For the second time in three years, the Vikings' playoff hopes hung on a pivotal home game against the Bears. Their 2018 defeat ended their season; the 33-27 loss they took on Sunday all but sealed it.
The Vikings are now 6-8, after two straight losses to teams with whom they're competing for the postseason. They won't have a winning record for the first time since 2016, and they'll have to leapfrog both the Bears and Cardinals to claim the NFC's No. 7 seed. On Sunday, they fell to a Bears team they'd held to 149 yards in the previous meeting between the two teams in November; in this game, Chicago posted 397.