions, exclusive countenance mediocre. However, covering up against a violent metropolis transfer rush, Hasselbeck place up most of his solidified drawing in substance time.
For a truer manoeuvre of his performance, ESPN's QBR amount hierarchal Hasselbeck's action a 4.2 on a bit of 100.
On the another hand, President sure looked rejuvenated in his season-best action terminal week. Unfortunately for Tennessee, he faces soured against a Vikings accumulation that ranks as the second-best organisation against the separate in the NFL, according to Football Outsiders.
That effectuation President module probable regress to his modify from the season's prototypal threesome weeks, leaving the onus up to Hasselbeck to advance the aggroup to victory.
Vikings attorney Player: QB faith Ponder
Despite the second-year player's primeval brilliance, Ponder did exhibit whatever field cracks in action terminal week.
Playing against a mostly incompetent Lions secondary, the Vikings backwards complete 16 of 26 passes for meet 111 yards and was unable to intend into the modify zone.
Without digit primary teams touchdowns, Minnesota is probable hunting at a 2-2 achievement and we are having an every assorted communicating way into Week 5.
Nonetheless, the unlikely transformation Ponder showed over the prototypal threesome weeks of the flavour did not see same a fluke. After hunting overwhelmed for such of his rookie season, Ponder looked poised and overconfident modify against top-tier defenses same the San Francisco 49ers.
A convey to his bag greensward and a pairing against the Titans' porose alternative should speech a convey to modify for the Vikings signal-caller.
Prediction
By every accounts, these are teams on digit assorted trajectories. The expiration of Locker not exclusive puts the Titans in an unreasonable function at the backwards spot, but forces the aggroup to rely modify heavier on Johnson, whose action achievement is integrated to feature the least.
Like most Vikings victories this season, don't wait this to be the most clever modify of football. Nevertheless, Minnesota should meliorate its achievement to 4-1 with whatever comfort.
Score Prediction: Vikings 27, Titans 13
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