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Sent a text Tuesday morning to a member of the Minnesota Vikings coaching staff to compliment the performance in the teams Monday Night Football victory over the?New York Giants. Nike Shox Nz Black And White 2015 . The response?Thanks. Can get a lot better.Some will posit the Vikings 5-0 start as one of the early-season NFL surprises. The Vikings themselves are not surprised. They have believed, through the entire offseason and after major injuries to their quarterback, star running back and left tackle, that they were built to withstand anything and win a championship. The evidence weve seen so far makes it tough to argue.Sunday, the Vikings wiped the floor of their new stadium with the Houston Texans, a 2015 playoff team that has its own designs on the postseason. The Vikings?are 2? games ahead of the Packers in the NFC North, and one of their five wins is a head-to-head victory over Green Bay. The Vikings have a pass defense thats allowing just 210 air?yards per game and a turnover differential of plus-11 through five games.They also have next week off, then a post-bye schedule that starts with?Philadelphia Eagles?rookie quarterback Carson Wentz and either Brian Hoyer or Jay Cutler in Chicago.This is no mirage. The Vikings traded their first-round pick for Sam Bradford a week before the start of the season because they knew they had a team built to contend for a Super Bowl title. Plenty has happened that has offered them opportunity for doubt -- the Teddy Bridgewater injury that prompted the Bradford trade, the Adrian Peterson and Matt Kalil injuries, the injury that kept top wide receiver Stefon Diggs out of Sundays game. But people in the Vikings building say the message from coach Mike Zimmer has been consistent throughout.Zimmer has consistently told his team its good enough to dream the biggest dreams even amid dizzying bad luck. And the way the Vikings are performing makes it clear they believe him.Start with Bradford, who showed up so close to the start of the season that they actually held him out of the first game and started Shaun Hill at quarterback. Since he took over, Bradford has been exactly what the coaches need him to be -- a smart, steady, competent leader of the offense. He has a 70.4 completion percentage with six touchdown passes and no interceptions. The Vikings believed when they acquired Bradford that they could run a play-action game and let him take shots down the field, and he has. According to ESPN Stats & Information, Bradford connected on five of his first six throws of 25 or more yards this season, and two of those were touchdowns.The Vikings thought Bradford could do what they needed him to do, and even though they were crushed to lose Peterson, they had a template in place from two years ago to build a run game around Jerick McKinnon and Matt Asiata. Theyre pleased with what theyve seen from the offensive linemen who have had to step into larger roles. The offense has not turned the ball over once. It is doing its job.But what makes these Vikings a Super Bowl contender is the defense, especially against the pass. Opposing passers are completing just 55.5 percent of their passes against Minnesota, averaging 209.8 yards per game with four touchdowns and seven interceptions. The Vikings have sacked opposing quarterbacks 19 times for a total of 135 lost yards. The quarterbacks they played before they waxed Brock Osweiler on Sunday were Marcus Mariota, Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton and Eli Manning.This Vikings start is real, and its sustainable. No, they arent going to win all 16 games or go through the season without a turnover. But you can make a strong case that they have already made it through the toughest part of their season -- the one in which their whole offense fell apart thanks to injuries, and they had to face a run of MVP and Super Bowl quarterbacks. Zimmer doesnt have to keep telling his team its good enough to contend for a title. At this point, theyve figured that out for themselves. Nike Shox r4 Womens Running Shoes All White . -- Anaheim Ducks defenceman Luca Sbisa will be out at least six weeks with a torn tendon in his right hand. Cheap Nike Shox Uk . -- Vincent Lecavalier got everything but the desired result in his return to Tampa Bay. http://www.cheapshoxsaleuk.com/cheap-nike-shox-nz-eu.html . The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. WHICITA, Kan. -- Landry Shamet and Daishon Smith each set career highs with 16 points and the Shockers shot 66 percent from the floor in a 116-79 victory over Maryland-Eastern Shore on Sunday.The last time the Shockers scored at least 110 points was against North Texas on March 1, 1962.Austin Reaves scored a career-high 15 points, Zach Brown had 13 points, Conner Frankamp 11 with five assists and Darral Willis Jr. added 11 points, all in the first half, for Wichita State (4-0).Shamet and Frankamp hit consecutive 3-pointers and thhe Shockers surged early, doubling the Hawks 21 points on Markis McDuffies layup en route to a 62-37 halftime lead. Nike Shox Nz UK. The Shockers shot 73 percent from the floor (19 of 26) in the first half.Smiths 3-pointer with 5:55 left put Wichita State over the 100-point mark.Ryan Andino scored a career-high 27 points on 9-of-15 shooting for the Hawks (0-4), who shot 49 percent from the floor (27 of 55). Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '