The best thing I can say about yesterday's loss is this, as bad as the Vikings played, they still could have easily won the game with two minutes to go.
How many teams could play their absolute worst game of the season and say that?
The defense, especially on those two HUGE running plays let us down. And they had two STUPID third and really long penalties that ended up giving Carolina first downs and extended drives leading to points. It hurt. Big time.
The usually sure-handed Viking receivers dropped 4 touchdown passes (to be fair it would have led to two touchdowns since multiple passes were dropped on the same series) and Rudolph dropped an easy pass in open field that would have given the Vikings great field position, instead we were forced to punt and Carolina scored on their next possession. Or how about the dropped pass that was bobbled up in the air and intercepted. Or the incomplete forward pass that traveled 15 yards in the air and was ruled a fumble... or... or...
...you get the idea.
If any ONE of those plays would have went the other way, the Vikings STILL would have won.
How good must a team be to have all of those things go wrong and still just barely lose?
The next three weeks will tell us more.
It's still the best football season we've had since Favre's first year at QB and I'm not going to let that one loss ruin it.
Skol Vikings!!!
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