“That’s a good thing being 3-1 through four games,” receiver Adam Thielen said. But on Sunday they at least flew home with a victory that gave them their best start since 2016. 16 game at Miami, and will be even more difficult in November with back-to-back games at Buffalo and home against Dallas.īy then, the Vikings will need to be playing much better if they hope to be a playoff team. The schedule will get tougher after that, starting with an Oct. The Vikings face a mediocre Chicago team next Sunday at U.S. … Now, what I’d like to see is a little bit more consistency out of our offense and our defense to play to our standard consistently for four quarters, and it’ll be a beautiful thing.” “I think we need to continue to improve, but what I love about this team is even when adversity hits, and it really would knock a lot of teams back in this league to the point were they struggle to finish in the end, this team always wants the next opportunity. “We left a lot of points out there,” O’Connell told KFAN. At least they did get the key late Jefferson touchdown run. The Vikings made five trips inside the 20-yard line, and settled three times for Joseph field goals. And when the Vikings got into the red zone, it often was like a red light for the offense.
Quarterback Kirk Cousins put up decent numbers by completing 25 of 38 passes for 273 yards, but he threw an ugly interception in the second quarter that led to a Saints touchdown. But they lost three fumbles and committed 10 penalties for 102 yards, several coming in key situations late in the game.Īs it turned out, the Vikings barely were able to take advantage of all of that. The Saints did get a solid game out of backup quarterback Andy Dalton, who completed 20 of 28 passes for 236 yards against an often-shaky Minnesota defense. The Saints (1-3), who for starters aren’t the team they once were with Dennis Allen replacing Sean Payton as head coach, were without their starting quarterback (Jameis Winston), their best wide receiver (Michael Thomas) and their top running back (Alvin Kamara) due to injuries. Still, the game never should have been close. “You definitely don’t want to come eight hours and not get the dub,” Jefferson, who bounced back after two sub-par games game to catch 10 passes for 147 yards, told NFL Network. Joseph missed the extra point, but that did not prove fatal. But they came back to take a 25-22 lead with 4:15 left on a 3-yard run by wide receiver Justin Jefferson.
In a wild fourth quarter, the Vikings fell behind when the Saints’ versatile Taysom Hill ran in from 2 yards with 9:29 left for a 22-19 lead. We’ve been doing situational things since he got here, and it’s paying off on the field.” “Coming into this thing, we knew what we lost a lot games at, and (O’Connell) came right into this thing right away, addressing it,” running back Dalvin Cook told KFAN-AM. They blew big leads and found other creative ways to lose games. The Vikings went 2-5 in games last season decided by four points or fewer. If not, Lutz probably would have made the 61-yarder, and Minnesota, under Mike Zimmer, would have found a way to stumble in overtime. Last season, Joseph might have missed that field goal. Then they watched as Wil Lutz’s 61-yard field-goal attempt on the final play hit the left upright and bounced back off the crossbar and fell harmlessly to the turf. The Vikings took the lead for good at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at 28-25 when Greg Joseph drilled a 47-yard field goal, his fifth of the game in five attempts, with 24 seconds remaining. After all, as veteran safety Harrison Smith said, “A win’s a win.” But since it was a dramatic victory, we’ll start with the glass-half-full approach.
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