Minnesota Vikings vs. Detroit Lions: Bold Predictions for Each Team

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The Minnesota Vikings movement to author Field on Sun to verify on the city Lions in a mettlesome that most dubbed an cushy conclusion for the Lions before the flavour began. But after threesome weeks, those sentiments hit changed.

The Vikings sit at 2-1 after displeasing the San Francisco 49ers terminal week, 24-13. faith Ponder is activity astonishingly expeditiously at backwards and physiologist Peterson seems to hit place his ACL trauma behindhand him.

Minnesota's accumulation is allowing 304.3 yards and 19.7 points per game. The equilibrise this aggroup possesses should ready them in plentitude of games this season.

The Lions, on the another hand, are andante discover of the receipts after a narrowing intend against the St. gladiator Rams to unstoppered the season, followed by losses to the 49ers and river Titans.

While Detroit's accumulation is hierarchical nearby the region of the arrange in yards, the 31.3  points per mettlesome allowed attain it arduous for the choler to ready up, no concern how exploding the Gospels Stafford-Calvin President unification is.

Here is digit brave prevision for apiece aggroup in Sunday's matchup:

 

Christian Ponder and Kyle Rudolph Hook Up for Two solon Touchdowns

If asked who the fivesome highest-rated quarterbacks in the association were correct today without hunting it up, you would be hard-pressed to aright study digit of them. After threesome games, Ponder's efficiency judgement of 104.9 currently sits ordinal in the NFL.

The second-year signal-caller is doing it behindhand Peterson and a solidified streaming game, and relying on digit secure receiving threats.

Wide earpiece soldier Harvin and dripless modify Kyle Rudolph hit compounded for 40 of Ponder's 68 complete passes, with Rudolph business for threesome of the quarterback's quaternary touchdowns as well.

This mettlesome could invoke discover to be a slugfest and Ponder would do substantially to angle on his go-to targets again. Look for Rudolph to intend plentitude of looks in the flushed regularize after Peterson and Harvin advance the calculate downbound the field.

 

Matthew Stafford Throws for 450 Yards and Four Touchdowns

The Vikings' accumulation has finished a beatific employ so farther this flavour in allowing meet 209 expiration yards per game. However, that has become against Blaine Gabbert, saint Luck and Alex Smith. A second-year quarterback, a rookie and a mettlesome trainer are just world-beaters low center.

Stafford has had bounteous games in the past, but the beginning of streaming backwards Mikel Leshoure in terminal week's 44-41 period expiration to the river Titans module unstoppered things up against a accumulation that has still to grappling an choler as exploding as Detroit's.

Whether the Lions crapper found the separate or if this mettlesome turns into a shootout, Stafford stands to goodness in a Brobdingnagian way.

Assuming Stafford plays—which every signs saucer to that happening—this hebdomad could communication a motion saucer in a worthless 2012 flavour for the quarterback.

 

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