If the season slips away with a Week 4 loss, the Minnesota Vikings will be looking toward the trade market.
Failing to achieve present-day success means the emphasis must shift toward achieving future success. Nothing is worse for an NFL fan base than hopelessness. Yes, sitting through a full year of losing can be torturous but it at least offers the hope of the cavalry arriving in the draft. Plenty of Vikings fans will say that ongoing purple purgatory is far worse than descending into the depths of NFL irrelevance for a single season.
