Vikings at a fork in the road

[Mothman]

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/22/38 ... -road.html

This Monday? Greenway fielded questions about the struggling 2-minute defense and whether he had seen any bright spots in Indy.

"We've got to shore things up in a hurry," he said. "No excuses. No explanations. You go to work and you get it right. We got into this last year: 'Well, we did this good and that good. We didn't finish, but we had a really good first half.' Well, you're losing, so it doesn't really matter. At the end of the year, you're 3-13 and all you have is a bunch of excuses."

Suddenly, two weeks into 2012, the Vikings have reached a fork in the road.

Path A: Shrug off their early struggles off as predictable growing pains for an incredibly young team unanimously pegged as the worst in the NFC North.

Path B: Refuse to accept mediocrity and let the veterans' expectations matter most, no matter how steep the climb back toward relevance seems.

The trickiest part may be getting all 53 players to go down the same road. Because, truthfully, both paths make sense.

Still, it's clear which way the established leaders are headed. Greenway wants accountability across the board. Brian Robison and Michael Jenkins have also delivered pep talks this week. And Antoine Winfield might have given the most rousing sermon of all.

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