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He stayed at Omni last night after the Vikings made the late return trip home from Denver Vikings on the road. Primetime football last night but they do not return home with their sixth consecutive victory.
The winning streak ends at five.
The Vikings lose last night twenty one to twenty to Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos in the Mile High City. Vikings now six and five in the season, still firmly in the playoffs. That's how muddy the NFC is this year. But they win streak ends at five, and you know what time to start a new one? A week from tonight, Vikings Monday Night Football hosting the Bears. The Broncos, meanwhile,
have won four straight. And you know, this is one of those games where you hate to simplify things too far or drill something so far down to something so basic and fundamental. In a game in which the Vikings offense had seventy plays last night, they dominated time of possession. Okay, so if I told you that the Vikings offense had the ball for nearly thirty five minutes, you'd love that. What about the Vikings defense. They held the Broncos to five field goals. You'd love that they were five in
the red zone last night. You'd adore that. You'd love that they were two of twelve the Broncos offense on third down, that they had less than three hundred yards of total offense in that game. You love all of those things and you'd be thinking that's a victory, right. The turnovers three turnovers last night by the Vikings offense certainly the tied turner in terms of making a win or taking a win and making it a loss. Very frustrating game, I'm sure for all involved out there, frustrating
as a Vikings fan. An opportunity to continue the win streak fell short because of some takeaways by the Broncos defense, who now have twelve turnovers created by that defense in their last three games. What a run for the Broncos, and that's a story of their four game win streak.
Next segment, you're going to get to hear Kevin O'Connell right after the Vikings loss and the previous five games were wins, but Ben Lieber gets the chance to sit down with him for an exclusive postgame interview that airs exclusively on Kfan. You'll hear that next segment, But let's rewind to the action where Josh Dobbs, playing in his third game for the Vikings, made his second start last night and Vikings get the ball to start this one,
and as I mentioned earlier, turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. For the fifth time this season, the Vikings cough up the ball on their very first offensive possession.
Dobbs shot done for the first time this game.
Now TJ. Hawkinson goes under center and he tosses it to Dobbs who runs.
Around the left side and countered behind the line of primit.
And he dropped the ball and the Broncos have it.
The opportunistic Broncos turned over the Vikings on a trick play and the bumble recovery goes to Jaquan McMillan, second.
Year corner from East Carolina.
The Broncos have turned over the Minnesota Vikings.
A lot to sink your teeth into.
On that opening drive, Joshua Dobbs actually fumbled it twice in the first three plays of the game. Very first center to quarterback exchange, josh drops the ball, ends up getting it to Madison for a seven yard run. And then on that play right there, a little bit of trickery.
It was TJ.
Hawkinson under center, he flips it to Dobbs. Didn't seem like it was blocked up very well. He gets absolutely crushed right at the first down marker.
It was third and one.
A lot of people questioning last night, Hey, third and one, just handed off to Madison, Just hand it off to ty Chandler. Maybe you do a quarterback sneak. You have a lot of options in that spot. Was the trick play necessary? Kind of gets into the territory of well, if it works, we love it. It could have been an explosive play if it was blocked up right, all of
those things. Kareem Jackson, who's just returning from a suspension for the Denver Broncos, by the way, was fined like fifty grand and week five or six for just nasty illegal hits, suspended for four games, appeals it to two, comes back from suspension immediately just spears Josh Dobbs on that play, helmet to helmet, it's not called Vikings end up turning the ball over there on the fumble, and thankfully this Vikings defense came to play last night, holding them simply a Will lutzfield goal.
Watts is seventeen of nineteen on field goals thirty one yard try right half snapspot Will Lutz, the former Saint nails it and the Denver Broncos have taken a three zero lead.
So in some ways you're happy because the Vikings limited the damage. Still bitter, however, that you open up the game with the giveaway when you're looking at a Broncos team who have done nothing but feast on them over their winning streak. Nine turnovers created by the defense in the last two games, nine turnovers and wins over the Chiefs and Bills ten total over their three game win streak.
That's an a topic into a game.
When you identify super massive outlier stats like that, that's a focus, and the Vikings failed to observe that at least for the opening drive. Teams exchange a couple of ponts three nothing Broncos, and then the Vikings embark on a ten play drive, absolutely beautiful with explosive.
Runs like this from Madison bike.
Zoe if two on third down hand off Alexander Madison, he's encountered in the backfield, takes the tackle, breaks another, and he's backing Broncos to the twenty took up fifteen. Alexander Madison came to play tonight baby fourteen yard run first down to the Vikings deep in the first quarter.
