Percy is finally back practicing, as of Friday I believe, and wants to play tonight. We will see what happens. This would be an important step towards getting our offense back into high gear before playoffs.
With the Saints losing on Saturday to the Cowboys, that makes the last few games of our season a little more interesting. It gives us a slight chance of maybe stealing the #1 seed from them. Their last two games are against Tampa Bay and Carolina, so let me be clear, the chance is slight. Not sure how a tie is broken if we both go 14-2. I think it is tremendously to our advantage though if we could somehow get that number one seed. Or, somebody can do us a favor and beat the Saints in round two and then we'd have home field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs.
Having Antoine Winfield back did amazing things for our defense last week. Jasper Brinkley did fine in his first full game at middle linebacker. It will be interesting to monitor his performance for the rest of the season.
I was recently remembering the legend that was Jermaine Wiggins and all his glory with the Vikings. I looked up some old Vikings videos from 2004 when Wiggins was our starting tight end. The man looked like he hopped in an NFL time machine during the late eighties and it launched him into 2004. That season doesn't seem like so long ago, but back then Daunte was still our starting QB and we still had Moss. That was the infamous season where we went 8-8, sneaked into the playoffs, and went to Green Bay and upset them. Our now beloved Favre threw four interceptions for the Pack, leading to our victory, and Moss did his mock moon to Green Bay fans. That season Daunte threw for over 4,700 yards, had 39 touchdowns and only 11 interceptions, and had a 69% completion percentage. It looked like he was entering his prime, plus he had just perfected his really cool touchdown celebration, where he does the basketball traveling symbol a few times in a row while skipping and bobbing his head. I guess it was a short lived prime, as he completely fell apart the next season when we traded Moss, who is still my favorite Viking of all time.
Anyway, watch these two vidoes from 2004, they are entertaining. Daunte threw five touchdowns in back to back games.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/minnesota-vikings/09000d5d8015d7e7/Vikings-34-Texans-28
http://www.nfl.com/videos/minnesota-vikings/09000d5d80165c2f/Vikings-38-Saints-31
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