First, starting in the first quarter of the first game, no one wearing purple could hold on to the football. A trend began, and now the Vikings have 26 giveaways, the third most in the NFL.
The fumbling continued, and they sat at 0-3. Soon after, Justin Jefferson, the best non-quarterback in the game, went down with an injury. Then Kirk Cousins, who deserves more credit for his accomplishments in Minnesota than he's received, was lost for the season in Week 8. Alexander Mattison, the first-choice running back at the beginning of the season, has been nothing but inconsistent all along.