Agreed. This team could lose the last 3 games and make a 1st round playoff exit, and it would not shock me. Or I could see them winning out and, making the NFC championship game.
I won't be surprised if the Vikes get bounced early. I won't be surprised they actually win the SB (well, sort of not surprised). I literally don't know. They've completely taken NFL football logic and flipped it on its head.
I'm not even sure if it's lady luck. The only truly spectacular play in the comeback was Cook's catch and run TD (JJ spinning Gilmore around was pretty spectacular but he made that look too easy). It was mostly just sort of business-like. I think they are exploiting some break in the space-time continuum. Maybe KOC found a wormhole. You know what, JJ might actually be a wormhole. That doesn't sound very nice, does it?
I've said this all year, at some point pure luck turns into a trend. I can't explain it, but for the time being, this team has it and wins games. A team might string 4 or 5 wins together our of nowhere on some lucky plays. Teams don't go 11-3 by luck alone, there's skill and execution involve to win that consistently.
That was the most surprising part for me about the comeback Saturday. How they came back. Usually for a big come back like that, you have fluky big plays (blocked kick TD, Pick 6, Fumble return, Punt return, etc). That didn't happen here. In fact, the big fluky TD that they actually did get was taken off the board on one of the worst blown whistle calls I've ever seen. Dalvin did have the 64 yarder, but that was a well executed play. The rest of the scores were multi-play drives that took time/yardage. Considering they scored 36 points in a quarter and a half to tie it, that's pretty impressive.
Dude, JJ runs the prettiest routes in football.
Don’t know if there’s a better true homer announcer out there. He’s extremely entertaining.
