NFL: Vikings fire OC John DeFilippo

[Marc the Habs Fan]

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[GKJ]

Eagles will take him back

 

[Avs_19]

This had been building for weeks. A lot of blame to go around for the offensive struggles with his playcalling being near the top of the list. It's also much easier to make this move to try and get the offense back on track because Cousins isn't going anywhere and you're not improving your OL in mid December.

Stefanski probably would've had the job last year if DeFilippo hadn't become available. He now gets three weeks to show what he can do.

 

[John Price]

The Vikings should be 9-3 or 10-2 right now. Instead they somehow are 6-6-1.

That's his fault, but it's also Cousins fault for not living up to his hefty contract.

 

[Terry Yake]

saw this coming after the repeated play action calls on 4th and 1 last night

just run the damn ball

 

[Gene Parmesan]

saw this coming after the repeated play action calls on 4th and 1 last night

just run the damn ball

They can't. They tried.

 

[canwincup]

Don’t see him going back to the Eagles, think wherever he ends up he wants to be calling plays.

 

[Voight]

They fought hard to get him and he didnt even last 16 games. Ouch

 

[MAHJ71]

Something had to give... no way they should be 6-6-1

 

[Filthy Dangles]

 

[Roboturner913]

When you're 4th and goal on the 2 and you go shotgun four plays in a row that's pretty bad. Line up with a fullback and pound it a couple times. At least that way they won't know you're scared.

Plus the plays they were calling were stupid. If you're going spread on the goal line you have to stretch the field horizontally to the corners of the end zone to pull the defense out. They were running digs with both inside WR's. Nobody on the defense hardly had to run. That's a total lack of awareness or common sense, or something.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

He was only part of the problem (OL and Cousins holding the ball for 84 seconds) but the dudes aversion to running the ball and some of his short yardage play calls were baffling. Had 1st and goal last night and ran once, and on 3rd down no less. He also didn't realize that handing it off to Murray or Ham on 4th and 1 doesn't work.

Was probably gone for a HC job next year anyway. And you can't fire the players.


The different between him and Shurmur last year was night and day. Shurmur catered the offense to Keenum's strengths and adjust when he had to. Flip never seemed to make in game adjustments and would abandon the run way too fast.


Cousins is still better than Keenum, but I wish he had the balls Keenum has sometimes. Keenum would let Diggs and Thielen make plays, Cousins seems scared to throw the ball downfiled unless guys are wide open.

Cousins was never worth 84 million, but that was the going rate and they had little choice. Keenum was a one hit wonder (honestly we probably have the same record right now with him but hindsight is 20/20), Bridgewater was too much of a ? to rely on coming off that injury and Bradford was shot out.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

When you're 4th and goal on the 2 and you go shotgun four plays in a row that's pretty bad. Line up with a fullback and pound it a couple times. At least that way they won't know you're scared.

Plus the plays they were calling were stupid. If you're going spread on the goal line you have to stretch the field horizontally to the corners of the end zone to pull the defense out. They were running digs with both inside WR's. Nobody on the defense hardly had to run. That's a total lack of awareness or common sense, or something.

And Cousins (The 84 million dollar guaranteed QB) still was late throwing to a wide open Thielen. So late it allowed the DB to recover.

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[Trap Jesus]

I don't think people realize just how horrendous the Vikings o-line is. It's a snowball effect when the line is getting tooled consistently. Nobody has faced more pressured drop backs than Cousins, and he has a pretty good passer rating when pressured (5th among QBs with at least 400 dropbacks). It's not like he's holding onto the ball too long, his average time in the pocket is below league average. Vikes o-line has been an embarrassment for years now, and I don't think it's ever been worse.

To me, that falls on the GM. I don't know how many times they can draft receivers and corners so high, when the line needs to be top priority. All they've done is throw a couple very ill-advised contracts at Reiff and Remmers, and a stop-gap with Compton. Hell, spending a late second on O'Neill to start in his first year is their most commendable move, and he was supposed to be more of a development project. Not that he's been good, but at least they saw it as SOME sort of need...

 

[tony d]

Yeah, the Vikings have under performed this season. The talent on that team they should be better than 6-6-1. Wonder if a new OC can help them clinch a playoff berth.

 

[Avs_19]

Jay Glazer reports DeFilippo was at the top of most teams lists of HC candidates and now not only is he not at the top of the lists, he's off of them all together. Damn.

 

[Newsworthy]

Blaming DeFilippo for the Vikings bad offense is absurd.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

It was only one week and against one of the leagues worst run defenses, but it was a step in the right direction.

DeFilippo was way too pass happy and abandoned the run way too easily. Not gonna win have Cousins throw 40-45 times a game, IDC how much he makes, and you're really not gonna do it when you have one of the worst OLs in the league in front of him.

His style just didn't fit A.) what Zimmer wanted the offense to be and B.) the personnel he had.