NFL Decade Standings: Minnesota Vikings

With the NFL’s offseason programs coming to a close and the league’s summer break looming, it seems like an apt time to stand back and take in the big-picture view. And not just in terms of the upcoming 2018 season. Believe it or not, there are only two more years remaining in this fast-moving NFL decade, with 80 percent of the results in the books from the 2010-2017 seasons. Here’s an up-to-date team-by-team ranking of where things stand this decade so far in the NFL, based on regular-season winning percentage.

17. Minnesota: 63-64-1 Regular-season record (.496)

Decade Summary: It’s a mixed bag in Minnesota, with everything from a 3-13 last-place mark in 2011 to the 13-3 No. 2 seed finish of 2017. It totals out to three playoff trips, three last-place years and a couple seasons of 8-8 or 7-9 ball. In coach Mike Zimmer’s four seasons, the Vikings are 1-2 in the playoffs, with that miracle win at home against New Orleans in January, in between a gut-punch loss to visiting Seattle in the 2015 playoffs and the blowout road loss to Philadelphia in last season’s NFC title game. Zimmer is 39-25 so far with the Vikings, with only one losing season. Three coaches this decade, Brad Childress, Leslie Frazier and Zimmer.