So early in the game, you try a trick play doesn't work, turn the ball over. This time third and one, they just handed off to Madison. He goes for fourteen or fifteen yards and the Vikings are in business. And on the first play of the second quarter they capped it off with a touchdown bird and short from the Broncos three and Dops goes play action, rolls out to the right, Jonathan Cooper's.
All over him. Dobbs goes down to his knees to the end zone.
Touchdown, Josh Dobbs to Josh Oliver and the Minnesota Vikings have taken the lead six ' three And they had Josh dead to rights, but.
He's so strong he wouldn't go down and the Vikings lead.
And there's some of that Obs magic now on the play he rolls out probably could have easily found Alexander Madison for a touchdown, so he didn't have the dramatics on the boundary as he had to shake off a defender to then find Josh Oliver for the touchdown. But in the end at six points, Vikings lead seven to nothing.
After the extra point, then they.
Force a three and out by the Broncos offense and are right back at it with nine plays another fifty five yards and big plays like this to TJ.
Hawkinson, two receivers left, temper rushes, four dobs, great drop, he's still in the pocket. Now he's just gonna heave it to a wide upen Hawkinson caught up to fifteen chop.
Down at the.
Ten by Coreem Jackson. Twenty nine yard hit to an uncovered TJ. Hawkinson and it's person in Gole, Minnesota.
Sadly, the Vikings couldn't convert that into a touchdown. They were two of four in the red zone last night. If they get six on either of those two missed opportunities in the red area, then if you're doing the simple math, then you translate.
That into a Vikings victory.
But they settled for a short Greg Joseph field goal ten to three lead late stages of the first half, Broncos respond couple of explosive plays, one to Jerry Judy, one to Courtland Sutton. They get on the board with another field goal, so now it's ten to six, and there was a moment where Vikings had the ball. It was third and short in Broncos territory. They throw the ball, it's incomplete, and then they punted on fourth and one
ends up being a touchback. Russell and the Broncos able to convert another field goal right at the buzzer of the second quarter to make it ten to nine at the break, and the Vikings defense back on the field with that one point lead to start the third quarter, and they force another punt, and they force another punt because DJ Wantam in the mix, Daniil Hunter in the mix, and these guys were making plays.
Second and seventeen from the eighteen and Wilson's out of the shotgun. It's a screen left and that thing has blown up immediately at the fifteen yard line by Daniil Hunter. Hunter was able to capture McLachlin for a loss of three. So for Daniel Hunter, that is his second tackle for loss of this game, sixteenth this season, which leads everybody in the NFL. It's third down, and how about DJ Wantum Listen takes the snap on third down looking left, steps up.
Hey sacks Russell Lostam was sacked.
At the eighteen yard line.
Dj Wantum, DJ got him.
I'm actually getting ahead of myself here. That was from later in the game. I just got excited while hearing that Daniel Hunter highlight. The combination of what Danil's doing gaming game out and now DJ wantum and how he is finally We've been waiting for it a bit, but he is finally just exploded on the scene. How good he's been pending free agent. So another money related conversation down the road, but DJ want him. Another terrific game last night. But back to that first drive of the
third quarter. The Broncos punt, so it's Vikings ball, first possession of the third quarter for them, it's nine plays, it's sixty nine yards. And while we've seen it now in the third game with Josh Dobbs, if if he can't find somebody to throw it too, he'll just run it himself.
Hurt Nate tops out of the shotgun, looks left, steps up, runs to the ten five touchdown. Joshups put a ten yard rushing touchdown in the Minnesota Vikings lead sixteen nine.
I'll tell you last night, I'm watching this game and I'm feeling because I'm emotional, and I'm a thirty eight year old man.
Child it feels to me in this moment, and you.
Combine that with, by the way, the ensuing possession by the Broncos, they go three and out. So now it's midway through, there's six and a half minutes left. As the Broncos punt, you're up seventeen to nine. That Broncos offense is not scoring a touchdown. This Vikings team is not going to lose this game. All they have to do is hold on to the ball. I was listening to the radio call on my way in to do fan line. I even heard the announcer mentioned it a
couple of times. If we just don't turn it over, there's really no way we can lose this game. That's how lopsided it was last night. With our offense commanding time of possession, their offense sputtering to dead halts and punting all day.
It was so one sided in that.
