It’s a long season. And after the first couple games, and plenty of mixed signals, the Vikings open a key stretch of six games in the next month that will define whether they will be a contender in the last half of the season.
There are a couple tougher games in this stretch, but for the most part this is a stretch where the Vikings should be stacking wins and building for a tougher second half of the schedule beginning on the road in Kansas City in November.
But to start stacking wins, the Vikings need to figure some things out in terms of team identity, and get better within their scheme on both sides of the ball.