The last three games were a beautiful thing to see.

[PSBLAKE]

When the Vikings played each of these teams they were all coming off wins and getting pumped by the national media.

Redskins on the ROAD: (Remember when we could not buy a road win).  Redskins just beat Seattle in a tough game and the National media was really talking them up as a contender.  Vikings go in take care of business on the road and beat a good team in their house.  Except for the uncharacteristic turnovers the Vikes would have blown them out.

The Rams:  Talk about a team that looked unstoppable.  They demolished a good Texans defense and were the highest scoring offense in the NFL.  The hype around the Rams was nauseating especially from the Fox team calling the game.  The Vikings held this team to 7 points....7.  Dominated them in every phase of the game and the Fox team still were wondering in the fourth quarter if the Vikings were for real?

Lions:  Thanksgiving, biggest regular season stage in the NFL.  The Lions had the Vikings number the last three games and the Vikings dominated from start to finish on the road on a huge stage.  Yes the Lions made it interesting but the Vikings were just an obviously better team and played that way,

THREE impressive wins against VERY good teams.  Impressive and in years past to lose all three of these games and be having to make excuses hoping we can squeak into the playoffs would be the norm.  This team has a championship attitude.

[Guest]

Been a great run...I'm going to savor this a bit then look ahead.

I hope we're batting .500 over the next 2 tough road games

• @ ATL
• @ Carolina

That would then leave us 10/3 with 2 of our 3 remaining games @ home:

• Cincinnati
• @ Lamblow
• Bears

[Guest]

Yup I am still predicting 14-2 but we need to split the next two and then sweep the last three and we have the second seed wrapped up

[Guest]

Those are the types of games the Vikings would find ways to lose in the past:

• Washington: The defense had an off game. Keenum threw two picks and they blew a big lead, but they did enough to hold onto a big early lead and win.
• Los Angeles: Good defense and a balanced offense capable of putting up big points. Defense was bad on the first (scripted) series. They almost let the Rams back into the game towards the end of the first half, but Ant Harris made a huge play stripping Kupp at the 1, which seemed to deflate the Rams.
• Detroit: Similar to the Washington game. Built up a big lead early, the defense gets soft, and the Lions claw their back into it. Game gets within 4-points, but the D comes to life and holds Detroit without a 1st down for the final 14-minutes.

It is interesting how they've built up big early leads, but have then faltered and let the opposing team back in. Especially in the Detroit game, it seemed like once they got up big, the coverage softened and the dialed back the blitzes. It nearly worked, but there's very little margin for error, so a penalty here or there ends up extending drives and letting the opponent back into the game. I did like how they were spying Stafford to keep him from running, but they were putting a lot of pressure on a secondary that had a bad day. Maybe it was the short week and Rhodes being banged up, but the secondary play was not good.