Minnesota Vikings Lacking in Offense on Monday Night Loss to Buffalo Bills

To win football games a team needs all three facets of the game to be working at full capacity. However, that was not the case in the final game of Week 9 of the NFL season. The Buffalo Bills traveled across country to play the leading NFC North team. It was expected to be an epic battle and it was defensively speaking. Unfortunately, the Minnesota Vikings were lacking in offense on their Monday night loss to the Buffalo Bills.

Both teams came into the contest at 6-1, and the Vikings were No. 1 in the NFC North. However, with the loss to the Bills the Chicago Bears (7-2) and Detroit Lions (6-2) vaulted over the Vikings to take the top two spots in the division. Things are looking precarious now for the Vikings after their offensive performance last night or lack thereof. On their second possession, quarterback Carson Wentz threw a pass to wide receiver Justin Jefferson. But upon further review, it was not ruled an incompletion but a fumble. The officials ruled it traveled behind the line of scrimmage and was recovered by Buffalo. And it was downhill from there for the rest of the night for the offense.

“Told the team it starts with me,” Vikings Head Coach Kevin O’Connell said postgame. “One hundred percent, the defense was on the field too much. Thought they battled, thought we made some plays in the kicking game, just not even close offensively to what we want to be. Thought there were some opportunities to kind of flip the game a little bit at multiple times, but we just never got Carson in a rhythm and tried a bunch of tools to see if we could help that happen; I didn’t do a good enough job doing that.”

Minnesota Vikings Lacking in Offense on Monday Night Loss to Buffalo Bills

Folks had not been happy with the play of starting quarterback Kyler Murray. However, they had remained undefeated with him at the helm, until last week’s loss. Now Murray is nursing a grade 2 hamstring strain and Wentz showed last night that he is not the man to right the ship. So, the Cardinals are looking for another quarterback. The NFL trade deadline ends today at 3PM central time. Therefore, they will have to move quickly if they want to make a trade.

And to add fuel to the fire they have a short turnaround this week. As, head coach Kevin O’Connell said, “Put tonight 100% on me,” he added. “It’s not about any one particular player, but we’ve got to improve offensively — and at a rapid pace with a divisional game on a short week.”

We’ll see what the Vikings personnel office can achieve before the deadline.

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