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Let's see.

Surly Viking says you consistently blamed the D and excuse the offense for injuries.

Those injuries existed on both sides.

So, well, you know, I think that injuries impacted both sides.

That doesn't mean that they should have lost the games that they lost or that they're

beyond criticism for losing those games.

Like, they're four and four.

And if you are what your record says you are,

then I think when you lose 37 to 10, we're not going to come off that and be like,

oh, everything was fine.

You know, the defense against Jalen Hertz allowed a perfect quarterback rating.

And it was almost that against Justin Herber.

He stood in there and made play after play.

Receivers were wide open. So the offense's injuries were different because it was a quarterback.

I mean, you have a backup quarterback. Again, go around the league and look and tell me how many on

any given year backup quarterbacks are winning more than half of their games. The answer is not

that many. And then you're playing with a wounded backup quarterback, but that doesn't mean you should be giving

up 70-yard touchdowns to Devante Smith or 50-yard touchdowns to AJ Brown or like that's,

or even what they did against Detroit. They had a great defensive game plan. They still gave up

24 points because they gave

up huge plays in the secondary. It didn't tackle that well in the secondary. I've said before,

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