Minnesota Vikings vs Detroit Lions | Week 9 Game Preview

Minnesota Vikings vs Detroit Lions | Week 9 Game Preview

Detroit Lions at home nice and rested up for the second half of their season facing off with the Minnesota Vikings for the first time this year. The Vikes back from Hollywood. Week eight sort of started like week seven ended, right, Skull? And that pass is picked off. Rogers, no stranger to interceptions. Gets another one. Touchdown. Have to review. They’re really going to feel an incomplete pass. Third down. Karen apparently followed Minnesota to LA. I know the Vikings failed on several fronts versus the Chargers in their week eight loss, but the butterfly effect can be real. Ask Ashton Kutcher. Either way, calling JJ McCarthy cuz Carson left Vikes fans wincing all game last week. He was doing plenty of that himself, too, as he got beat up pretty good. 144 yards, only one touchdown, one pick, a 67 rate. It wasn’t pretty. Went fires too high. Picked off. McCarthy’s two starts didn’t wow many folks. Only a couple of good quarters, but he’s supposed to be the man. Maybe he improves. An offense that only mustered 10 points, went three for 10 on third down, only made it past the Chargers 20 once. Third and eight. Digging deep, right? And as he throws, that pass is incomplete. And it’s very rapid three and out. That’s under 23 points in four straight games, five of their last six. So only over that mark twice this year. Unfortunately for McCarthy, even though it’s late October, it ain’t cold in the D right now. Despite lots of their DBs spending lots of time in the blue tent with Turk and JD, their defense is plenty warm, holding teams to 21 a game. Balled out before the break versus Tampa Bay and a very hot Baker, holding them to nine points, top five in takeaways for 2025. End zone incomplete and what a job by this Lions defense. McCarthy getting in the tub with a Detroit secondary holding quarterbacks to a respectable 90 rate and just 6.8 yards per attempt despite having to dig deep to find healthy corners. This time it’s Nick Whiteside again, but it they’ve all had their turns at making plays when they’ve had to. In two games, McCarthy took nine sacks. Wentz took five versus LA, missing three starting O linemen by the time the game ended. Left tackle Christian Darasaw left hurt. Backup left tackle Justin Skule gave up two sacks in relief. Has given up six overall and he hasn’t played full time. Wench goes down at the 33 yd line. Rough night for Carson on every level. So don’t be surprised if Aiden Hutchinson lines up across from him a lot. Half a dozen QB takedowns and he’s getting help as Detroit has a healthy pressure rate. 23 sacks was third most when they took their week off. Backpedals can’t find anywhere to go except down. sacked on the play. The OG JJ, the only Vikes pass catcher with more than 26 receiving yards last week. Jordan Addison and TJ Hawinson with that exact amount. Kid Dino might 74 yards. So Justin Jefferson with 70 plus and six straight now. Wentz gets it away. Caught up at the 32 yd line. Justin Jefferson. Aaron Jones came back to to it, but he never got it lit as he only ran five times. Jordan Mason only four. The team only 11 rush attempts after getting down early. And the Lions also have fared well versus backs, keeping the position to four a run. Jack Campbell with a hefty 64 tackles through seven games. Baker Mayfield dealing with the crowd noise as Rashad White bends it back and gets two. Vikings defense with just as much to fix. Got off on the wrong foot with that Isaiah Rogers call. All kind of went downhill from there. Gave up a season high 37 points. let LA convert nine of 13 third down chances, three of four red zone chances. Herbert rolling, looking, throwing, and that’s going to be caught for the touchdown. Secondary gave up three touchdowns to Justin Herbert. Not a ton of yards, but a rate over 120, over nine yards per attempt allowed. 18 for 25 passing. Going for it. Oh, out in front. Holden. They were already giving up a rate over a 100 before that game, too. And now here comes Jared Goff. Four 100 plus rate games, seven plus yards per attempt, five of seven games, 15 touchdowns, just three INTs, a fat eight yards per attempt, hit his week off with the highest rate in the NFL. Golf over the middle. He’s got St. Brown and he’s got a touchdown. Detroit’s Oace, aside from 17 and 13 point showings versus Green Bay and Kansas City, good for 24 to 52 in their other five games. 30 points per game for 2025. Only a few have cracked 30. Elite when they reach the red zone. Spinning touchdown. Goff has been a little susceptible to being reached at home in their most recent games. Four sacks taken, two of their last three. Left tackle Taylor Decker a team high three and a half sacks allowed in his five games played. That’s a fumble. Still, Goff hasn’t faced a ton of pressure. Has only taken 13 sacks total, so plenty of games with good pass protection. Vikings with two sacks of Herbert. Jonathan Grard with one. They at least hit him eight times. 25 pass attempts. Herbert dancing away and he gets sacked from behind. Purple secondary gave up 88 yds and a touchdown to Lad McConi last week. 77 in a TD to Aronda Gadson. Now they have to try and slow Mr. Headstand. You’d think with people replicating it with farm crops and cakes, we’d see it more often. A Monro St. Brown 70 to 115 yds, five of seven games, six to nine catches the last six straight. Here is wide open St. Brown and another huge chunk play as Aman Ross. St. Brown is good for 24. Not as many shots at Jameson thus far. Hey man, it’s good to take breaks sometimes. Zero receptions last game. 0 to9 yards in two of Williams last three. Under 45 yards, five of seven games. but always a threat to break free for a big one. Averaging 41 yds a game so far. That’s Jamo with the five and bowling his way into the end zone. Touchdown Detroit Lions. Tight end Sam Leaporta second on the team at 48 yards per game. Close to first down yard is Leaporta and they’re going to give it to him. And of course Jir 27 receiving yards per game, 75 per on the ground. Has a couple of 90 plus rush yard games under his belt. went for 136 before the break. Plus 82 receiving yards. Six Bob Ross jobs on the year. There goes Gibbs. Foot race. Touchdown Lions. His partner David Montgomery hitting at 50 yards per game. Found the paint four times. Lots of puffy clouds and trees can be found there. Dropped off for Montgomery. This brings us to the last of the areas Minnesota has to fare better at. They gave up 117 yards on 5.1 a carry to Kamani Vidal. He scored on him, too. Make it a seventh rush and make it a touchdown. Vikings trying to snap a fivegame losing streak to the Lions. They’ve taken six of the last seven. These two have a long history. 127 games played against each other. Not a single playoff meeting. Kind of remarkable. Do you remember who won the highest scoring game between the two in 1995? Over 70,000 fans and another national television audience retreated to a record-breaking offensive explosion. The likes of which had not been seen in Detroit in over a decade. Backpedals on first down. He’s got Barry out of the back field. Goes to the end zone for Peril and he’s got it. Touchdown Lions. 534 total yards. The fourth highest total in team history. Johnny Morton. Oh, what a catch. Touchdown Lions. With that, the Lions became the first team in 37 years to have three receivers and a running back with over a 100 yards a piece in the same game.

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