Mike Freeman’s 10-Point Stance: Vikes’ Historic Defense Has Surprised Many

October 12, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

We all got the Vikings wrong, Brian Kelly's NFL chances and time to panic in Carolina.
    
1. How the Vikings Proved the NFL Wrong Some in the NFL and media will claim they knew all along the Vikings would be fine after the team lost Adrian Peterson and Teddy Bridgewater. That would be a big, fat lie. No one knew. I thought they were sunk. Everyone did. 
That leads to the question of the season so far: Why, after losing so much, did the Vikings gain so much?
Two definitive answers emerged when I asked various team executives about the Vikings:
Minnesota is benefitting from a league in which the level of play on offense, as one scout said, is as bad as he's seen in the past five to 10 years. We may be seeing one of the 10 best defenses of all time. The reasons underlying the second point are the same reasons other defenses become great tactics and speed.
"It seems like they have their scheme mastered," Brock Osweiler said after he was s...

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