Moment until the next drive was six and a half minutes left. Riley Dixon punts it. It's a touchback Vikings ball six plays, forty six yards and the.
Fumble Johnny Munt in motion behind Dobbs, who's under center handoff.
Heleen all on her now said he dropped it. Flag on the play.
It was recovered by Josie Jewel i ser Madison fumble and Jewel fell on it at the thirty five yard line.
Yeah, so it's Broncos ball, and this would be the drive once again where dj Wanham gets that sack on third down.
You heard that.
So they settle for Will Lutz's fourth field goal of the night. So now it is seventeen twelve Broncos.
Now we need to respond.
Let's get this offense moving again. But on the ensuing possession, our response one play and another turnover.
Dobbs has sixteen rushing yards. Be nice to get about a fifteen here. For fifteen goes back to pass Hennessy crows. No, he threw it right to a Bronco after it was deflected Dan. The interception goes the way of Jaquan McMillan and eleven yard return and another Vikings turnover.
Is keeping this Broncos team in the game.
Indeed, it's just an avalanche of bad news. You get the fumble, then you get the interception there and Vikings defense continue to stand tall, and it's Will Lutz with his fifth field goal of the night.
Will Lutz with a twenty eight yard try left hash high snap.
It's put down by Dixon and that's a high five for will Watsy's five five on field.
Goals, seventeen fifteen, still in favor of the Vikings, ten and a half minutes left in the game. Some people are mad at Madison because of that fumble. Other people, if you look at Ty Chandler whipping in pass protection that ends up forcing that Dobbs interception. If we can just combine the traits of those two, what kind of.
Running back would we have? Maybe the perfect one, who knows.
But in the end, Ty Chandler I mentioned he had ten carries for seventy three yards, so seven point three a carry.
You love that.
Thirty one of them came on a fake punt in our own territory.
Here is a fake.
It is a fake, and it worked.
And here comes Time Chandler right side across the fifty to the bro coast forty and the Vikings get a first down on a.
Piece of trickery.
It's thirty two for thirty two with nine oh five and running to go in the game. The Vikings flit the field and keep the ball with a two point lead.
What a play, What a call by head coach Kevin O'Connell. It's fourth and four at your own thirty one yard line, and he calls that fake punt. You could tell in some ways the coach was feeling it that you had just given up that field goal. You're still leading, but the tide is turning. You got to do something. We got a hold onto the ball and he did that thirty one yards from ty Chandler. That's all part of a fourteen play, sixty three yard drive that took nearly
eight minutes off the clock. They do have to settle for a field goal, however, So now it is twenty to fifteen in favor of the Vikings and with three seventeen left. Russell Wilson He's won eight of his nine games against the Minnesota Vikings in his career, whether it's Seattle and now Denver, and well, he's done this a few times before. Ten plays seventy five yard drives resulting in touchdowns like this to Courtland.
Suck Hurston ten from the Vikings fifteen. Wilson takes the snap, Vikings rush six, Russell throwing it to the end zone, pot Cortland's cutting touchdown and.
Makaive Blackman come out up to the.
En zone fifteen yard touchdown for Portland Sutton. Excellent work by Russell Wilson, because the pocket collapsed on him. Like the Hall of Famer he will be, he stepped up so adroitly bound to Sutton. Portland now has eight touchdowns this year, and the Broncs are taking a twenty one to twenty lead.
With a minute three to go.
The Broncos would attempt to go for two to make it twenty three to twenty a field goal game. They fail on the conversion, but the Vikings take over just over a minute. They got all three timeouts, just have to go thirty five forty yards to give Greg Joseph a real chance. They sput her out, who's completely disjointed. Game ends twenty one to twenty is the final. The Vikings are now six and five in the season, and because of turnovers, nine points off of those turnovers held
them to field goals. The bend but don't break aspect of it was in play, but three turnovers nine points in a one point final.
Score means a lot.
Next up Monday night against the Chicago Bears, just after this Thanksgiving holiday.
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info and a full schedule. Played the highlights and some low lights from yesterday's twenty one to twenty prime time defeat the Vikings at the hands of Russell Wilson's Broncos twenty one to twenty the final score. Ben Leeber always gets a chance to sit in the office with the coach, Kevin O'Connell and get his thoughts shortly after the win or in this case of loss, and here's their conversation from last night.
Does this game basically just boil down to the minus three the take give and the lack of getting the ball away?
