What some of you fail to realize here is that when a team gets a double digit or multiple score possession lead in the second half, particularly in the 4th quater, they go into prevent defense. They back way off, and allow the opposition to move the ball in front of them, one first down at a time. The idea behind this is that it eats up clock. Rather than getting beat deep on one or two big plays. Its like slowly bleeding out but you still survive at the end.
I would argue the only points the Packers scored yesterday was when 1) the Vikings turned it over, and 2) in garbage time when it was 27-10 with 6 mins left in prevent defense mode. Outside of those, they put up a whopping 3 points.
This scenario has played out several times this season with the Vikings, including the week before against the Seahawks too. Up 17-7, go into prevent defense mode. Seattle works their way back into the game.
Every team in the entire NFL does it. Its not something one or two teams do. They all do it. I don’t particularly care for it, but if you think the Packers walked up and down the field to make it a close game, you didn’t see the same defense I saw from the Vikings when they were not in prevent mode late.
Well said.
The other is running the ball to eat the clock. The Pack defense played a good game against the run all game. Why run the ball to eat clock when they know you are going to run the ball to eat the clock. KOC definitely had an aggressive play strategy for late in the game. The only mistake I seen made was the forced throw and an INT.
Before that INT I told my wife. If the Vike’s can march down the field and score the game is over. A few seconds later they throw the INT.
