MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — That the Vikings lost to a good team was not necessarily a surprise. It was always a possibility. But to play that poorly, and to lose that badly, it’s still hard to explain how it happened. Not that they don’t know why.
“I think we all know why it went the way it did,” wide receiver Adam Thielen said. “I think it goes back to the things that coach Zimmer and this staff has been talking about since OTAs last year is, turnovers, third down conversions, third downs in the red zone, and scoring in the red zone.