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:
Ten weeks ago, when Stefon Diggs missed two days’ worth of meetings and practice following the Vikings’ second loss of the season, rumblings surfaced through a variety of reports about the receiver’s dissatisfaction in Minnesota. That dissatisfaction, sources told the Star Tribune at the time, had brewed through the offseason and centered on several factors — the direction of the Vikings’ offense, Diggs’ place behind Dalvin Cook and Adam Thielen in the pecking order and the passing game’s lack of production among them.