Vikings Super Bowl odds drastically improve on the heels of Dalvin Cook’s… Heels
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Vikings Super Bowl odds drastically improve on the heels of Dalvin Cook’s… Heels
If there ever is too much of a good thing, we in Minnesota Vikings media may have taken things a bit too far with our profuse lauding of the league’s best running back and MVP, Dalvin Cook. Just here at purpleTERRITORY Media, between our two Vikings written news/analysis sites have had SIX Dalvin Cook related articles in the past 48 hours.
Not that I’m complaining.
Because of Cook’s emergence as somehow an even better running back than he was in 2019, the Vikings have not only turned around their season and stopped people in Vikings media/fandom from calling to TRADE/FIRE EVERYONE! but the chance that the Vikings, who started 2020 1-5, might end up making the playoffs (and more?) seems more real now than it has since that glorious, glorious week after the team landed Yannick Ngakoue in a trade before we knew that Danielle Hunter was out for the season and before, you know, Week’s 1/2 and whatever week that Falcons game was (I refuse to Google it because my therapist told me to move on).
While it might be hyperbolic and click bait-y to suggest that the Vikings could be a Super Bowl contender, had they had two safeties (as opposed to starting the season with back-to-back games in which Kirk Cousins was creamed for a total of 4-points), they could very well be 5-3 and on the verge of a very soft part of their schedule as potential favorites to win the NFC North now that they’ve bested Detroit, split the season series with the Packers and are favorites going into the Monday Night Football game in Chicago.
But them’s aint the ropes, as the Vikings are actually 3-5 and… Still favored to beat Chicago. But what does that mean for their Super Bowl odds? Have they changed at all since Cook’s emergence as the best back in the league?
A lot and Yes, respectively.
The odds from Sports Betting Dime have the Vikings at +10000 to win the Super Bowl, but if Dalvin Cook keeps playing like this we can certainly see the team entering within the Top 10 in a few weeks.
That’s a BIG jump from where they were even earlier this week, where many sites had them with the seventh WORST odds in the NFL at a +15000. That means that if you were to bet $10 on the Vikings winning the big game you’d essentially make … carry the two… $1,500 (and lose your soul in the process, as that sharply dressed “Vikings fan” you ran into in the woods that smelled like Sulfur? You guessed it… It was former Vikings mascot Ragnar, who cleans up nicely.
For the bullish amongst you, it might be the right time to drive down to Iowa and place a bet on our favorite squad as this team clearly has put together the right recipe in recent weeks to keep opposing quarterbacks/offenses on the sidelines and to fluster them when they are on the field. Perhaps this is what Mike Zimmer and company needed, a rag-tag bunch of corners instead of the high priced, first-round player(S), to get him outside of his comfort zone and to start playing to WIN instead of playing to NOT to lose.
Either way, I’ll be placing a dollar or two on the Vikings the next time I feel like going down to Iowa for all the … Iowa. Who’s coming with me?