Minnesota Vikings: 10 win season possible for Vikings
I don’t want to be a total homer, but it sure is going to sound like one with the following statement: ten wins is a definite possibility for the Minnesota Vikings in 2015.
Yes, I went there.
It is probably futile to do game-by-game previews, but it’s so much fun to look at the schedule and project what might happen. It’s part of what makes America great.
In the 16 game season, I say there are six games for the purple that should be slam dunk wins. Game that if the Vikings should lose, the general public has a great reason to be truly upset with the squad. Those games are against the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions (at least one game against them should be won), both against the Chicago Bears, Oakland Raiders and the New York Giants.
The Vikings are just simply better than those teams. It’s as simple as that. The Vikings are still growing as a team, but those are need to win, should win games.
There’s a handful of games that look to be close on paper. The Vikings could win or lose any of these games: San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, (the other game against the) Detroit Lions, St. Louis Rams and the Arizona Cardinals.
The Vikings will be favored in some of those games, but they aren’t easy. The Arizona Cardinals game is especially tough being on a Thursday night after a Sunday game with the Seattle Seahawks. It’s tough to beat any team twice including the Lions. The Rams are probably underrated. The Chargers and Chiefs always put up a fight in recent years.
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There are four games that will be extremely tough and against three of the best teams in the NFL: Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers (twice obviously) and the Seattle Seahawks.
I’m not saying the Vikings couldn’t win those games, but they are the toughest games on the schedule for the purple. Like against the Lions, it’s hard to beat a team twice, so that might work in the Vikings favor against the hated Cheeseheads.
Six should-wins. Five close, anybody’s games. Four games against the best teams in the league.
That gets the Vikings close to that 10-win mark. The Vikings will win more games than not in the close, anybody’s games category and that would be enough to get the Vikings there. I’m not predicting the Vikings will go 10-6, but I don’t think it’s not out of the realm of possibility for the team.
The records of 8-8 and 9-7 are much more likely, but maybe, just maybe, it’s time for the Vikings to shock the world.
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