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Friday open thread: Are the Minnesota Vikings any good? The Minnesota Vikings were the consensus best team in the NFC North headed into the 2018 season. It made sense. They’re reigning division champs Levine Toilolo Jersey , they added a bonafide franchise quarterback, their defense returns just about everyone and even added Sheldon Richardson. But it’s been a rocky start to the season for the Vikings. After Thursday’s nights 38-31 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, the Vikings are now just 1-2-1, and had it not been for a fortunate roughing the passer penalty Christian Jones Jersey , Minnesota would currently sit at the bottom of NFC North at 1-3. But even so, Lions fans crowned the Vikings as the best team in the division earlier in the week. Has their opinion changed after a close loss to the now 4-0 Rams?Today’s Question of the Day is:Are the Minnesota Vikings any good?My answer: Yes, unfortunately. They haven’t been a great football team through four weeks, and it certainly seems like we (see: me) overrated them a bit. Their offensive line problems are real Devon Kennard Jersey , and it has led to too many turnovers. Kirk Cousins has actually been playing pretty well (103.6 passer rating), but he’s lost three fumbles in four games and thrown two interceptions largely because of inconsistent pass protection.Then there’s the defense. Thursday night they had no answer for Jared Goff—who finished with a perfect 158.3 passer rating. Minnesota has now given up 94 total points in the past three games, and some are starting to believe their defense is way overrated.I’m not there quite yet. The defense is just too talented right now at this point for them to be playing this poorly this consistently. The Rams have the hottest offense in the league right now. Aaron Rodgers can dissect even the most fundamentally sound defenses. As for last week’s game against the Bills... well, I don’t have much of an answer for that other than the fact that a couple of Cousins turnovers put Minnesota’s defense in a vulnerable spot. Are the Vikings worse than I had originally thought. Yes Isaac Nauta Detroit Lions Jersey , it’s pretty safe to say that now. But this is still a team that will contend for the division well into December. Your turn. The Lions re-signed Zach Zenner before free agency opened and have Kerryon Johnson and Theo Riddick on the roster at running back, but they may be making more moves in the backfield.Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the team is hosting Spencer Ware for a visit on Monday.Ware was a 2013 sixth-round pick in Seattle, but didn’t find a regular spot in the lineup until he joined the Chiefs for the 2015 season. Ware ran for 403 yards that year and then ran 214 times for 921 yards while catching 33 passes for 447 yards in 2016.He couldn’t build on that in 2017 because he tore his PCL in the preseason. He got another chance with the first team after Kareem Hunt was released last season, but a hamstring injury knocked him out of the lineup for the final weeks of the regular season as well as the team’s playoff win over the Colts. He had one catch for 21 yards in the AFC title game loss to the Patriots.