The Vikings matched last season's loss total in their Week 5 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. This is what a competitive rebuild looks like.
Holding the Chiefs, even this iteration of them, to 27 points is enough to have a shot at winning the game — which is all you can ask for againstand Andy Reid. Had it not been for some mismanaged timeouts and a couple of questionable penalty calls, Minnesota would have held a legitimate chance to tie it up at the end of the game, anyway.
In the team's first win last week, they held the Carolina Panthers to just 13 points. The defense is getting better and grasping Brian Flores' new system. So you have to take the little wins where you can get them. The Vikings heavily outperformed expectations last season by going 13-4 and likely weren't as ready to contend as that record suggested. After all, they had a negative point differential on the season. They eked out one-score wins at a rate never seen in the NFL before . The result of that season was expectations beyond the normal range.
There was always going to be more work to do. There were always going to be ups and downs. There was always going to be regression to the mean to atone for outperforming the talent level of last season's roster.The good news: there are legitimate bricks to build upon going forward. Jefferson remains the focal point of the offense, and might be for the next decade.
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