The Patriots Are Back, the Chargers Are Done, and More Week 4 Story Lines

GilThe concern, I guess, is if the offense doesn't figure it out is how far can the defense take you, right? And to Shields' point, Hawkinson did stop at the one -yard line. So it shouldn't have been a five -point game. They should have won by, you know, let's say 12, 11, whatever it is, right?

GilThe counterpoint would be Chris Bell stepped out of bounds about an inch. And that was a touchdown that they gave up. There was a massive play that he became ineligible because before he ran downfield, he had the foot out, which, by the way, that's on the equipment staff. for having him wear black shoes with the white sidelines.

GilLike that's one of those things that's very easily fixable where the white shoes could have, it'd be like, ah, is there like a little sliver of green in there? I don't know. Like, are we going to call this? So that was a fortunate situation for the Vikings, but the foreign O seems like a,

Gilthis isn't a team that's going to go undefeated. Right. I don't think any of us think that it's, it's a good position to be in, but if the offense doesn't figure it out, there should be some concerns as to how far the defense

Pelisserocan take you. Also, Justin Jefferson didn't play in that game because of his ankle. He wants to play this week against the Saints. If he can't go, I fully anticipate he'll be back after the bye. That makes a big difference. But you guys are absolutely right. I mean, the limited time on task for Kyler, who remember splitting reps the whole offseason with a guy who's no longer there, just starting to find those things.

PelisseroThey just lost their left guard. That's a big deal. and also just Aaron Jones is giving everything he's got. It's just not primetime Aaron Jones anymore. So let's see how kind of things shake out of the running back room as well. We also had one of several incidents yesterday involving officials in that game.

PelisseroIt was, in that case, Adrian Hill getting real upset because Eric Wilson bumped into him, knocked him over. He actually got shoved into him.