Schedule discussion; Bengals open vs Vikings

[Essex Johnson]

(05-12-2021, 09:53 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: It was pretty terrible last year, but I don't know if I would bank on that this year.

The Vikings got absolutely pilfered on defense in FA last year (lost 2 starting DL and all 3 of their top CBs) and then got brutalized by injuries almost exclusively on defense. They had 11 guys on IR to finish 2020 and 9 of the 11 were on defense including Danielle Hunter and Anthony Barr.

Also even if you don't look at the IR exclusively...

All seven #Vikings inactives today are injured players; no healthy scratches for them today. Closest thing I can remember to that is the Thursday game in Arizona in 2015, when (if memory serves) they had more injured players than inactive spots.

— Ben Goessling (@GoesslingStrib) December 25, 2020

It's crazy. I am pretty sure the Vikings were cursed last year. Threw a black cat under a ladder and into a mirror or something.

Vikings have been an inconsistent team... you have to go back to 08/09 seasons when they had two winning seasons in a row.. with all the injuries and changes this is a great time to play them 1st game.. one of the more winnerable games on our schedule at home.