On The Ground: Breaking down the Vikings with Dan Zinski
To get some material for the Vikings section of this preview of today's NFC championship game, I spoke with Dan Zinski . Dan does a great job of covering the team for Fansided's The Viking Age . My questions and his responses are below. Andrew Bucholtz: At the start of the year, did you think the Vikings would be in the NFC championship game? How about at the start of the playoffs? Dan Zinski: I'm not embarrassed to admit I thought the Favre experiment would be a flop. I figured he'd stink or his arm would drop off and we'd limp to the finish with Tarvaris Jackson as our quarterback, and not even make the playoffs. Once we made the playoffs, however, I thought we had a good shot to beat whoever we faced in the divisional round, just because we've been so dominant at home. I was surprised we crushed Dallas as bad as we did but I wasn't surprised that we beat them. A.B.: Adrian Peterson seems to be getting less attention these days, as much of i...