In games against struggling quarterbacks like Baker Mayfield (59.5 passer rating) or Jimmy Garoppolo (87. The Vikings’ run defense may be a more accurate scapegoat. While they’ve made life occasionally stressful for opposing quarterbacks, they’ve brought twice as much stress on themselves in their refusal to take advantage. Blaming bad bounces may be an over-simplification. We could be better on both ends of the ball, converting those turnovers into touchdowns and on defense creating more turnovers.” But those opportunities slipped away from us. Find a way, because there are opportunities out there on the defensive side of the ball where we could’ve had more turnovers.
“But we’re a team, we’re in this together and we just have to find ways to be better in those situations. Why the Bears were scheduled for a second straight prime-time game is beyond comprehension. Most of the game was a mistake-filled fiasco. “With me not being on the offensive side of the ball, I can’t tell you why we couldn’t get the points we wanted off of those turnovers,” said cornerback Patrick Peterson. Bears, Vikings both make plenty of mistakes. Sunday’s loss was also Zimmer’s first when his team intercepted three passes. For instance, they are just the third NFL team in history to go +2 in the take/give, commit zero turnovers and lose in three separate games.
Takeaways haven’t been the usual elixir that the Vikings used to punish opposing quarterbacks in the past. Let me get this out of the way: the Vikings didnt deserve to beat. “I don’t know if that’s complementary football or not, but it wasn’t good enough today.” The Vikings didnt lose the game because of the refs, but these two calls couldve changed things had they gone the other way. “When you get interceptions and turnovers, you want to score,” Zimmer said.
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