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Minnesota Vikings at New York Giants: Key Information and First Quarter Discussion
We are just half an hour away from kickoff at MetLife Stadium between the New York Giants and your Minnesota Vikings! It’s the first Open Thread of the year and we are officially open for business, so here’s everything you need to know about today’s game.
Date and Time: Sunday, 8 September 2024, noon Central time
Location: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
Television Coverage: KMSP-9 in the Twin Cities, FOX affiliates around the country, YouTube NFL Sunday Ticket
Radio Coverage: Vikings Radio Network, SiriusXM Channel 387 (Vikings feed), SiriusXM App Channel 820
Line: Vikings -1.5, Over/Under 41.5
Chris’ Prediction: Vikings 24, Giants 20
Three Keys
1) Keep Sam Darnold upright – The Giants’ front seven, featuring Dexter Lawrence, Kayvon Thibodeaux, and Brian Burns has the ability to cause nightmares for the Vikings’ offense. Darnold has plenty of weapons to work with in this offense, but if he’s running for his life he won’t be able to take advantage of them. If the Vikings can give him a clean pocket he should be able to make some plays against a suspect Giants secondary.
2) Mistake-free football – In the early part of last season, the Vikings simply could not hang onto the football, whether it was fumbling it away or throwing interceptions, and you could argue that it cost them a number of games in that early slate. The Vikings don’t have a lot of margin for error, and if they can be on the positive side of the plus-minus ratio it will go a long way towards their success.
3) Get pressure on Daniel Jones – The last time Daniel Jones saw the Vikings, he put on a performance that got him a fat new contract extension in New York. However, this is a completely different defense, and hopefully Brian Flores and all the new faces this team has brought in on that side of the ball can make things rough for him this afternoon.
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That should be everything you need to be up to speed on this one, folks. Remember that a new Open Thread starts at the beginning of each quarter, so keep your eyes open for those and move the discussion along accordingly.
Enjoy the game, folks, and hopefully when it’s all said and done in about three hours we’ll all be able to bask in the glory of being 1-0 to start the season.
SKOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL VIKINGS!!!!
The Wild were taken down by the Utah Mammoth 5-2 on Friday night to end Minnesota’s winning streak at six games.
Lawson Crouse scored twice and U.S. Olympian Clayton Keller had a goal and two assists for Utah.
Logan Cooley and Barrett Hayton also scored and Karel Vejmelka made 21 saves to help the Mammoth rebound from a 4-2 home loss to NHL-leading Colorado on Wednesday night in their return from the Olympic break. Utah began the night in the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.
U.S. Olympian Matt Boldy scored and assisted on Kirill Kaprizov’s goal for Minnesota. Second behind Central Division-rival Colorado in the West, the Wild are 9-2-1 in their last 12. They beat the Avalanche 5-2 on Thursday night in Denver.
Cooley opened the scoring with a short-handed goal with 6:37 left in the first period. The former University of Minnesota star got the puck on the right side off a deflection and put a shot between Wallstedt’s legs for his 15th goal.
Keller scored his 18th at 4:26 of the second. Nick Schmaltz forced a turnover on a forecheck and fed Keller on the right side.
Crouse made it 3-0 at 7:49 of the second. He came down the middle, took a pass from Keller and beat Wallstedt with a backhander.
Kaprizov countered for Minnesota on a power play with 5:57 left in the second. He has 33 goals this season.
Hayton made it 4-1 on a power play at 1:19 of the third, and Crouse added his 16th of the season on a tip with 7:12 to go.
Boldy got his 35th of the season with 5:57 remaining.
Up next
Wild: Host St. Louis on Sunday.
Mammoth: Host Chicago on Sunday.
Anthony Edwards scored 31 points, Donte DiVincenzo added 18 and the surging Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Clippers 94-88 on Thursday night.
Jaden McDaniels and Ayo Dosunmu each scored 12 points and Rudy Gobert had 13 rebounds to help the Timberwolves improve to 5-1 since Feb. 9 and 3-1 since the All-Star break.
Edwards, returning to the site of the All-Star Game, where he was the MVP, was 12 for 24 from the floor and sealed the victory with a step-back three-pointer over two defenders for a 92-88 lead with 42.9 seconds left.
Minnesota improved to 2-0 on a three-game trip.
Derrick Jones Jr. scored 18 points and Bennedict Mathurin added 14 for the Clippers, who struggled from the outset with a season-low 38 points in the first half. Kris Dunn had 11 points for the Clippers (27-31), who have lost three consecutive games for the first time since December.
The Clippers struggled on offense without star Kawhi Leonard, out because of ankle soreness. The Clippers shot 40.5% from the floor, including 18.2% (four for 22) in the second quarter. Minnesota shot 43.4% in the game.
The Timberwolves (37-23) scored just 15 points in the second quarter and still topped the Clippers, who had 11. Minnesota led 44-38 at halftime behind 12 points from DiVincenzo and 11 from Edwards.
The Clippers led by six in the third quarter and were up 68-63 heading into the fourth. Edwards’ drive and reverse layup put the Timberwolves up for good at 76-74 with 7:40 remaining.
The Clippers pulled within one three times in the last 2½ minutes, but Edwards answered each time. He scored the Timberwolves’ last nine points.
Up next for Clippers: vs. New Orleans on Sunday night.
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