The Minnesota Vikings have struggled all season to put points on the board. Minnesota's offense is putting up some woeful stats, and that showed following the team's game Monday with the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo defeated Minnesota, 23-6.
“Per ESPN Research: The Vikings are the first team to have 6+ wins and 3+ games without a TD over their first 8 games of a season since 1925. Both the Detroit Panthers and the Frankford Yellow Jackets matched that feat,” ESPN reported on X, formerly Twitter.
Minnesota certainly struggled on Monday. The Vikings posted just 51 rushing yards, and 178 total yards. Minnesota dropped to 6-2 on the season following the loss.
“Told the team it starts with me,” Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell said, per the team. “One hundred percent, the defense was on the field too much. Thought they battled, thought we made some plays in the kicking game, just not even close offensively to what we want to be. Thought there were some opportunities to kind of flip the game a little bit at multiple times, but we just never got Carson in a rhythm and tried a bunch of tools to see if we could help that happen; I didn't do a good enough job doing that.
“Put tonight 100% on me,” he said. “It's not about any one particular player, but we've got to improve offensively — and at a rapid pace with a divisional game on a short week.”
Minnesota's players are promising they will do better.
“The defense is playing their tails off, and we've just got to hold up our end,” Minnesota offensive lineman Christian Darrisaw said. “We've got to start taking it [from] practice to Sundays, Mondays, whenever that may be.
Minnesota has now lost back-to-back games. The Vikings will try to get back on the right track when they play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.