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Over the course of their history, the Minnesota Vikings have had some great duos.  Cris Carter and Randy Moss come to mind as a pretty good pair, as do Brett Favre and Sidney Rice.  For the past couple of years, the Vikings had (arguably) the best backfield duo in the league in Adrian Peterson and Chester Taylor, and no list of great Viking duos would be complete without a mention of Pat and Kevin Williams.

But I'd like to know. . .who is your favorite Vikings' duo of all time?  Is it one of the ones I mentioned above, or do you have another pair that is superior to those?

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Who is the best Vikings' duo?

I appreciate the research - that's NEVER a bad idea to illustrate a point you want made. It gives everyone the understanding where you are coming from with less reason to question it.

One of the things that changed with eras was HOW MUCH $ players were making and salary cap restrictions. Unfortunately, now days there's arrogant DIVAS makign 100 million $ and refusing to show up for 2 hour practices with teammates. Back in the day, nobody had to question where football was placed on a player's priority list.

Not only that but if a guy couldn't count to 3, understand his playbook or lineup correctly - Vince Lombardi didn't need a Wonderlic to tell him this guy wasn't smart enough to be on his team. Teams building dynasties in the 60s, 70s and 80s did so trying to duplicate or compete with the advanced scouting methods established Paul Brown. Consequently, 3 NFL dynasties were constructed by former Paul Brown pupils:
1) Don Shula in Miami, 2) Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh, 3) Bill Walsh in SF.

Outside of the Paul Brown group in the 90s - Bill Polian & John Butler were masters at bringing in all the small school supporting cast starters like: Phil Hanson, Pete Metzlaars, Andre Reed, Jeff Wright, House Ballard, Ray Bentley, Mark Kelso, Don Beebe. Pretty impressive outcome of 4 consecutive Superbowl appearances. Also in the late 80s/early 90s on through to today, the Bill Parcells & BB connection had a really GOOD way of finding the right pedigree of player. They traditionally had the right kind of scouting where they had the fun players to play chess with on Sundays.

Furthermore, I said in another thread I think it's really cool that the old school coaches have been finding the undraftable QBs like Warner and Romo (Vermeil and Parcells). Bill Walsh found Jeff Garcia. Tom Brady waiting all the way until an old school Bill Belichick grabbed him near the end of round 6 wasn't far from the land of undrafted. Holmgren had late round QBs like Brunell and Hasselbeck in his GB training camps. The old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks comes from the reality that there might not be a big enough rationale to do so.
- Tom F.