Last night it was announced that, among other players, Vikings defensive tackles Kevin Williams and Pat Williams are being suspended by the NFL behind a violation of the league’s anti-doping policy. This presents an enormous problem for Minnesota. True, they could promote backups Ellis Wyms and Letroy Guion, but unfortunately, there is no way that Brad Childress didn’t just make those guys up out of thin air and take their names from the aristocratic villains from all of those Victorian-era grocery store romance novels he’s always reading.

So all of a sudden, the Vikings are in desperate need for two guys to wear a helmet and try to penetrate an imaginary line, and the rest of the NFL gets to re-draw its game plans around an opposing nine-man defense. Here are a few possible offensive schemes:

The walk-and-shoot offense. The offense just walks the ball through the hole in the defense. This only works if your players have legs. Sorry, Lions!

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