NFL Insider Mark Craig
First-and-goal from the 2.
That's what the Vikings were looking at five plays after their only takeaway of the game seemed to settle the initial gut punch of falling behind 10-0 to one of the league's three winless teams.
And yet the Vikings still turned the ball over on downs.
Against an Atlanta Falcons team that was 0-5. That had just fired its general manager and its head coach. That couldn't practice last Thursday because of a COVID-19 scare and had to travel to U.S. Bank Stadium two days later.
"That was huge for momentum shift, obviously," receiver Adam Thielen said after Sunday's 40-23 loss.