smoothmat
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It’s Really Difficult For Me Right Now…
I admit it, I am a Vikings fan. It’s hard to be a Vikings fan sometimes, especially since I married a Packer fan, but that’s not why I write this blurb.
I have heard all of the jokes about the empty trophy case, the love boat, the Herschel Walker trade, forgetting to make a draft pick, not showing up to the NFC Championship game in 2000 when the Giants destroyed my squad, and Gary Anderson’s kick that sailed wide right when the Vikings were by far the best team in the NFL in 1998. So, we fans have had more than our fair share of heartbreak surrounding the Vikings, and when we get optimistic we get pegged as airheaded HOMERsotans. How hard has it been to watch our biggest rivals hang on to a QB like Brett Favre for 17 years, and have the insane amount of success he has brought them? Let me tell you it has been awful.
So, on the eve of Football Christmas (the NFL Draft) I’m getting an uneasy feeling of optimism and hope. Normally I thrive on seeing draft day unfold, but the Vikes have already made their selection, via a trade with the Chiefs for defensive end Jared Allen. The whole problem is, I think that this team may be for real this year.
With 75% of our defensive line being Pro Bowlers, and what seems to be the beginning of a pass rush, I am finding it harder and harder to believe that this defense will be lit up this season. We all saw what a great pass rush can get you in cruch time when the Giants handled everyone en route to the Lombardi Trophy. Even the most glaring hole, quarterback Tarvaris Jackson (which is pronounced TAR-VAR-US), I find myself feeling more confident in than I ever have. I believe he went 7-3 in starts last year, and this year he has not only one of, if not the best running back in the league, A.P., he also has a great deep target in Bernard Berrian (who was pretty good on a horrible pass offense in Chicago).
And with the next best team in the division losing their 17-year starting quarterback, and replacing him with a talented but injury prone Aaron Rodgers, I find it hard to believe that the Vikings will not only win the weak NFC North, but contend for a first round bye.
Maybe I need to be talked down from the ledge, because I am about to jump off of this building and land in the driver’s seat of the Vikings bandwagon.
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Being a Cowboys fan and having a father and good friends who love the Vikings I have to say the Vikings are going no were and doing nothing. But I think that they may have a season worth talking about. Of course A.P. is in the back field with Chester running the ball and B.B is going to be able to catch some balls for TD’s, the defence is going to come up big with the aquistion of Allen from K.C. My biggest question for all Vikings fans is. Can Tarvaris be the answer for the team to lead deep in to the playoffs or even to the Super Bowl? I’m not sure if he can but if he makes the right plays and good decisions the purple and gold should be the NFC North Champs.
I predict:
Minnesota Vikings 8-8 or 10-6 making the playoffs
Green Bay Packers 7-9 or 8-8
Chicago bears 6-10 or 5-11 No QB in the windy city
Detroit Lions tied with Chicago
DALLAS COWBOYS 13-3 OR 11-5 just not sure with those damn Giants and Eagles I can never tell those games scare me I hate them.
Now that the draft is over I think that the good old Vikes have improved their team over last year. Still would have been more encouraging if Brohm was a QB on this team. If you make the trade for Allen and are going for it this year a better plate of options at QB would help. They addressed QB but I believe they could have done a little more. I also think that the coach is still a big wild card for this team. His unwillingness to make adjustments or admit that a player he likes isn’t performing is a little troubling. They also have a very tough schedule. Good luck to you smoothmat I hope they do well and can get the facilities to stay in Minnesota and get our of the dump downtown. I can’t jump and won’t jump as the 70’s teams did severe damage to my faith when I was just a wee lad.