The Vikings will be one of the last four teams in the NFL to take their bye in Week 12, enjoying a chance to rest on Sunday before a five-game flurry stuffed with three prime-time matchups and two West Coast road trips.
When players departed the team facility to begin their long-awaited break on Monday, they could do so with an extra sense of relief they had avoided a defeat that would have soured the whole thing.
“It wouldn’t have been that good going in with a loss, but this definitely put the icing on it,” running back Dalvin Cook said Sunday.