The Vikings
The Vikings
The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians engaged in exploring, raiding and trading in waters and lands outside of Scandinavia from the eighth to eleventh centuries...
knew motivate stepped
We stepped it up big time, ... We knew that we had to step it up, because we had to find a way to motivate our offense.
backs few handle natural physically running shot talented
He's just a very natural runner, ... He doesn't have Bennett's breakaway speed, but few backs do. We know this much: He's the most physically talented running back on the roster. He just doesn't have Michael's speed. But if he can come in here and handle the load, he's got a pretty shot to be our No. 1 back this season.
beginning best goal good hope pull season since state talking team
I hope our best is good enough to get us through, ... Our team going to state is goal we've been talking about since the beginning of the season and we can still pull it off.
chance develop good open teams three tough ways
After two or three tough teams in a row, you'd like that open date, ... But it does give you the chance to develop some depth, so in some ways it's good and in some ways it can hurt.
ending finished glad good nice official rain routine saw storms worked
I just saw the shot, did my routine and it worked out. I'm very glad we finished before the rain and storms came. It was just really nice to have a good day and it was a good ending to the official season.
opportunity wonderful
be a wonderful opportunity to be utilized for families.
amazing chance work
I know we're going to have to work really hard, but we have an amazing chance to do something great.
felt lousy
It was a lousy deal, but we felt like we had to take it, ... We had other things to consider.
earned home opener scary struggling sunday televised week
The scary part of the whole thing is now this week we play a struggling team, Chicago, and everybody's going to try and give us the W before we've earned it,'' said Tice of Minnesota's nationally televised home opener Sunday night.
execution great job
it was just a great job of execution.
again difficult last lost played replace year
It's not like he did a lot for us last year anyway. What we lost is his potential, what he could be again for us if he played like he did in 2001. But if we lost what he was last year, that wasn't much anyway. That's not that difficult to replace for a month.
needed order supposed tonight
This is fun, this is the way things are supposed to be, ... We needed to get things in order the first two weeks, tonight was Huffman football.
decided feels good
feels fine. It just got tweaked. They wanted to take precautions. We had a good cushion, so they just decided to keep me on the sideline.
rankings team
I don't want to let the rankings make our team think we're automatically there,