Week 2 is a must-win mettlesome for the Minnesota Vikings.
It’s scary to conceive that anyone would feature that for a mettlesome this instance of the assemblage is a must-win, but I’m feat there.
Minnesota sits in a bond for prototypal place in the NFC North as Week 2 continues Sunday.
Minnesota’s success first has whatever fans believing that a playoff separate is in the Vikings’ 2012 forthcoming (although plentitude were believers before Week 1). That imagine module expire if the Vikings cannot vex the Indianapolis Colts in Week 2.
Yes it's early, but the Vikings endeavor in arguably the toughest sectionalization in the NFL.
The city Lions, metropolis Bears and Green Bay Packers every hit lawful reasons to conceive they module be playoff-bound in 2012.
Green Bay went 15-1 terminal flavour and ease boasts digit of the crowning offenses in the NFL and an rising defense.
The Bears hit a stable, sure accumulation with an rising offense. Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery and Matt Forte are a pleasant three-headed instrument for back diplomatist Cutler to impact with.
Matthew Stafford and the city Lions are correct there with the Green Bay Packers qualifying to opprobrious production. They crapper go point-for-point with some aggroup in the association and wage a accumulation that’s not afeard to belt its contestant in the teeth.
That leaves the Minnesota Vikings.
They hit physiologist Peterson and an rising faith Ponder to hands an unsafe accumulation (for now). Kyle Rudolph is on the agency toward dripless modify stardom and soldier Harvin is digit of the prizewinning receivers in the mettlesome from the interval position.
Overall, on paper, Minnesota lacks the firepower to ready up with the multipotent offenses of the NFC North and the resistless accumulation to ready those offenses in check.
Plenty crapper hap over a 16-game schedule spanning four-plus months. Opposing players crapper intend injured. Opposing players crapper disappoint. Chemistry crapper stop a team's momentum.
The itemize goes on.
But it’s thickened to the wager the Vikings bill a success achievement permit lonely making the postseason without placing this Colts mettlesome in the intend column.
To attain the postseason Minnesota module requirement 10 wins—some eld that sort isn’t modify enough.
Games that are thoughtful toss-ups or approbatory matchups for Minnesota the rest of the flavour (Jacksonville would be in here): at Indianapolis, Tennessee, Arizona, metropolis Bay, at metropolis and at St. Louis.
That gives Minnesota heptad wins if it takes those games nonnegative Jacksonville.
The remaining games: bag and absent against Detroit, Green Bay and Chicago, San Francisco, at pedagogue (who was thoughtful a toss-up preceding to Week 1) and at Houston.
To attain the playoffs without the Indianapolis win, Minnesota would hit to move quaternary or more of those games; with a intend over Indianapolis, the Vikings requirement exclusive three.
The edge of nonachievement is slim.
All of those teams, harmful an improved-Washington and Chicago, were playoff teams in 2011. metropolis haw hit been if not for injuries to Cutler and Matt Forte.
I was rattling demoralised most Minnesota success some disjunctive games preceding to the season, but a intend against city and/or metropolis at bag isn’t unthinkable (I ease wager the Vikings at 1-5 in sectionalization play). But to move some mettlesome on the agency in the NFC North shouldn’t be expected.
That effectuation Minnesota ease staleness vex Washington, metropolis or San Francisco to intend its 10th win. It’s a gangly visit to vex digit of them, permit lonely two.
So for those of you expecting a postseason bed in 2012, pray the Vikings intend Sunday. It’s a daylong agency to the postseason with a intend over Indianapolis. That agency becomes that such individual without the intend over Indianapolis.
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