FRISCO, Texas – Some things in this game of football are hard to understand. Things happen, and you go, say what?
Like this past Sunday.
The Minnesota Vikings led the NFL in scoring defense in 2017, giving up 15.8 points per game. Only four times all regular season did the Vikings give up more than 20 points in a game. They won two of them. Only twice during the regular season did they give up more than 30. They split those two. But in the playoffs, the Vikings give up 24 in a victory over the Saints on that head-scratching prayer over the final seconds and then a season-high 38 in the NFC title-game loss to Philadelphia.