In an up and down year for the Minnesota Vikings, the pre-season Super Bowl contender entered Sunday with one goal: beat the Chicago Bears, and they make the playoffs as a wildcard. To beat Chicago, the Vikings would have to play a good game on both sides of the ball, but this was a winnable game.
Yet the defense broke down at critical times, the offense could do very little, and at the end of the first half tensions boiled over between Kirk Cousins, Stefon Diggs, and Adam Thielen on the sidelines.