Why the Minnesota Vikings will win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneeers

A friend of mine over at The Pogg asked me to give my thought’s on the Tampa Bay game with the Minnesota Vikings tonight, Thursday October 25, 2012.

And he provided a link to his article Aramon’s pick here if you want to see what he had to say. Well I thank him for nudging me to sit down and take a closer look a few hours before the football game started.

You know since I actually live in Florida one might think that I would side with Tampa bay, but upon closer inspection I just can’t.

I think The Pogg’s article is correct in one aspect and that it will be a game that it played heavily on the ground. However, that is about where I will draw the line in the sand.

I really feel that Minnesota has a superior defense and I think they will be quite effective to stop Tampa’s run game and I also think they will do a pretty good job of throughout a good bit of the game.

Will they be able to stop it completely, probably not, but I think they will do a good job of controlling Tampa’s running backs Doug Martin and LeGarrette Blount.

Now Tampa has a decent record on the road and they have done well against the Vikings the last few years but I think tonight that record will change.

They are going to have to be a little careful that Tampa may try and fool them a bit and run some passing plays when they aren’t expecting it, but I think they will have that covered pretty well too.

Since I was once again put on the spot I made my picks and will stand by it. I am picking Minnesota Vikings over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by 4. At 7 pm I took a look at they had the Vikings as a 5 1/2 point favorite at Bet Online. If you want to see what the line is now you can take a look at our matchup tool in the left navigation or visit Bet Online here.