It was easy to shrug off the Minnesota Vikings’ slow start to 2025. The team absorbed what felt like a season’s worth of injuries before the calendar even flipped to October.
But now 10 weeks in, it’s become painfully obvious that the real wounds plaguing the Vikings are the self-inflicted ones.
At 4-5, Minnesota has little margin for error entering what feels like a must-win home game against the Chicago Bears. The Vikings will enter that one ranked near the top of the NFL in two inglorious categories that link directly to bad football: penalties and turnovers.