Vikings Pro Bowler’s Once-Sentence Reaction to the Mayhem
Brian O’Neill’s reaction to the chaos, tomfoolery, and pandemonium on Sunday was likely related to yours.
The Minnesota Vikings edged the Buffalo Expenses in Week 10, 33-30, in a video game that convulsed several occasions during the ultimate 60 minutes of actual-time. Before the contest, oddsmakers pegged the Expenditures as Tremendous Bowl favorites.
“There is no way,” Brian O’Neill told reporters soon after the game, commenting on the opportunistic defensive touchdown by linebacker Eric Kendricks.
Buffalo had Minnesota dead to rights in the 4th Quarter after the Vikings failed to rating a touchdown in a purpose-to-go scenario. Kirk Cousins’ quarterback sneak fell short by a whisker, and all the Expenditures experienced to do was shimmy the ball out of the endzone, kneel it thereafter, and Minnesota would’ve fallen to 7-2.
But no cigar.
Quarterback Josh Allen took the snap inside of the Charges just one-yardline — and fumbled. The Vikings defense collectively pounced like mosquitos to blood while Kendricks was unearthed from the pile with the pigskin.
Landing Vikings.
Of study course, the game did not finish with Kendricks’ landing — it just was not permitted to with all the malarkey — but it did reduce the Vikings from losing. And we’re speaking unavoidable defeat. The Vikings odds of profitable at the time of Kendricks’ landing ended up almost nil. Allen required to place his kneecap in the grass, and that would’ve been it.
But, for this model of Vikings, no video game is about. And Sunday’s shenanigans emphatically proved so. Minnesota has received seven straight video games, which all abide by the exact wavelength. The 1st Quarter is rosy, the next two intervals are frequently woeful, and the 4th Quarter is kingly.
The Vikings next play the Dallas Cowboys at U.S. Bank Stadium, the place Dallas is by some means favored to get by one particular place. Even with Minnesota’s by no means-die frame of mind, sportsbooks have not endorsed purple religion with entire embrace.
But that’s ok. The Vikings will just have to continue profitable these “there’s no way” game titles.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. He hosts a podcast with Bryant McKinnie, which airs each and every Wednesday with Raun Sawh and Sal Spice. His Viking fandom dates back to 1996. Shown guilty pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ and The Doors (the band).
