I'm back

I'm going to reannounce my presence with authority.
Typical Minnesota Vikings ineptitude has brought me out of temporary retirement.
The Minnesota Vikings would lose this way. A bad team, a normal bad team, say the St. Louis Rams, would have lost 35-14 to Peyton Manning's Colts. They would have rolled over and taken their whooping like a real bad team does.
Not the Vikings. The Vikings have to torture you for a little bit. THey have to give you that little bit of hope that they can actually pull this off. The Vikings are the worst kind of bad team. They lose, and they make it sting a little while they're at it.
Once again, it was T-Joke leading the charge. It's real damn bad sign in the NFL when you're a better quarterback outside of the pocket than in it. That means the only way you're any fricking good is if you're running for your life. You have the best running back in the world behind you to free up space for the passing game, and you still can't throw a touchdown pass.
I'll give Jackson this, though: He doesn't have a whole lot of receiving targets to pick from. Bernard Berrian is the field-stretcher? Yikes. Visanthe Shiancoe is your red-zone option? crap. Then again, let's get real. Jackson would find a way to screw up the 1998 corps of Randy Moss, Cris Carter and Jake Reed.
This Viking team would have to go 8-6 now the rest of the way just to finish at. 500. They might do that. They might rattle a few wins off solely on the play of their defense. They'll have people in the Twin Cities drinking the purple Kool-Aid.
But don't forget; this is the kind of bad team that likes to bait its fans into hope just to make the failure sting a little more.