The Minnesota Vikings sail into Tampa Bay to take on the Buccaneers this week. After a very competitive loss against the Bengals in Week 1, the Buccaneers lost to the lowly Cleveland Browns. Tampa will be looking to turn around their luck against the 2-0 Vikings. The Viking offense has not looked great, as some might expect, after Kyler Murray went down. The Vikings will hope the offense can get into a rythm now that Murray is back.
Largest Victory: 49-20, 10/23/1988
Largest Defeat: 41-13, 10/29/2000
Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma (gross) will be on the call for Fox in the late afternoon window.
There is certainly some uncertainty with the Vikings offense. It will be interesting to see what the offense looks like with Kyler at the helm for an extended period of time. The Vikings will be thin at running back, so they’ll likely depend on Murray to move the chains. That being said…the Vikings lead the league in sacks and the Buccaneers can’t block anyone. It’s going to be hard to see a way Tampa’s turnover prone offense is going to succeed against this Vikings defense that comes into the game on an absolute tear. I can’t see the Vikings allowing Baker Mayfield to disrupt that momentum.