The Vikings and a healthy contingent of Vikings fans traveled to Carolina on Sunday and experienced the first Vikings’ win of the season. It was an ugly win as the Vikings added two turnovers to their league-leading total, the first an egregiously bad pass by Kirk Cousins that turned into an easy pick-six for the Panthers. The second turnover was also an interception after Cousins was hit as he threw, resulting in a floating pop-fly and another easy interception for the Panthers.
But while the Vikings’ pass game was off-sync all afternoon (they had only 130 passing yards), the run game and defense especially were able to step up enough to secure the Vikings’ first victory, 21-13.