Vikings Post-game Thread

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

One thing about the Ridgeway penalty, I haven't read anything about it, but I can't think he went free lance and decided to do this stunt on his own. Like he was aligned on the right side of the center and went all the way to his left right ? That's playcall. I understand he's not supposed to hit the center on this play, but how do you have a rookie run this very risky move at this point in the game ? That's asking for trouble...

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You don't. And RR's post-game reaction tells me that Ridgeway was coached to do it that way. If you look at the extra point before that FG try where the penalty was called, he did the same thing on that play too. It's a clear penalty, so basically they are coaching him the wrong way to rush on the extra point / FG try. There's only a couple ways to get a penalty on the FG or extra point try...you jump offsides, you run into the kicker, or you do what Ridgeway did. It's unacceptable really. Every arm chair NFL Coach knows you can't do that, so why are they coaching it that way?

It's not the reason they lost the game, but it didn't help, and there's no excuse for it. You wouldn't see a Jim Harbaugh coached team do that...or almost any other team in the NFL for that matter.