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't last long.By the second quarter of Sunday's 24-6 season-opening home loss to Washington Ramik Wilson Jersey , the fans were showering the sputtering team with boos. Wilks doesn't blame them."It was well-deserved, well-deserved," Wilks said Monday. "I'm disappointed in the mere fact that we couldn't put a more productive game together for our fans. We're going to make sure that we go out this week and practice hard and have a great game plan and go out and execute."But, the fans booing, they come there, they support us, they pay their money and they want to see a good product, and we didn't put a good product on the field yesterday."There were problems all around in the loss, but the worst was run defense."Still very disappointed in how we performed. Again, it started on the defensive side of the ball," Wilks said. "I just thought it was poor run fits, a lack of execution up front, getting out of our gaps, linebackers not playing downhill and just really being 'out-physicaled' up front."The offense was equally inept, running 14 plays in the first quarter. Arizona had the ball three times in the first half, gaining a couple of first downs on its first possession and going three-and-out on the other two.The Redskins ran off consecutive touchdown drives of 80, 73 and 92 yards to lead 21-0 at the half."We just didn't play the way we are capable of playing," said safety/nickel cornerback Budda Baker Dante Fowler Jr Jersey Salute to Service , whose 11 tackles tied Josh Bynes for a team high. "They preach on staying in your gaps and doing your job and sometimes players will be out of their gaps and the next thing you know the running backs will be in their gaps."On the first scoring drive, the Redskins had runs of 13, 14, 13, 8 and 8 yards, culminated by Alex Smith's 13-yard TD pass to Chris Thompson. The second drive, Smith did his most serious damage with short passes that turned into significant gains, including an 11-yard pass to Thompson on third-and-seven, a 22-yard pass to Jordan Reed and 10 yards to Jamison Crowder.Adrian Peterson finished it off with three straight power runs up the middle, the last for one yard and a touchdown, the 100th rushing score of the running back's career.The final drive was mostly Smith, who went 7-of-7 for 77 yards."From what I was able to see, from watching the tape, I think guys are trying to do too much instead of just trying to do their job," Wilks said. "That's what we talked about this morning, being one of 11, just trying to go out and do your job and trusting the man beside you. Guys trying to make plays when it's not their play, and they're getting out of their gaps. Then again Authentic Cory Littleton Jersey , some of it is just using our hands, technique, those things, as well, and we're going to get it corrected this week."They'd better. Next up on Sunday is a matchup with the reigning NFC West champion Rams in Los Angeles.Arizona's offense did the defense no favors with its quick outs in the first half.Falling behind so quickly forced the Arizona game plan, centered on David Johnson's running, to be thrown out.Sam Bradford was uncharacteristically erratic, completing 20 of 34 for 153 yards with one interception.Johnson called it "a bad game" for him, gaining 37 yards in nine carries and catching five passes for 30 yards.Larry Fitzgerald had seven receptions for 76 yards, but the only other wide receiver with a catch was rookie Christian Kirk, who had one for four yards.The Cardinals finally got going a little bit late in the game."When you get behind like that you just kind of have to start calling plays on the go and adjusting to what they're doing with us," Kirk said. "I feel like we got the ball moving a little bit at the end, so you can build off of that." The physical attributes Danielle Hunter has used to amass his league-leading total of 11陆 sacks this season are so ideal that some of his Minnesota Vikings teammates have taken to calling him "Create-A-Player," the feature on Madden NFL that allows gamers to concoct the seemingly perfect computerized prospect.Hunter's 6-foot-5, 252-pound, muscle-bound frame and 4.57-second 40-yard dash time that led all defensive linemen at the combine in his draft year would already be a handful for opposing offenses, but the strides he's made over four seasons on the mental side of the game have helped turn him into one of the league's best defensive ends with just one week elapsed past his 24th birthday.Matthew Stafford was the latest quarterback with a too-close look at Hunter's dominance, when his 3陆 sacks and fumble return for a touchdown fueled a 24-9 victory for the Vikings on Sunday over the Detroit Lions."He's improved on just being reactive Limited Austin Blythe Jersey ," Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. "A lot of young defensive linemen, especially because we harp on stopping the run, they're nervous about, 'Hey, I'm going to take a chance here, because I think this is a play-action pass' or something like that. The thing I notice about Danielle, he just lets it rip now, and that's what makes him good."The Jamaica-born Hunter, who settled in the Houston area with his family at age 8, was drafted by the Vikings in the third round out of LSU in 2015 after he ended an unheralded college career by skipping his final season of eligibility.His length, speed and strength made him an obvious pro prospect , but there were league-wide concerns about his technique inconsistencies and tendency to let overthinking slow down his production. He had only 4陆 sacks over three years with the Tigers.The Vikings, though, relied on analytics to peg Hunter as a potential star with the right coaching and scheme. They saw a note-taking and self-motivated player who they wouldn't have to worry about doing his part.Still six months shy of his 21st birthday when he was drafted, Hunter had plenty of time to grow. In 2016, he led all defensive ends in the NFL with 12陆 sacks and finished third overall.Last season, he overtook Brian Robison as the full-time starter opposite Everson Griffen. He signed a five-year contract extension this summer worth as much as $72 million with $40 million in guaranteed money and $15 million up front.With 37 sacks in 55 games, Hunter has fast climbed the all-time Vikings lists. With just three more sacks over Minnesota's last seven games Ethan Westbrooks Jersey , he'll have the second-most in a player's first four seasons with the team behind Jared Allen.Hunter is tied with Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald for the league lead with 13 tackles for loss and tied for eighth in the NFL with 15 quarterback hits. He had at least one sack in each of the five games Griffen missed earlier."It's not me alone. I've got good teammates, a good defensive line again," Hunter said after the Vikings sacked Stafford a franchise-record 10 times . "We go out there, and we work together as a team."The Vikings (5-3-1) eagerly entered their bye week with their well-decorated defense back on track following a couple of uncharacteristically soft performances over the first half of the schedule."We had things that we had to fix. We just learned from what we had done, and then we went out there and just went to execute them," Hunter said. "Just doing our jobs. Not trying to do selfish things out there."That's the foundation of Zimmer's system, a disciplined approach to honoring the run, staying in the right pass-rush lanes and trusting nearby teammates to handle their responsibilities. This four-down-linemen scheme, though predicated on an ability to pressure the quarterback from all points, is not designed to produce high individual sack totals. Every once in a while, though, an in-the-zone performance such as the one Hunter had on Sunday comes around."Sometimes you go out there," Hunter said, "you just know you're about to beat this guy."