Snakebit

We suck.

Actually, the Vikings didn’t play a bad road game on Sunday.

They ran the ball pretty well. They threw it pretty well. They protected Brett Favre pretty well. They didn’t take too many penalties.

But when you’re going as bad as the Vikings have been going this season, things seem to have a way of going south quickly on you, as they did midway through what was a game-killing third quarter against New England.

I won’t spend any time right now moaning about Asher Allen, or the Vikings perplexing struggles of the defensive front four, or the fact we made BenJarvus Green-Ellis look like Walter Payton in the second half.

What I will moan about is breaks. We aren’t getting any. Really, I can’t remember a season where so many bounces haven’t gone the Vikings way.

A few prime examples from Sunday’s loss:

* Madieu Williams has what looks like a sure interception, but instead it goes through his hands, rattles around several of Brandon Tate’s body parts and lands in Tate’s arms for a big gain that leads to New England’s first touchdown.

* Wes Welker bobbles the ball on a punt; it bounces off his knee and right into his hands with two Vikings just waiting to scoop up the loose ball.

* The Devin McCourty interception.

It’s just unbelievable what’s been happening this year.

And I know I wrote about the Vikings playing loose and trying some things on Thursday, but if you’ve lost seven straight road games, and you’re tied 7-7 with a chance to go up 10-7 against a 5-1 team late in the first half, and you will be getting the kickoff to start the second half, I don’t think you go for it on fourth-and-one like Brad Childress did. Certainly not the way the Vikings have been playing this year.

So no great analysis today. Just an acknowledgement from me that this has been the most brutal seven-game stretch of football for the Vikings in recent memory.

Never has a Vikings team in recent memory been expected to do so much and accomplished so little.

Randy Moss, in his own words
Thought I'd add in this bit Kevin Seifert just posted, which pretty much sums up how the Vikings season is going right now.

Randy Moss - you never know what's going to come out of the guy's mouth.