With the release of the 2016 NFL regular season schedule on Thursday night, the 32 team bloggers over at ESPN have all posted their predictions for their respective teams. So, like I did last year, I thought I would take a look at what ESPN's Minnesota Vikings writer, Ben Goessling, was predicting for the purple versus how the bloggers for the teams the Vikings will play in 2016 see their teams faring.

Last year, Goessling predicted a 9-7 record for the Vikings, while the bloggers for the Vikings' opponents pegged the Vikings for a 6-10 mark. This year, Goessling has picked the Vikings to go 11-5. How does that compare to his contemporaries at the four-letter? Let's take a look.

The gap between Goessling's predictions and those of his ESPN colleagues have a slightly smaller discrepancy than they did in 2015. . .the opposing blogger predictions see the Vikings as being two games worse than Goessling sees them as opposed to the three-game gap last season. The predictions are the same in ten of the Vikings' 16 games. There are two games that Goessling has pegged as losses that the opposing blogger has predicted a Minnesota win, while there are four games that Goessling thinks the Vikings win while the other team's writer picks a Vikings' loss.

I'm probably just biased or what have you, but I don't see how the Vikings manage to have a worse record than the 11-5 mark they posted in 2015. Goessling did a much better job with his predictions for last season's team than the rest of his counterparts did. . .Packers blogger Rob Demovsky's early prediction of a 42-10 Green Bay victory in Week 17 last year is still good for a laugh. . .and there's little reason to think he won't be markedly more accurate this season as well.