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Despite uneven start, Vikings kicker Greg Joseph has coach's support

No one has missed more place-kicks through five games than your Minnesota Vikings. Yet they're unscathed. They're 4-1, atop their division and sitting No. 2 seed in their conference.

Wow. Talk about changing the culture. This is more like an exorcism.

A tortured fan base still wincing 23 years after Gary Anderson's miss watched for eight seasons as poor Mike Zimmer was tormented annually from Blair Walsh's 27-yard duck hook in the 2015 playoffs to Daniel Carlson's triple-shank Lambeau latte in 2018 to Greg Joseph's last-second chip-shot miss that dropped last year's Vikings to 0-2 and became the beginning of the end of Zim's Purple employment.