1998

[7DnBrnc53]

I don't know having a head coach that had been to and won as many conference title games as Dan Reeves, for some of the calls that Dennis Green was making late in that game are just unforgivable to me. If you can't coach it doesn't matter how much talent you have on the field that is a big reason why I love the sport as much as I do. Dennis Green wasn't in Dan Reeves' league as a head coach. The smarter football team won that game. If they were making bad decisions like that in a home playoff game imagine with all the stress and pressure of a Super Bowl after media week how bad that Vikings team gets blown out by Denver in XXIII against Mike Shannahan and Kubiak. Would have been ugly.

I don't think that Reeves was an elite HC. It's just that Green was so bad. He was almost fired in 1997 (he may have been if they lost the WC game to the Giants like they should have).

[Brian wolf]

You can blame Dennis Green but the players blew that game against Atlanta. Robert Smith ran well on that drive but kept going out of bounds, instead of running down the clock. Then, Gary Anderson misses his first FG of the year. The Vikings defense then allowed a TD drive in a little over a minute. The Falcons just took that game. Other than Tim Dwight, no other Falcons player stepped up in the SB. Anderson ran well but had a huge fumble. Tony Martin would catch a pass and immediately step out of bounds, a non-contact habit he had been doing since he joined the team. Another bad Reeves loss. Yet he has just as much case for the HOF as Levy or Grant.