Who Will Win the NFC North?

[Teagz]

Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay or Minnesota?

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

Packers
Bears
Lions
Vikings

 

[bosoxlover12]

Green Bay, but Chicago keeps it REALLY close

 

[Teagz]

GB
CHI
MIN
DET
 
Green Bay stays on top. Chicago finally gets back to the playoffs though. 

 

[RunRickyRun]

Vikings 11-5
Packers 11-5
Bears 9-7
Lions 7-9
 
Minny adds Jennings & a trio of impact players in the 1st round of the draft.....umm....yea.  Ponder is the only question mark and before he jacked up his arm in Week 17, the dude settled into one of the more consistent QB's of the NFL's 2nd half.
 
I don't get all the love for Chicago either.  The Bears are experience a major turnover in coaching staff, of which Jay Cutler admitted yesterday, "not everyone has bought into Marc Tressman."  Not quite what you want to hear.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

The Pack

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Packers
Bears
Vikings
Lions

 

[BlackMamba]

Vikingssss

 

[bosoxlover12]

Vikes come in last. It's a QB driven league, and reports are that both Ponder and Cassel suck badly. With Rodgers, Cutler, and Stafford.... I just don't see it in the Vikes

 

[RunRickyRun]

Vikes come in last. It's a QB driven league, and reports are that both Ponder and Cassel suck badly. With Rodgers, Cutler, and Stafford.... I just don't see it in the Vikes

Where's these reports at?  Ponder can't possibly be any worse than he was at times last season & last season he managed to lead the Vikings into the playoffs. 
 
I bet you picked the Lions and Bears over the Vikings last season too.

 

[BlackMamba]

Where's these reports at?  Ponder can't possibly be any worse than he was at times last season & last season Peterson managed to lead the Vikings into the playoffs. 
 
I bet you picked the Lions and Bears over the Vikings last season too.

 

[bosoxlover12]

I saw it on Reddit

 

[RunRickyRun]

No, no, no...while Peterson was definitely the workhorse, the Vikings' passing game came up big and provided a certain balance to the team we hadn't seen since the '09 season

 

[bosoxlover12]

No, no, no...while Peterson was definitely the workhorse, the Vikings' passing game came up big and provided a certain balance to the team we hadn't seen since the '09 season

Ponder averaged 169.4 total yards per game (rushing and passing) over his last 5 games. Knowing how he had no games of negative rushing, that 169.4 is probably higher than his passing yards per game, but im too lazy to figure that out, since I looked up the info I did. Either way, the average passing yards per game for the whole season last year for the KC Chiefs, who were last in the NFL in passing yards, was 170. So during that 5 game stretch, Ponder threw worse than the average of the worst passing team in the NFL. And Peterson's 178.6 ypg would be the best of all team's rushing yards per game
 
 
Ponder really stepped it up there. 

 

[BwareDWare94]

Everybody here (but me) picked the Vikes to be a 5 or less win team last season. If y'all remember, I told you they'd flirt with .500 at the very least. However, both sides that have presented arguments in this thread so far are likely to be wrong. The Vikings aren't a bad team, by any means, and will not finish last in the division unless they do worse than split their two opening road games. It may be a QB driven league, but last season the NFC had 3 teams without excellent QBs (Vikes, Hawks, 9ers). While both Wilson and Kaep were significantly better than Ponder was, there's no reason to believe that Ponder can't be efficient enough to get them to the playoffs. It was not a fluke year. The Vikings had 2 things that all good teams must have: A good defense, and a good kicker. Let the defeats of San Francisco and Green Bay at home, and a 23-6 smashing of Houston in Houston, do the talking. 
 
This year's Vikings team has a cake schedule if they can go 1-1 or 2-0 in their first two weeks @Detroit and Chicago.
 
Detroit still runs an absurd offense and Matt Stafford's mechanics are essentially Favre like, though he has less than half of Favre's overall talent. 
 
Jay Cutler is the perfect example of unmet potential.
 
Minnesota has likely the best defense in the division, easily the best kicker in the division, the best RB in the league, and the second best coach in the division, all quite easily. Jesus Christ, cut this team some slack. You're all basing their season on 1 player when their are 53 men on an active roster, not to mention countless coaching personnel who have an effect on game day.
 
1. Packers
2. Vikings
3. Bears
4. Lions

 

[BwareDWare94]

I mean, this isn't Kevin Kolb or John Skelton under center for Minnesota. Jesus Christ.

 

[bosoxlover12]

I'd take Kolb over Ponder


And do not ever put Kaep and Wilson in the same conversation as Ponder. Those two are Top 15, Ponder is Sanchez level

 

[BwareDWare94]

I'd take Kolb over Ponder


And do not ever put Kaep and Wilson in the same conversation as Ponder. Those two are Top 15, Ponder is Sanchez level

 
Kaep is fucking overrated. Lost the 9ers the Super Bowl all by himself.
 
Russell Wilson is legit, but who knows what year two brings?

 

[wilmyers]

All Ponder has to do is be a Trent Dilfer: hand off to Peterson, complete some short passes, and don't give the ball away.  I have to agree this team wins the division.  They actually played better once they lost Percy Harvin last season, which is of course before adding Greg Jennings and Corradelle to the offense for this season.  

 

[WHO-DEY-BENGALS_18]

I just have this feeling that the Lions are going to surprise this year with Schwartz coaching for his job and really, they have a very talented team. The offense can be about as good as any when things are going right and I expect the defense to be better this year. I'm expecting a bounce back season. Call me crazy lol