The Vikings Just Got DISRESPECTED...

The Vikings just got disrespected in a huge way by Colin Cowherd's recent power rankings that are absolutely laughable when looking at the teams ranked above them, which brings up an interesting and staggering hypocrisy from the NFL media narratives all season. We're going to break down all that in this episode of Vikings Digest, but first, we are so close in trying to hit our goal of 5,600 subscribers before we kick off against the Detroit Lions on Sunday afternoon, so if you're part of the 89% of viewers who are not yet subscribed, you want to help us reach that goal as well as getting one step closer to eclipsing Bengals Digest in subscribers make sure to hit that subscribe button and the bell icon so you don't miss any of the episodes when they drop with that let's hop right into it folks which is that Colin Cowherd strikes again and yes i'm talking about Colin Cowherd who is on the the Herd with Fox Sports and as well as has his own podcast but we've known for a very long time that he is a generational hater of the Minnesota Vikings there has been maybe a couple times that You can count where he has actually been in support for the Vikings. Sam Darnold, he liked a little bit, but he still had a lot of criticisms to go along with it. But they felt like a lot of backhanded compliments. And with Kevin O'Connell as well, he starts to kind of waver a little bit here and there. And then with J.J. McCarthy, he absolutely tore him apart. But now that he's in with the New York Giants and he's singing a whole different tune now that J.J. McCarthy is playing very well. To me personally, I have never really taken him seriously. and I've always just kind of ridiculed him for all the stuff that he's been saying if you guys been following for the channel long enough you would know that a couple years ago we also posted another video similar to this we've done a couple over the years as well just absolutely ridiculing his takes and his power rankings and what he has to say when it comes to the Minnesota Vikings and this week he was at it again folks as he released his Herd Hierarchy of top 10 teams going into week eight and when you look at the top 10 it is absolutely ridiculous because what the hell even was this where you look at the teams you got the Bengals at 10 the Rams at 9 you got the Broncos at 8 lions at 7 bills at 6 chiefs at 5 Pats at 4 Bears at 3 Niners at 2 and the Seahawks at 1 what the hell are you smoking Colin Cowherd like honestly really the Vikings are an undefeated team and they are outside of the top 10 you have the bear uh the bears who won their game on Thursday night cool the Pats they lost yet they're in the top five the chiefs they lost yet they're in the top five then you look at all the other teams in there the rams are below 500 and newsflash for you there bud is when you look at the NFC North who is the number one team up there Minnesota they are six and zero newsflash we're undefeated hello so that means that we are first place in the NFC North division well guess what that means that we are also first place in the NFC and where do you see the LA Rams they are not even in the playoffs if the season were to end today i know a lot of people will say well they're going to be getting players back and yada yada yada but Minnesota is still at a commanding six and zero right now with the Niners and the Bears hot on their tail but still Minnesota is undefeated so guess what because they're undefeated they're not only number one in the NFC they are number one in the entire NFL so yes it is an absolute crime against humanity for him to not even have the Vikings inside the top 10 you can make a case for a ton of other teams to be in that top 10 the Browns could even replace where the Broncos are sitting right now or the Bengals or the rams for that matter i don't even know why they're in there but you look at where Minnesota could stand even if they're not put at number one i can see why you would put San Francisco at number one even though they lost and Brock Purdy was picked off a bunch of times and even with Seattle they had a really dominant win they're looking like they're kind of getting back to the way that they were last year so even then you can't discount that Minnesota is at least a top five team especially when you're putting two teams at five and four that also lost on Sunday and Thursday as well because the pass played on Thursday and Minnesota is still undefeated and this is all a very big thing going on in the NFL right now where a lot of analysts and kind of pundits and all these things are talking about all these teams. When you look at Colin Cowherd's rankings, what do you notice in common there? Seattle, high-powered offense. San Francisco, high-powered offense that has a lot of injuries. The Bears, high-powered offense. The Pats, their offense is really getting going right now. The Chiefs, Kenneth Walker is looking like an MVP right now. The Bills, we're going to get to them in a second because they have the number one offense in the league right now and I'm pissed off about the narrative around this then you got Detroit Lions they got a great offense their defense is absolutely freaking terrible look at the Broncos their defense is carrying Bo Nix's sorry ass through this season as he can't even complete a pass over five or ten yards you look at the Rams right now they're riddled with injuries they're going to get guys back sooner or later but still they're a below 500 team yet they're ranked at number nine then you got the Bengals they got a really solid defense they've looked a lot better this year compared to last year Joe Burrow is awesome Tee Higgins Ja'Marr Chase they're absolutely balling out can't deny that but still even for the Bengals to be in there and then you look at Minnesota not even being there it is just absolutely asinine to me especially now that we're on the topic of Buffalo finally this is where I really have a big gripe because what I was saying what I was trying to say before is how there's this entire narrative where what you notice in that top 10 high powered offenses Minnesota has the number one defense in league and looking like a historic number one defense at that but because their offense is not anything flashy and they're just kind of game managing and controlling the time of possession running the ball ripping off these plays when they have to and still kind of moving the ball at a certain pace but it's getting going more and more each week i know last week this past game