MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings missed the playoffs by one game in a season with two losses by one point and two other one-score defeats.
This finish, though, was hardly a close call.
The prevailing feeling from the Vikings in bidding a not-so-fond farewell to 2020 was a full realization they weren’t good enough to keep playing even with the NFL’s addition of a third wild-card spot. Their recovery from a 1-5 start to stay in contention until the second-to-last week was admirable, but all the Vikings had to show for their final six games were three wins against bottom-eight teams in the league — by a total of six points.