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RE: Just realized we are tanking - StickierBuns - 12-29-2025
Wins are wins are wins. Do fans not want wins? Always moving the goalposts: you want the team to have heart? It obviously does. I thought KOC had 'lost the team'? Now they are wins because there's 'no pressure', lmao. I'd argue winning NOW is harder....keeping the players engaged. Trust me, if the Vikings would have lost their last 2 or 3 these same fans would be bagging on the org. just differently.
This team isn't far away, contrary to what the naggers think.
RE: Just realized we are tanking - greediron - 12-29-2025
(11 hours ago)StickierBuns Wrote: Wins are wins are wins. Do fans not want wins? Always moving the goalposts: you want the team to have heart? It obviously does. I thought KOC had 'lost the team'? Now they are wins because there's 'no pressure', lmao. I'd argue winning NOW is harder....keeping the players engaged. Trust me, if the Vikings would have lost their last 2 or 3 these same fans would be bagging on the org. just differently.
This team isn't far away, contrary to what the naggers think.
So true. I enjoyed each one of these wins. Team is fully engaged, KOC is building the culture and banking goodwill for next season. Players have pride and want to win. Unless you are playing for the #1 pick, tanking is a hard sell. Even then, it is tough. Just ask the Giants.
RE: Just realized we are tanking - supafreak84 - 12-29-2025
(11 hours ago)StickierBuns Wrote: Wins are wins are wins. Do fans not want wins? Always moving the goalposts: you want the team to have heart? It obviously does. I thought KOC had 'lost the team'? Now they are wins because there's 'no pressure', lmao. I'd argue winning NOW is harder....keeping the players engaged. Trust me, if the Vikings would have lost their last 2 or 3 these same fans would be bagging on the org. just differently.
This team isn't far away, contrary to what the naggers think.
We want wins when the wins count for something. Thats not moving the goalposts. These wins count for nothing and winning at this point only diminishes the little advantage losing gives us heading into next season. If you think these wins count as some kind of "cultural momentum" for next season, it doesn't, because that's not how the NFL works. We won 14 games last year...how did that carry over to this season? It didnt because its a completely new year with a new team. Every year is a completely new and different entity in its own and league parody has made it that way. The Viking way throughout history has been to win meaningless games when they amount to nothing. You want to know why we've never had a franchise quarterback and have been one of the most successful regular season teams in league history with the littlest postseason success? It's because we are "just good enough" and have forever lingered in mediocrity because we win meaningless games. Sorry, but give me the higher draft pick and the last place schedule in 2026. I know the old curmudgeons hate that and consider it blasphemous, but welcome to the new NFL.