Welcome to our morning-after Vikings blog, where we’ll revisit every game by looking at three players who stood out, three concerns for the team, three trends to watch and one big question. Here we go:
At the beginning of the third quarter on Sunday, Fox’s Pam Oliver relayed a conversation she’d had with Mike Zimmer, during which the Vikings coach said the team’s offense was trying to be “too cute” in the first half, and needed to run more in the second half, rather than trying to throw the ball all over the field. The Vikings, who ran the ball on only 13 of their 35 plays in the first half, tried 14 runs on 31 second-half plays, but still ended up with their second-worst rushing day of the season, failing to surpass 100 yards for the first time since their Week 4 loss to Chicago.