Minnesota Vikings: Six observations from the Vikings opening loss

Sep 14, 2015; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Minnesota Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph (82) is defended by San Francisco 49ers safety Antoine Bethea (41) at Levi

The Minnesota Vikings game was very ugly on Monday night. Nothing went quite right for the Vikings and that resulted in a 20-3 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Plus, you might have been exposed to Chris Berman for a whole game, my home decided it was better to listen to music with the game on mute. Even great music didn’t make the game go down well.

When I say everything was ugly, I mean everything. Offense and defense both showed a lot of flaws in the ballgame. The only real positives were that the Vikings did block a field goal and recovered a muffed punt, but as the score suggests, the team didn’t really take advantage of their special team success in those instances.

The game got me thinking about multiple things, so I thought I’d share those thoughts with you all right here. I have compiled six things that occurred to me throughout or after the Monday night game. In the future weeks, I hope that this list will be a whole lot more positive than what crossed my mind in Week 1.

A 20-3 loss just doesn’t give a whole lot of positives to talk about.

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