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Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf thinks that his team could have a big year. It’s probably the last thing his head coach wants to hear.
“We’re going into our fourth year [of ownership], but certainly I think everybody on our team expects great things this year,” Wilf said, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “We’re certainly going to be fighting for the division, and I think we have the team and the confidence to do it. I know that we have the potential to be the best, but we’ll wait for the season to unfold to show our true colors.
“I think it’s been a process of growing and bringing in the players that would help our team. I think this is going to be our year.”
And, of course, if it isn’t their year, then someone will catch the blame. The first guy in line with be coach Brad Childress.
The Vikings are a trendy pick to make noise in the NFC, even though the Cowboys are the consensus preseason favorite to capture the conference crown.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
It will be the Packers. You will all be surprised how much more successful a QB who plays consistently within the system will be than a guy who thinks he can do whatever he wants out there. Which usually involved throwing deep into triple coverage.
Childress is the biggest joke in the NFL. He looks like Festus, coaches like Frank Burns. My only regret is that TT won’t let Favre play there. Favre is the biggest cancer in league history.
The Cowboys will be another year out from the Parcells era.
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August 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I hope they do well, even though i’m not a fan of anyone in particular in the NFC north.
More importantly, I hope adrian doesn’t have a sophomore slump. I really want to say how could he, but you never know.
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August 6th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Yeah Baby! It’ll be just like the old days, except that it
will be different, somehow. Can’t wait for the games to begin.
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Childress looks more like that Major Dad guy who also played on Simon and Simon.
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:05 am
They’re not going anywhere with TJack. Sorry. The rest of the team is absolutely loaded and they don’t have anyone at the controls. Teams placed 8 in the box and stuffed Peterson last year and he couldn’t do anything. Good luck, Zygi.
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:17 am
This move has driven the nail in Manginas casket. The off season spend-a-thon and the acquisition of this douche reeks of a coach and GM that know if they don’t win this year they will never work in the league again.
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:21 am
@nerdmann,,,
I am rooting for the Vikings in the NFC North.
The Coach is smarter than he looks to you, nerdy. He’s got good credential at college and pro levels and he is organized and crafty. And he has groomed a young QB with a similar skillset to Tavais’ on to a lot of success: a yound kid named Donovan McNabb.
They have one of the NFC’s strongest defenses, an they will be prepared to defend a West Coast offensive system like Green Bay’s. Special Teams should not lose games for them.
Look for the Vikes to edge the Pack in the NFC North…..
F2B
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:38 am
nerdman your an idiot
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:49 am
packers-shmackers.
Go stick your cheese stick in a milk churn.
mc carthy and thompson will be gone long before Childress.
mc carthy and thompson lied.
This is the winter of green bays discontent.
This is the winter of green bays discontent.
Monday September 8th.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBEAU’S.
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August 7th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Nerdman, Blame it all on Favre if you want, but your boys TT and MM handled that thing about as poorly as an organization can handle it. Good thing they gave themselves long-term contracts earlier this year… Go ahead and think your beloved is in good hands with ARod, but when Jared Allen buries him in week one, let’s see how Brian Brohm looks for you… Go ahead, rip on TJ all you want, but he’s better than anybody you guys have. You’ll find that out soon enough…
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Frankly, I am disappointed that Zygi has such high expectations, that can only mean that Childress will be on the hot seat. I rather had Childress coaching a long, long time that way there is nothing to fear.
Just watching them last year, I have yet to see why everyone is so excited about T Jack. I see a sub par QB who looks lost, has poor throwing mechnicals and couldn’t look away from his primary receiver. If that is the QB that is going to get your team to the Superbowl, you are more delusional that Zygi himself.
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August 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am
t jack isnt going to win them anything.
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August 7th, 2008 at 10:28 am
That’s just because you don’t know squat, Little Jimmy. Our guy is better than your guy, and you’ll find that out in week one.
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August 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am
t jack isnt even the best qb on his team.
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August 7th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I understand the preseason is a reason for to be optimistic but since when the hell did a guy with 9 TD passes last season, count em 9, a 70 passer rating and the next to last passing offense in the NFL suddenly become trendy? Maybe if he throws 10 passes a game and give the ball to Peterson the rest of the time…I don’t get it. If they could have the Vikings would have taken the GB prima donna in a heartbeat…Empty13 is right, he isn’t going to win them anything.
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August 7th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
LOL. You guys don’t know squat about Jackson. Not even the best QB on his team? And who would that be?! Gus Frerotte? Stop buying into everything the media is saying, and judge for yourself. Jackson is the best QB in the division, and he’ll prove that to everyone by season’s end.
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