Let’s face facts. At 1-5, the Vikings’ post-season hopes are pretty much nil. Sure they could run the table and end up 11-5, as I predicted pre-season, but that just isn’t going to happen. It’s not going to happen because the Vikings haven’t been able to develop their new guys sufficiently in a short time (except Justin Jefferson), and the Vikings defense will be without key people up-front the rest of the season.
The contenders this season seem to share one key ingredient: not much player turnover and /or a key veteran upgrade or two.