Falcons @ Vikings

Pink Floyd wrote "Run Like Hell" in 1979 for The Wall album. I sure hope Teddy Bridgewater listens to the deeply philosophic advice Roger Waters gives him through that song:

"Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run.
You better make your face up in
Your favorite disguise.
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes.
With your empty smile 
And your hungry heart.
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past.
With your nerves in tatters
When the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter 
Down the door.
You'd better run."

The biggest news of the week was not Cassell being done for the season, it was Brandon Fusco (the RG who just signed a 5-year $25 million contract with the Vikings) being placed on injured reserve making him out for the rest of the season.

On the right, we now have Vladimir Ducasse who reminded me of a flaming garbage fire during his brief appearance during the Saints game last weekend. Speaking of garbage, it doesn't get much flamier and stinkier than our #4 overall pick from 2012, Matt Kalil. After making the pro bowl in his rookie year and mysteriously sinking into the quicksand of mediocrity last year, he was projected to have a breakout year this year. The only breaking out we've seen so far has been on the part of any (yes, any) defender who happens to be across from him so far. Kalil looks so incompetent that even half-hearted attempts at rushing the passer result in the QB hitting the ground. In the last game, as one blogger noted, Kalil could legitimately have been given credit for a sack of his own quarterback after he tripped up the QB while being shoved back like a paper figure. At the moment, it looks like he'd have trouble blocking a laundry-line T-shirt from hitting his face.

Oh, remember Kyle Rudolph who signed a 5-year $36.5 million contract extension this year? He's gone for at least six weeks for surgery to repair a sports hernia. And I have no desire to talk of the playing status of Adrian Peterson who signed a 6-year $86.2 million contract with the Vikings recently.

But, the TB infection has started in Minnesota. We're going to throw him to the wolves (Falcons). Poor man is going to be ducking and dodging defensive players all day. Kalil clearly is on a mission to ensure that at least one QB has a good chance of getting killed on each play and Ducasse is so out of it that he doesn't even realize that defenders have gone past him. Matt Asiata looks at every play as the opportunity to grind out a solid 2.5 yards and decides to run into the nearest defender once he manages to get 2.5 yards past the line of scrimmage. Norv Turner obviously has something against Cordarelle Patterson. Despite being the only playmaker actually still playing on the team, he is almost never targeted. Cordarelle must have made a pass at Norv's wife or something like that. For whatever reason, he is in the doghouse.

So, come watch Teddy Time start in Minnesota with Teddy getting a good view of the sky when he is on his back after each play. We can enjoy the view with him. 

Come watch TB run. When the cockleshell shatters ... And the hammers batter down the door ...