Souhan: Vikings' recent playoff history ugly without Favre

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Souhan: Vikings' recent playoff history ugly without Favre

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http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikin ... 72661.html
More than a third of NFL teams make it to the postseason, meaning that earning a playoff berth is no longer a measure of success. The Atlanta Falcons might have fired coach Mike Smith even if he had won the putrid NFC South this season.

The modern measure of NFL success is playoff victories, not playoff appearances, and by that measure your Minnesota Vikings have one person to thank for saving them from abject failure over the past 14 years.

Brett Favre.

Currently, many Vikings fans are highly encouraged by the promise of red-faced Mike Zimmer and baby-faced Teddy Bridgewater.

Promise, for this franchise, is a much-needed salve, because if Brad Childress hadn’t talked Favre into coming out of retirement before the 2009 season, recent Vikings history would look an awful lot like the Tennessee Titans’.
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Re: Souhan: Vikings' recent playoff history ugly without Fav

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Weird timing of the article - considering Minnesota missed the playoffs.

However, the article in itself made me depressed. The failures of this team the past 10 years is ridiculous. Hopefully, Teddy Bridgewater and Mike Zimmer are the answers for our past futility. I feel like there is hope for this team for once, but still, it is hard not to be a tad skeptical.
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