Hold the Hype!!!

Every year, us Vikings fans devote our attention, passion and just pure love to watching their sport. Constantly we are shown something dismal and unacceptable. It is a tough league and we have more talent than most teams. How do we manage to work it away. Beyond that, I never like when the Vikings are given too much attention, because then we find a way to squander it... see Mike Tice's years, 5-0, 6-0 starts only to lay eggs.

I want to believe. I do believe... but shouldn't we chill out... look at what we have to deal with for the first 5 weeks:

@ Packers - 13-3 (Aaron Rodgers will do adequately for them)

Colts - 13-3 (division winners how many years in a row now)

Panthers - 7-9 (no slouch with a completely retooled offense)

@ Titans - 10-6 (what do running QBs usually do to us? Cue up the Michael Vick highlights)

@ Saints - 7-9 (were one game away, just like the Vikings from playoffs last year)

THAT'S THE FIRST 5 GAMES!!!! We could be 0-5 starting out. Do I think that will happen? No, but I don't see dominance anywhere yet either. This has got to be near the worst starting schedule for any team this season. Only schedule that I've seen worse, was the Bills last year.

Are we really going to go 4-1 to start the season? Doubtful. We're certainly not going 5-0 and I'm an optimist! Look at what we have to deal with later in the season... Jaguars... AT Jacksonville (11-5 and got better defensively). Buccaneers... AT Tampa (9-7, division winners). And the Giants (10-6, superbowl winners). What more is there to be said? That's 8 games against awful hard opponents, 9 if you count the second Packer matchup.

We will be good, no doubt, but ALL of you better expect to struggle once again just getting to the playoffs. Great team, tough opponents. It's gonna be a grind. All I'm saying is hold the hype, but cheer even louder. That's all.

Z

Yo!  Keep da faith!  I know what you are saying - but havent ya noticed some good teams just COLLAPSE

Every season there are some teams that should have had winning seasons and didnt, And vice versa. 

Injuries(God forbid) hurt most  teams that underachieve - ya never know. The Colts might just suck this year FOR WHATEVER REASON.  The Panthers still have to prove they are a good team and show that the "re-tooled" offense actually can work.  The Titans rely too much on their QB to make plays - and he aint no Vick (when he was in his prime!)

And didnt we S-PA-N-K them Giants last season???

Last year we had  ADRIAN PETERSEN, Chester Taylor , THE O-LINE, THE WILLIAMS WALL, + EJ HENDERSON AND Darren Sharper. 

Guess what?  WE STILL GOT ALL THAT  PLUS......JARED ALLEN, Bernard Berrian, MADIEU WILIAMS, Maurice Hicks and other really good FREE AGENTS. Plus we still got rookies from last year that showed alot of potential like Sidney Rice, Marcus MaCauley and Aundrae Allison (who returned a Kickoff tfor a TD last year!)

Yo!  Keep da faith!  I know what you are saying - but havent ya noticed some good teams just COLLAPSE or

Every season there are some teams that should have had winning seasons and didnt, And vice versa. 

Injuries(God forbid) hurt most  teams that underachieve - ya never know. The Colts might just suck this year FOR WHATEVER REASON.  The Panthers still have to prove they are a good team and show that the "re-tooled" offense actually can work.  The Titans rely too much on their QB to make plays - and he aint no Vick (when he was in his prime!)

And didnt we S-PA-N-K them Giants last season???

Last year we had  ADRIAN PETERSEN, Chester Taylor , THE O-LINE, THE WILLIAMS WALL, + EJ HENDERSON AND Darren Sharper. 

Guess what?  WE STILL GOT ALL THAT  PLUS......JARED ALLEN, Bernard Berrian, MADIEU WILIAMS, Maurice Hicks and other really good FREE AGENTS. Plus we still got rookies from last year that showed alot of potential like Sidney Rice, Marcus MaCauley and Aundrae Allison (who returned a Kickoff tfor a TD last year!)