The Vikings are tuning out the doubters and focusing on the Super Bowl
The Minnesota Vikings (10-2) have a chance to clinch the NFC North this weekend with a win over the Detroit Lions (5-7).
The Vikings are certainly the odds-on favorite to come out of the North, but they've got their sights set higher than that. FiveThirtyEight gives Minnesota an 11% chance to win the NFC's No. 1 seed and thus clinch a first-round bye in the playoffs.
Osborn basically said that the Vikings don't care about who says what and that they have the "nobody wants us to be here" mentality. All they care about is being in the Super Bowl conversation when February rolls around.
Minnesota's sights are set even higher than that, though, per wide receiver K.J Osborn.
Osborn was speaking to former All-Pro corner and Super Bowl champion Ronde Barber for The 33rd Team. Barber asked the Minnesota wideout if the Vikings' locker room has a sense of "us against the world", especially considering the fact that they're two-point underdogs to the Lions this weekend.
"People want us to win how they want us to win. And I mean, there's no bad win. If you win you win, and we've done it 10 times" Osborn said.
Osborn mentioned how the team felt that people were doubting them even after the Vikings went to Buffalo a few weekends ago and knocked off Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills — a team many feel can be a Super Bowl contender.
"We come out and we beat them and people still doubt us. At this point, we want people talking about us at the end. We don't really care about the favorites. None of the experts can go out there and play for us or for the opposite team. At this point, we don't really care how they talk. We just want to be talked about at the end. That's in the Super Bowl."
Per FiveThirtyEight, the Vikings have a 7% chance of winning the Super Bowl. If they go out and beat the Lions in Detroit — a team the oddsmakers believe will give them trouble — that percentage goes up one click to 8%, and it's one game at a time from there on out for Minnesota.
The Vikings certainly have the talent, and it sounds like they have the belief within their locker room as well.
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