Week Eighteen: Minnesota Vikings (7-9) @ Detroit Lions (11-5)

[MichiganCardinal]

Here are some tidbits from people who Tweet instead of post on MTF...

[MichiganCardinal]

Here's the whole thing if anyone cares to watch. It was a great presser.

 

[Motown Bombers]

I'd probably keep Laporta and Williams on a low snap count. 

[Motown Bombers]

If they plan to get Cabinda snaps, that means he's going to be on the active roster which he is currently not on. 

[Sports_Freak]

Ouch;

 

[Sports_Freak]

How about Houston? We need him for the playoffs.

[RandyMarsh]

 

[MichiganCardinal]

44 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

 

You can buy any custom jersey on NFL.com…. Not sure it’s the #1 selling jersey…. But I like it…. And would buy it if I was made of money.

[TP_Fan]

Looks like they cut Buggs?

 

[MichiganCardinal]

15 minutes ago, TP_Fan said:

Looks like they cut Buggs?

 

Surprising they would cut a DT and it not be Levi.

[Motown Bombers]

Buggs seems to have been in the doghouse all year. There were reports about skipping workouts and being out of shape. 

[MichiganCardinal]

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Buggs seems to have been in the doghouse all year. There were reports about skipping workouts and being out of shape. 

I remember the tantrum in week one when he wasn't activated being a bit of a distraction too. I wouldn't be surprised if that stuff is used as something of a tiebreaker in decisions like this.

[Motown Bombers]

This confirms it. 

 

[Sports_Freak]

I saw on Good Morning Foorball this morning that the Vikings aren't officially eliminated. It would be great to send them into their off-season. 

When is James Houston returning?

[TP_Fan]

5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I saw on Good Morning Foorball this morning that the Vikings aren't officially eliminated. It would be great to send them into their off-season. 

When is James Houston returning?

Doesn’t look like this week. Which is disappointing. Means his return would have to be in the playoffs.  

[Motown Bombers]

Maybe Buggs asked to be released? He phrases this like it was his decision. 

 

[MichiganCardinal]

There is the official announcement. Wonder if Cabinda asked for another couple hours in free agency to speak his mind publicly on Twitter some more.

[MichiganCardinal]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Maybe Buggs asked to be released? He phrases this like it was his decision. 

 

I think it's possible they expressed interest in re-signing him to the practice squad and he declined. I doubt they would just completely quit on a semi-contributor at this point. Need depth guys.

Also, my man needs to learn proper capitalization, it's like he's trying to encode a secret message with capitalizing the first letter of every word.

[Sports_Freak]

5 hours ago, TP_Fan said:

Doesn’t look like this week. Which is disappointing. Means his return would have to be in the playoffs.  

I didn't catch if Campbell mentioned him or not. I thought he was close to returning and wondered why he wasn't even asked about. 

[MichiganCardinal]

10 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I didn't catch if Campbell mentioned him or not. I thought he was close to returning and wondered why he wasn't even asked about. 

On 97.1 this morning, he said probably not Houston this week but he’s still progressing.

[RandyMarsh]

Heard on the radio that Campbell said that they are indeed planning on playing all the starters and treating this like any other game. Also just saw on twitter that the Vikings are planning on going back to Mullins for the game. Fool me once....

[holygoat]

 

[Tenacious D]

[Motown Bombers]

18 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:

Heard on the radio that Campbell said that they are indeed planning on playing all the starters and treating this like any other game. Also just saw on twitter that the Vikings are planning on going back to Mullins for the game. Fool me once....

I like how the Vikings go with their only non mobile QB against the Lions, a team with a history of struggling against mobile QBs, and start their mobile QBs against everyone else. 

[Tenacious D]

I’d be shocked if Bridgewater doesn’t get at least the 4th quarter.  Allows him to play in his last NFL game and gives Goff some rest/protection.