Colin Cowherd has shocking 2022 Minnesota Vikings prediction

Colin Cowherd has shocking 2022 Minnesota Vikings prediction

During one of his segments “7 reasons why the Chargers are the next Bengals” Friday afternoon, Colin Cowherd had an interesting take on how many games the Minnesota Vikings will win in 2022.

“I’ve said this before: I believe the team that will double their win total will be the Minnesota Vikings,” he said. “[Former Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer] and Kirk Cousins had a really bad relationship. Now they bring in a [Sean McVay] guy who’s supposed to be they say a ‘Taller version of McVay.'”

Here’s the catch: Minnesota won eight games last year, finishing 8-9. Not three games, not four, but eight.

Meaning, Cowherd very loosely predicted the Vikings go 16-1 this year. His words, not mine (a Vikings fan). Maybe he didn’t know or completely forgot Minnesota won eight games last year? It’s wouldn’t be his first time making this same mistake. He did it last year, too.

No team had more one-possession games than the Vikings did last year (14), winning just six of those games. They went 2-4 in games decided by three or fewer points — the two wins coming against Green Bay and the Detroit Lions — and had an underwhelming season capped by Minnesota cleaning house.

“So Kirk Cousins is going to — it’s kind of understantable (to expect) — is probably going to have an elevated season for Kirk Cousins,” Cowherd added. “Green Bay does not have the weapons they had last year; they’re bringing in rookie receivers and past-their-prime receivers, so I think Green Bay takes a big pull-back. Minnesota gets picked up.”

You can find the full quote here.

With the arrival of general manager of Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and offensive-minded head coach Kevin O’Connell — picked from the McVay tree, like Cowherd mentioned — it’s understandable to predict Minnesota having a better season than last. In 2021, they sported an above-average offense with a bottom-5 defense.

But the Minnesota Vikings — who are better than they were last season, on paper — will not win 16 games.

Not now, and maybe not ever.

That last part is coming from the cynical Vikings fan in me — I can’t predict the future, so take my word with a grain of salt — but I don’t see them winning 16 games. With a more favorable schedule and (hopefully) more luck, they can win 10-plus games, make the playoffs and have a promising first season under KOC/KAM! But winning 16 games won’t happen.

I talk myself into most Vikings teams with blind optimism each year (except in 2020, when they lost nearly half their defensive starters that offseason). It doesn’t usually end well, but I still do it. And I will again in 2022 and you can’t stop me!

But this is a wildly blind, hilarious prediction from Cowherd for a franchise that’s repeatedly broken it’s fans’ heart year-after-year. They have the fifth-highest regular season winning percentage in the Super Bowl era (since 1966) and every other team in the top-10 has multiple Super Bowl titles. Minnesota is one of two franchises with four SB appearances without a single win (Buffalo Bills). I’m not even sure sneaking MJ’s secret stuff into their cafeteria lunches could will this franchise to 16 wins in a single season, let alone without it.

Prove me wrong, Vikings.

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