Could the Vikes have a new "Sheriff?"

First, let me just state that if you were to have asked me two months ago: "Do you think it could be possible that if the Vikes were to lose Moss, that there would be any fathomable senario that would make me optimistic, much less jubilant, about the coming season's success..." Answer:no"

I wouldn't have even be able to speak, as would have been mixing up a batch of grape kool aid (for those Hermantown readers, see the Jim Jones mass suicide) for immediate consumtion.

I can not tell you how excited I am about this season, and I'm calling it right now, 11-5, with a visit to the NFC championship game.

This is exactly the kind of team I would build if I ran things.

It all starts with defense, 2 top corners and 2 studs at DT. Pressure up the middle is far more disruptive than from the outside, where a QB can just step forward to evade it.

And with this rebuilt secondary, they'll only help the D-line get more sacks with tight coverage.

There is just one more imperative, they have to take a WR with their first draft pick!

If I hear any more of this moronic talk about "we will take the best player on the board," I'm gonna start mixing up the kool aid again!

You have to draft for need, and there should be a blue chip receiver available.

Now, could Coach Tice be evolving into the new "Sheriff?"

Check this out...

Tice explaing his philosophy: "when a guy steps up and emerges as the guy, he is the guy. When he wants to play, he'll play...The second guy will spell the guy. The third guy? He won't be happy."

HUH?

This is right up there with the Denny Green classic: "Nobody plays, like we play, when we're playing."

I've been a Tice supporter all along, even in the face of criticism from those who claim he looks like an 8th grade math teacher with that dopey little pencil behind his ear.

I mean, come on Mike, with all that ticket scalping money you're pulling down, can't you at least afford a nice Cross pen?

So Mike, step out of Denny's (albeit immense) shadow, be a man, and pick a WR #1.