Both the Minnesota Vikings and the Atlanta Falcons enter the 2019 opener as teams kind of at a crossroads. In 2018 both teams had Super Bowl aspirations, yet both teams missed the playoffs. Both were relatively quiet in free agency, both teams invested heavily in the offensive line in the draft, and both teams made changes on their respective coaching staff as a way to find the answer.
For the Vikings, they revamped their offense, bringing in Gary Kubiak to oversee OC Kevin Stefanski, and a new OL coach and running game coordinator in Rick Dennison to install a zone blocking scheme.