Hey kids — sorry, we usually have the same old image with this post, but we’re having 18 different kinds of problems with WordPress today (note to the good folks there: it could be on our end, too). So you’ll have to enjoy The Monday Meltdown without any art. Please welcome back Big Daddy Drew, who loves the Vikings from a safe distance.

RandBall: Holy [redacted] did they play awful for the better part of forever last night. The offense was tentative, and the whole team looked like a combination of nervous and burdened by expectation. It was the perfect storm for one of those late-season losses that makes you hate being a Vikings fan. And yet by some piece of magic, they were able to grind out a home victory against an inferior opponent. Were those really the Vikings last night? The team I know would have lost 13-12 because of that extra point.

Big Daddy Drew: Yeah, it was sort of encouraging that they pulled it out of their butts. Good teams win even like when play like [redacted], and holy [redacted] did they play like [redacted]. I think the o-line had one of their worst games of the year.

RB: T-Jack can go ahead and never throw that loopy pass over the middle ever again.

BDD: If he was Brett Favre, it would have been a BOLD throw!

RB: How stunned were you that the Vikings didn’t just sit on it after that horrendous pass set the Bears up for their only touchdown at the end of the first half, and that the Vikings (aided by a perhaps questionable late hit) moved into field goal range and cut it to 13-6? Those might have been the most important 30 seconds in the game. Credit to Childress for taking a shot.

BDD: Agreed. That could have been a total disaster, but I give Childress credit: he’s shown patience with TJ when no one else would. Credit to T-Jack for coming back from such glaring [redacteds].

RB: T-Jack can go ahead and never leave a 13-12 game in the fourth quarter in the red zone because of a leg cramp.

BDD: Ever cramp your leg? It [redacted] hurts, man.

RB: I’m a little worried that PJ is looking to hit home runs on every play. His success earlier in the year was based on exploding to the line, never having negative plays, making an early guy miss and then going off to the races. Maybe the blocking hasn’t been as good the past couple of games, but it also feels like he’s struggling, too.

BDD: He only had one really bad run, where he passed up an open hole to bounce the play outside. Otherwise, defenders were just wrapping him up before he even got to the line. Urlacher played like a maniac.

RB: Darren Sharper. Thank [redacted].

BDD: Indeed. You know what I like? The defense hits HARD. When they hit people, they don’t keep going.

RB: Why in god’s name do you punt the ball to Devin Hester with 3 minutes to go and leading by 7. Just kick it out of bounds. Or go for it on 4th and a foot. It worked out OK, but it was inviting disaster.

BDD: Yeah, but that may have just been a mistake by Kluwe. He had screwed up those punts a couple times earlier.

RB: This Washington game is going to be pesky. Can you charter a boat for Smoot and co. sometime this week?

BDD: I’ll do my best. They’re just as baffling a team as we are. I hope the crummy Skins show up, and not the mildly competent Skins.

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