2018 Vikings: Outlook, Roster, Depth Chart

For the 2018-2019 NFL season, our Vikings seem at first to be a team with very few weaknesses. With a newly revamped offense coming together under Mike D-Flip, who had an astronomically awesome season under Doug Pederson in Philadelphia guiding the forgotten Nick Foles to Super Bowl glory, and almost every piece of our young, #1 overall (yardage allowed/Points against, as well as top-3 in many other categories) defense returning, there is no reason to believe this isn’t our best chance at becoming world champions. Here is my predictions for how the roster shakes out.

Offensively, there is a lot of room for excitement. We get a remarkably above average, consistent player under center in Kirk Cousins. Cousins has his share of detractors but if you look at his numbers, he compares favorably with most of the league. In his 3 years as a starter in Washington, he has started every game. He has also been very consistent, with increasingly weaker weaponry to work with. His O-line has been sub-par at best in his last two years. Washington lacked any sort of dynamic run-game. And what little they had receiving the ball, has either gotten injured or traded away. It’s not as though he had a good defense to work with, which could protect leads, or buy time for an offense that may stumble from time to time.

Defensively this team should be more ferocious than ever. With almost every single player having another year of knowing Mike Zimmer’s Defense under their belt, it should be natural that the players begin to think less, and play faster and more instinctively. Already with last years #1 overall defense, Zimmer’s crew has only gotten stronger this season. The only player that is not returning from the outstanding squad that led the league last year is Tom Johnson, while the Additions of Sheldon Richardson (FA) & Mike Hughes (1st round draft pick) give Zimm two new shiny toys to plug in. There really are no true weaknesses to this defense on paper.