Special Teams – Grade: D
Well, for one week Blair Walsh isn’t the black sheep for the Vikings special teams.
This unit looked nothing like the dominating unit that has given the Minnesota Vikings a bit of a fear factor. The 98 yard kick return touchdown that the Vikings surrendered wound up being the proverbial nail in the coffin. It changed the way that the Vikings were playing the game and the Eagles had the Vikings right where they wanted them.
Marcus Sherels gets the benefit of the doubt on his fumble, it really looked like he was trying to make big things happen, it looked he was going to bring the Vikings back into the game, it looked like he was going to be the man. But we all know how that ended up. If this Minnesota Vikings team owns any 2 phases of a game it will not lose, it cannot be owned like the Eagles did on 2 phases and have more than a fools hope of winning this game.
The Fans – Grade: ?
The grade that goes here is kind of split, the band wagon has gotten quite a bit lighter. To the fans who have already written off the Minnesota Vikings after 1 loss, you get a big F, and may the wagon roll away from you so fast you cannot jump back on! It was a hard-fought game, with a disappointing ending.
To the fans out there wearing purple and gold proudly and telling off all of the band wagon jumpers. You all deserve the A, keep shaking off all the haters. The true fans watched the whole game, have been mad all week, but never gave up the Minnesota Vikings. It was disgusting, painful, and worse than any fan could have imagined. But like they say, “On any given Sunday”, it just so happened the wasn’t the Minnesota Vikings given Sunday.