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2006 Football Betting Review: The Minnesota Vikings 2006 football betting season started well, winning four of their first six games but collapsed down the stretch. Head coach Brad Childress looked over his head in 2006 and if not for a stellar defense, the Vikings may have been worse. The Vikings finished #1 against the run in 2006 and perhaps because of the great defense, coordinator Mike Tomlin was hired as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Running back Chester Taylor had a nice year and offensive lineman Steve Hutchinson was superb. In this football betting season, the Vikings also benefited from kicker Ryan Longwell who they signed away from Green Bay.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS 2006 SEASON REVIEW

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The 2006 football betting season was a turbulent time for the Minnesota Vikings.  There was upheaval to the starting line up before the football betting season in the off-season, criminal charges filed, court hearings to attend and the messy after math of “Love Boat/Viking Cruise” mess to deal with.  But the biggest of all these upheavals was the trade of Daunte Culpepper to the Miami Dolphins.  Culpepper had been the cornerstone of the foundation for a half a decade and had put up some of the best single football betting season numbers in the history of league wearing a Viking uniform.  But that was the past and the 2006 NFL betting represented the present and the future.

The present heading into the 2006 football betting season would not be the beleaguered Mike Tice.  The terrible experiment with him as a head coach had come to an end.   The future would belong to coach Childress. A no-nonsense disciplinarian who made no attempt to reach to Culpepper or the rest of the implicated members of the boating incident.  He was brought in by the owner to clean house and start over from scratch and that’s more or less what he did.  Culpepper was also hobbled badly by a severe knee injury and in hindsight it looks like Childress made the right choice jettisoning the damaged goods.
Instead Childress brought in aging journeyman Brad Johnson, the tallest QB in the NFL.  Needless to say the Vikings didn’t win in the Super Bowl football betting lines.  But for a player with so many miles on his carcass Johnson was serviceable, but by any other standard he was awful.  His 61 percent completion percentage was about the best stat he had last football betting season.  He threw for only 2700 yards and had a 72 QB rating.  But the real sickening element of his stat line was the anemic 9 touchdowns and the awful 15 INTs.  He should have been benched before the football betting season even started but he was the best the Vikes had so they kept marching him out there for more punishment and more INTs.

However, the Vikings did take a wild stab in the draft and made what most experts believe to be reach going for the unheralded Tavaris Jackson to groom as the QB of the future.  And he did get his chance to play his rookie year and was no worse than Johnson so perhaps he does have a future as an NFL starter.  In limited action he completed 58 percent of this passes, and had 2 TDs and 4 picks for a QB rating of 62.  The running game came to life in the 2006 football betting season though and the newly acquired Chester Taylor was a breath of fresh air.  The Ravens were crazy to let him go in the off-season and the Vikings got all his talent for a song.  Running behind a much improved offensive line which also made some key personnel pick ups in the football betting off-season, Taylor ran for over 1200 yards.  His 4 yards a carry kept defenses honest and his 303 carries proved his durability to an offense that struggled in the air.

Football betting fans saw how the receiving corps was less than spectacular but better than awful.  There were no 1000 yard receivers on this time which should come as no surprise considering the QBs’ awful stats.  Travis Taylor another Raven cast off hauled in 57 catches for 651 yards.  Former first round pick Troy Williamson looked even more like a bust as he managed only 37 catches for 455 yards, and worst of all, the speedster meant to stretch the field averaged only 12 yards a catch.

On the defensive side of the ball this team was surprisingly stout and was probably the only reason that this football betting team finished with the six wins it did.  It ranked eight in yards per game and first in the entire NFL against the run allowing only a stingy 61 yards per football betting game!  But that of course was offset by a league worst 238 passing yards per game.  This was truly a Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde type of defense and you never really knew which defense was going to show up for the games.  Inconsistency plagued this team for the 2006 football betting season but judging on raw talent 6-10 was about as good as this team could have hoped for.