was a little bit of a setback against the Colts but still we are seeing it start to take a little bit more of a shape that is a little bit more familiar of what we know this Vikings offense can be when operating at full capacity but because of that nobody wants to put Minnesota in the top 10 conversations even or even the top five conversations of the top three conversations even though we are now the last undefeated remaining team and this brings me to my problem that i have with Buffalo and yes i love Josh Allen he's an absolute beauty this is no knock on him or anything like that but this is all to do with the media narrative around the Minnesota Vikings and versus the Buffalo Bills where when you look at the Vikings they rank 30th in EPA per play in offense but number one in first number one in EPA per play allowed in defense and the Bills basically the entire opposite where offense their first defense they are 31st but yet the entire narrative around the Buffalo Bills is how they are Super Bowl contenders this could be the year the Buffalo Bills finally get over the hump when really they haven't solved anything with their defensive problems over the last couple of years that have been a massive liability for them and the reason why they are losing these playoff games that they get so close to getting over that said hump but yet they're all praised and put in this contender conversation meanwhile Minnesota is treating like the treated like the stepchild that is just locked away in the corner in the closet that just is shunned away by the league and forgotten about meanwhile they are putting up crazy numbers on defense things that we haven't seen in the past 20 years since the 2002 Ravens and yet people don't want to put them in the contender conversations when the entire thing around Super Bowl championship teams is defense wins championships but yet no one wants to talk about that when the offense on the other side is a little bit lackluster which leads to this crazy narrative which I thought this meme was hilarious where you can see the dichotomy right here and this perfectly explains the media narrative around the difference between the Minnesota Vikings and the rest of the league even though you look at a team like the Bills the Lions where they have great offenses but they have piss poor defenses and yet they're the ones being put in these conversations and I'm not trying to sound like a bitter NFC North rival in this scenario I actually admire the Detroit Lions for the things that they've been able to do because I live right across the border from Detroit and I go over there a lot and I enjoy being in the city of Detroit they've had a lot of misery and they deserve to have some sort of happiness but at the end of the day when you look at what their defense is looking like and how their offense is basically asked to put up 35 points a game yeah it's a bit exciting it's a bit more exciting to watch because they're scoring more but when you watch what Minnesota's defense is doing to absolutely dismantle and demoralize teams into oblivion it is a master class to watch but because the the mass population of NFL fans just want to see high scoring offense and points scored and put on the board and see their fantasy scores go off and things like that it just puts a lot of viewers not wanting to even look at the Vikings or pay them any attention because they're just slugging out these gutsy and gritty wins where the defense is playing lights out so if you're an actual football know a ball knower and as well as have an appreciation for the game you will be able to watch the Vikings and what this defense is doing to teams and be absolutely riveted and excited every single snap as far as the offense is concerned yes it's left a lot to be desired but at the end of the day they are still getting going more and more and more and I know a lot of people are sick and tired of hearing about that but even Kirk Cousins where he was able to ball out with Minnesota and his Kevin O'Connell offense it took him a while to get going with it and with Kyler Murray we saw with that big 35 yard scramble that he had those things like that are going in tandem with what he did against the New Orleans Saints where you're seeing him use his legs a little bit more he is trusting in what he has to do there and I think with a lot of things that we saw on tape I think Kevin O'Connell is also going to see those things too where maybe you hit the wide open receiver a little bit sooner because it's developing rather than resorting to your legs but even Kyler doesn't want to have to resort to his legs overly or have to rely on him so i do think that's going to be something that is cleaned up going into next week against the Lions because Aiden Hutchinson is going to set those edges but hopefully what it does is open up the trenches where if guys are locked down in the secondary Brian Branch is coming back that Kyler can just go off and rip off these 15 20 yard scrambles that absolutely help us move the ball down the field and have people stop talking smack about our offense and have us start getting going and now being in the actual contender conversation but let us know down in the comments below I know I went on a really long rant about it it just Colin Cowherd just absolutely pisses me off I think of all the people in sports media that need to have their microphone taken away he is absolutely one of those guys he has barely had anything nice to say about the Vikings there's been a couple of things here and there but I can count on maybe one hand in the past five ten years how many nice things he's had to say about the Vikings or how many times versus how many times just absolutely disrespected them left them off his power rankings or just has nothing nice to say when they go to a segment about them or just flat out not even talking about them on his show for an entire week when he does a weekly recap but let us know down in the comments below what you guys think about all this and do you think that there is a very big hypocrisy going on with the NFL media narrative surrounding high powered offenses that have piss poor defenses versus really great defenses with not the greatest of offenses and how the coverage is a lot different on both sides let us know down in the comments below is that's going to do it for this episode of Vikings Digest again thank you guys so much for liking subscribing hitting that bell icon so you don't miss the episodes when they drop but for now I've been your host Griffin take care