Vikings cement status as NFL’s best defense with one last regular-season gem
At the end of a 16-game marathon stood one final test for the Vikings’ straight-A defense. Trailing 23-10 with less than four minutes to play, Chicago’s desperation drive moved all the way to Minnesota’s 2-yard-line, where it set up for first-and-goal.
A touchdown and the Bears were back in it, reviving the potential for an upset that could cost the Vikings a precious first-round bye in the playoffs.
Minnesota needed a stop.
First-and-goal: Minnesota stuffs Jordan Howard for no gain.
Second-and-goal: Mitch Trubisky completes a pass to Michael Burton, who immediately is brought down in the left flat for no gain.
Third-and-goal: Trubisky’s pass to Tarik Cohen falls incomplete.
Fourth-and-goal: Trubisky completes a shovel pass to Cohen, who is swallowed up by Linval Joseph and Everson Griffen at the 1, completing the goal-line stand — and one of the more impressive regular seasons in franchise history.
https://www.twincities.com/2017/12/31/vikings-cement-status-as-nfls-best-defense-with-one-last-regular-season-gem/
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
That defense was the best in the NFL this season. Minnesota finished the regular season first in yards allowed (275.9), first in points allowed (15.8) and first in third-down conversion defense (25.2 percent) — the latter number is the best in league history since the NFL started tracking the stat back in 1991.
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