Thoughts on Vikings Debut

A few thoughts on yesterday's game against the Colts.

PROS

-This has to be the biggest pro of what I watched and in the opinion of anyone who knows what they're talking about, an omen of success for the Vikings in 2009. Brad Childress got rid of his mustache!!! No longer do we as a fan base have to be embarrassed when our coach is shown on TV. No longer do we need to say to ourselves, “Hey what's that child molester that I saw on Dateline doing on our sideline with a clipboard... oh wait that's our coach.” What a relief.

-We won the game 13-3.

-Sage Rosenfels played well, leading our offense to a touchdown and a field goal on our first two drives. Rosenfels completed 10 of 13 passes for 91 yards and took a step in the right direction for convincing me he is a competent quarterback. The only previous video footage that I've seen of Rosenfels playing in the NFL was from this play last year, which pretty much made him look like an idiot.

-Defense. First team defense sacked Peyton Manning three times in their only series of play.

CONS

-Bernard Berrian being carted off the field after sustaining an injury. The word so far is that it's some kind of a hamstring injury. It is scary, being that he is the biggest receiving threat for an already weak passing game.

-Tarvaris Jackson. More of what we've grown accustomed to seeing out of Jackson. He completed 7 of 15 passes for a meager 39 yards. It would be easy to have zero hope in Jackson, if it wasn't for the two game stretch that we watched him play out of his mind at the end of last season, proving to us what he is capable of when he is confident and using his brain. He definitely lost some ground in the battle for the starting quarterback spot with this performance.

-Adrian Peterson didn't have a 50 plus yard run where he burst out of a pile of would be tacklers, made a linebacker look foolish on a juke, and a safety look like a high school kicker with a lowered shoulder. I'll forgive him for now though. It will come.