Yeah, I mean, there's no question we talked about it was kind of the first thing we talked about this week as a football team is that's what the Denver Broncos had been really gaining a lot of momentum doing here at this point in the season was forcing turnovers and getting points off those turnovers. So losing it three to nothing tonight and the turnover margin was disappointing for sure. Thought defensively their ability to respond and hold them to
three was big. And really, when you lose the turnover battle three to nothing and you still have a chance down one at the end and maybe give g a swing at it to win the football game, I think that's a credit to the team effort.
But those turnovers were critical.
And they will continue to be a winning and losing stat for every team in this league. It just creates a lot of things to overcome. It provides a lot of opportunity on a night when our defense was limiting some of those opportunities to win the time with possession the way we did run the football the way we did, there was a lot of things really good in all three phases of the fake execution by Matt Daniels. Guys, there was a lot to try to win the football
with tonight. I credit our guys for their effort, but in the end, you know, the turnover battle will always be the story of every season, not just this season. Going on the road and losing it three nothing.
You know, it seemed like there was some lack of downfield shots and attempts. That was that a product of game planed by you guys or something you guys saw that the Broncos defense was doing to kind of take that stuff away.
No, we you know, we called a few of them. We definitely called a few of them. They were you know, they've got some good safeties that you know that played in the deep.
Part of the field.
Well, we were able to get some isolations here and there, but you know, definitely want to try to get more chunk plays when you're running it the way you are, the way we were and kind of controlling the time of possession. We mixed in some shots here and there. I thought, Josh, check the ball down on a couple of those shots and gain some real positive yardage.
So we'll keep on trying to build, you.
Know, the different ways of getting vertical on people, you know, through how we want to run our offense.
But I thought we moved it well enough.
I would have loved to finish in the red zone a couple more times with touchdowns. But across the board, you know, it all circles back to one stat when you go on the road, you can't do those things, and we did, and I've got to fix that and we'll go right back to work.
You know, ty Chandler has been getting a lot more opportunities, obviously because of some injury and other things going on with the running back room. But I believe he goes over for seven years over seven yards of carry tonight has a huge you know, almost twenty yards on that on that third and twenty swing pass. What have you seen from his improvement game by game.
Yeah, I just his explosiveness shows up. You can feel him on the field as far as his ability to not only be explosive, you know, with speed and bursts, but he's a physical, hard runner.
I thought the way Alex and him.
Really complimented each other tonight was really what we're looking for. You know, there's really a scenario where we feel really good about both those guys in the game and really keeping them both fresh, riding the hot hand, maybe on a drive here or there, but we really want to see both those guys out there getting touches, some designer type plays for.
Tie with how explosive that he is.
And I thought just across the board, both those guys, you know Alex, you know, had the critical fumble there when we had just kind of earned a new set of downs on the plus thirty four going in and listen, Alex ran very well tonight, ran very hard, just had that one.
You know, they get the ball out there.
We'll continue to find ways Ben to you know, move the football, running it, you know, getting our explosives when we can, hoping to get you know, JJ back at some point here where you know, there's been a lot of experience and growth through this offense, not only just with Josh coming aboard and moving the team the way he has, but just with all all of our guys
really settling in. I told our guys after the game, you know, we we know what wins and loses football games in this league, and I believe we've got everything we need in that locker room and then some to go. Just go back to work this week and prove I have a big you know, NFC North matchup back at home. We'll be looking forward to getting back on the grass and competing again.
So last one is you mentioned the defense with all those takeaways that Denver had only nine points. You know, they did not score a touchdown off of those takeaways, but you know they just got a little bit leaky on that last game winning drive. A lot of little checkdowns to p Ryan, like, what did you see from from what they did on that last drive, what we were doing?
How were they able to score that touchdown?
Yeah, and you know Russell Wilson's you know, he's had a lot of those in his career and thought they did. They moved the ball, they took some checkdowns, they were able to kind of just keep on pushing it down the field and getting into the scoring range, and then they made a play. We were looked like we were right there on that throw and they just made a pitch and catch there. Two really good players. Listen, flows guys, the way they battled all night. They've once again, I thought,
you know, had a very very solid performance. They just you know, they got the score in the two minute, and then you know, that's where we've got to go back on the field as an offense like we've done many times, and go find a way to at least give Greg a swing at it and give them credit for getting the stop there.
At the end, it's Kevin O'Connell with Ben Lieber after last night's game, and it wraps up Vikings Rewind presented by Omni Viking Lakes. You can book your stay today go to omnihotels dot com slash Viking Lakes. The wind streak is dead, which means it's time to start a
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