| Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings |
| Mar 23, | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F | | CHI () | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 26 | | MIN () | 0 | 21 | 6 | 21 | 48 |
| Top Performers | | PASS: - | | RUSH: - | | REC: - |
| | Team Stats Comparison | | CHI | MIN | | First Downs | 23 | 17 | | 3rd Down Efficiency | 9-19 (47%) | 4-8 (50%) | | 4th Down Efficiency | | | | Total Yards | 512 | 584 | | Passing Yards | 440 | 271 | | Rushing Yards | 58 | 152 | | Penalties-Penalty Yards | 0 | 2-25 | | Turnovers | 2 | 2 | | Time of Possession | 31:59 | 20:01 |
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| Minnesota Vikings | | PASSING | C/A | YDS | TD | INT | | J. Saunders | 14/28 | 271 | 3 | 2 | | RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | | A. Peterson | 24 | 152 | 6.3 | 1 | | RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | | C. Givens | 8 | 185 | 23.1 | 3 | | J. Wright | 3 | 49 | 16.3 | 0 | | J. Carlson | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 0 | | A. Harris | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 0 | | DEFENSE | TACK | SACK | INT | TD | | C. Greenway | 8 | 3 | | | | L. English | 2 | 2 | | | | D. Revis | | | 1 | 1 | | H. Smith | | | | 1 |
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I was too lazy to throw in the computer's individual stats, sry. This would have been a close game if I hadn't intercepted two passes and run them back for touchdowns. That combined with being able to keep them to field goals when they got to the Red Zone are what won this for me.
This is my first game after bumping up the computer's rush defense again as well as lowering my QB accuracy some more. It appears to have worked, AP averaged 6 ypc instead of his usual 11 or 12. I also found it noticeably harder to fit bullet passes into slant routes like I usually do a lot, so that's good.
I had a whole slew of injuries this game. Harris went down after his first catch with a dislocated hip, so I ended up throwing mostly to Givens after that. I need to spread it around more, or Givens will get hurt again.
EDIT: The CPU rush defense wasn't all the way up to black on this game, I had it at 75. Will bump it up again and see what happens. My main concern is I don't feel like I'm getting enough plays in per game in. I bumped quarter length up to 13 minutes with 10 second runoff on normal speed.
CPU accuracy is at 39, but I'm going to raise it back up. I've become better at play calling the last five games or so. Though Greenway being injured is going to hurt my pass rush a huge amount.
USER accuracy is at 20. I'm lowering it slowly, because I'm not a particularly good passer. I'm much more of a power run player. The only real way I'm doing okay passing is because Saunders has a 96 pass power and 93 deep accuracy.
EDIT2: (Figured may as well edit instead of double posting.
These injuries are absurd. 5 guys went down in two games, four of them are key players for me. All of them are 5 week or more injuries. My only deep threat WR, my best pass rusher, my best MLB, my best TE, and then a backup MLB.
Just had another game after bumping up CPU rush defense to 79:
Vikings - 27 Bengals - 20
Vikings: Pass-272, Rush-203, First Downs-20, Turnovers-3
Bengals: Pass 152, Rush 222, FD 17, Turnovers 1
J. Saunders: 15/26, 1 TD 2 INT
A. Smith: 13/27, 0 TD 1 INT
A. Peterson: Att-30, Yards-185, Avg-6.2 TD-2
D. Sproles: Att-26, Yards- 119, Avg 4.6, TD 0
A. Dixon: 1 Yard, 1 TD
AJ Green ran once for an 84 yard TD run. It was absurd.
It was definitely a defensive game. Bengals had the ball down on the 8 yard line with 10 seconds left, but couldn't get it in to put it into overtime.