Blair Walsh's regular-season numbers aren't great, but they're not all that alarming, either. The Vikings' place-kicker is 3 for 4 on field goals and 2 for 3 on the new, longer point-after kicks in two games.
What has Vikings fans on edge is a body of work that started during the preseason.
In five exhibition games, Walsh made 5 of 11 field-goal attempts and 10 of 11 extra points. It didn't help that he missed his first field-goal attempt of the season, a 44-yarder that would have given the Vikings a 3-0 lead in their 20-3 Monday night loss at San Francisco on Sept.