Key Takeaways from Vikings vs. Bears First Game Recap

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00:00run through the first game Vikings-Bears. Let's run through the players. Some takeaways from this

00:04game again. Sam Darnold, 24-40 to 2-31, the one and one in the air. Solid game from him overall.

00:11There's some important notes that we obviously can take. They're passing at a high volume.

00:14They didn't commit as much to the run game as you would expect them to. So Darnold does fall below

00:19his passing yards. He does go over his attempts. He does fall below the passing touchdowns,

00:24although he could have very easily had a second passing touchdown to TJ Hawkinson on that rollout

00:29play where he couldn't ball to his left hand. I'm personally upset about the TJ Hawkinson not

00:32scoring. But regardless, we move on to the running backs where Aaron Jones does find his way into the

00:38end zone. He was sitting at, it was a minus 120 or so for a touchdown for Aaron Jones. 18 carries

00:43the 86 yards. Truly solid game for him. Add in the 20 yards in the air and he goes over 100 combined

00:49yards over all hitting both the over on his yards and receiving yards. I say rushing guards and

00:54receiving yards. On the other side, DeAndre Swift. Honestly, solid game for him. 19 carries,

01:0079 yards. We saw the Bears move the ball down the field effectively multiple times and then

01:05we got the touchdown callback. We got penalties. We got sacks. Getting them out of field goal range,

01:09getting them out of touchdown range, whatever it might be. Truly a solid game from DeAndre Swift

01:13and he probably should have had that one yard touchdown. Onto the receivers, we did see a solid

01:18game from Justin Jefferson, 7, 73, and 1. It's a good game from him. Obviously, Justin Jefferson

01:23has set pretty high standards for himself where he goes over on his receptions under on the yards

01:30and we do have him cashing in on that touchdown, which was sitting at, it was a minus 105 or so.

01:35A solid, yeah, minus 105 for the touchdown. A solid fantasy day for him as we close out the

01:40first week of the fantasy playoff. So that is a good start. DJ Moore on the other side,

01:44eight catches for 46 yards. I think that's an important note and generally, I've always said

01:48that yards are more important or yards are easy to get to, I should say, compared to getting to

01:53receptions. But if we're going to see the Bears offensive line struggle at times, and Caleb

01:58Williams is not going to have a ton of time to go through progressions, go through reads,

02:02getting the ball to DJ Moore often, maybe not for a ton of yards each time, I think it is an

02:07important note. So we can be looking potentially receptions on DJ Moore instead of yards.

02:13Potentially, that's just one thing we could be potentially taking away. We did see the touchdown

02:17from Keenan Allen, 6, 82, and 1. A truly solid game from Keenan Allen. Granted, it was a garbage

02:22time touchdown, say what you will, but it still cashes bets, still cashes the props. It's still

02:26great from a fantasy perspective. We don't care where the yards and the touchdown comes. We get

02:29them from Keenan Allen. So 6, 82 from Keenan Allen. Also on the other side, Jordan Addison,

02:34a very, very solid game for him, 7, 63. Didn't get the touchdown. We saw him be super hot last

02:39week, but he goes over on his receptions. He goes over on his yards. TJ Hopkinson, the five catches,

02:4552 yards from him. He goes over, was it 46 and a half or 45 and a half receiving yards for TJ

02:50Hopkinson, which I spoke about on the pregame show. So he goes over on that. He doesn't get

02:54the touchdown. I'm still convinced that play-action rollout was designed for TJ Hopkinson to get him

03:00the first touchdown of the season. Kohkumet on the other side, under on both of those, one catch for

03:0614 yards, only on the one target. And overall from the Bears offense, 13 targets to Keenan Allen,

03:118 to TJ Moore, 7 to Rome Adunze, which is good to see. These are the top three options in their

03:16offense at the ball. That's who the ball should be going to. So at least we have some level of

03:20consistency there. On the other side, again, Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hopkinson,

03:24in that order, are the main three options in their offense. From a passing perspective,

03:29Aaron Jones filling out the rest. Didn't touch on Caleb Williams too much, 18 of 31. He continues

03:34to take sacks. He did have the passing touchdown to Keenan Allen. It is what it is for Caleb

03:40Williams. We obviously saw Tyson Bajan come in there at the very end. All good things for the

03:45Vikings. Ultimately, just again, a super straightforward victory, as we said from them.

03:49They needed to come away with this one, especially with the Lions losing. We have an awesome final

03:55few weeks of the season, not just for the NFC North, but the NFC number one seed overall,

04:01with the Eagles winning. It's going to be awesome.

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