Al & Alma's Proudly Present: Your 2006/2007 MINNESOTA VIKINGS

haha 2007, could a mod change that to 2006/2007?

ya Tavaris looks awesome. i'm thinking they could have a really good running game, what with a healthy birk, hutch, tony richardson and chester taylor. haha actually my entire fantasy season is pretty much depending on the NFC North to have a breakout year... :(

I ended up with Mewelde Moore as one of my RB's in the fantasy league. I hope a) gets some carries and b) is good.

Fever,

word on the local sporttalk radio from camp is that Childress def. sees Chester Taylor as his number one back, and he's going to get the opportunity to be the feature back, getting the bulk of the carries right away.

Well, I've got Cadillac as my own feature back... but his bye week is gonna suck for me! heh.

plus side:

team has been looking good, even the somewhat suspect (minus greenway) linebacking corp.

bad side:

dwight smith wanted to get a hummer in a car outside a club in DT mpls, resulting in yet another vikings scandal!

I once got a hummer in my pajamas. How I fit an SUV in my pajamas I'll never know.

Koren is officially out now, of course.

So...Vikes shock the fuck out of me by winning on the road against what I thought was a pretty good Washington team (with Portis even!)

Good side:

Looks like all the conventional wisdom abt. Childress i.e. "He's going to restore a sense of calm and professionalism to the team blah blah blah" is actually kinda TRUE...even after the disasterous 2nd quarter they kept their heads.....esp. LOVED how Childress - unlike Ticey - stuck with the gameplan...kept running even when Taylor was only getting 1 or 2 yards...eventually it paid off huge in the fourth quarter after we'd tired their line out a bit....

Brad Johnson looked very very sharp, played excellent. Hope to god he can stay healthy

Improved linebacker play, even with Greenway out for season, Napolean Harris even looked somewhat okay, which is a world of improvement for him.

Defense overall was strong, they seem to let teams get some yards in the middle of the field and then tighten up when it matters....Sharper's hit on Moss in the endzone was fucking amazing. Tuff stuff.

Bad Side:

PENALTIES! This has been a Vikes problem for YEARS, and Childress had vowed to fix it, but still we had 9 penalites, a number of them very stupid and drive-killing....That's probably the thing I'm most worried about...

Williamson's butta-fingaz - Kid is fast as hell, but he dropped two balls that could have totally broke the game wide open. If he's our number one that's not excusable, esp. cuz Brad threw these balls PERFECTLY, right at his hands, perfect touch.

Offensive lines - looked better in the 2nd half, but I guess I expected more considering all the money they have tied up in them....

also, I think the only big blunder Childress made was not punting away when he tried that 50+ yard field goal they missed....also seemed kinda out of character, considering he called a pretty conservative game overall.

all about the bears, son

if i were a betting man, i'd bet on them to win the central.

i don't know if they have the offense to take that elusive "next step"

OH MAN!

this game was insane.

Fox's call to do that wacky trick punt return was the dumbest move I've ever seen. He handed the vikes the game...loved Childress trick play though, brilliant, cuz that was the only fucking way were were going to see the end zone.

Julius Peppers is, like, a fucking monster. What a player. He dominated that game and we still managed to win.

Being 2-0 right now is pretty great, considering.....I was pretty much expecting us to be 0-3 after the Bears next week....although I think luck and reality is going to catch up with us in a big way next week.