The Vikings limited the Bears to 5-for-15 on third downs but did their best situational work in the red zone. Chicago moved the ball inside Minnesota’s 20-yard line on three separate occasions and came away with zero points on those occasions.<\/p>\n
In addition to the final series, which Isaiah Rodgers nearly ended with an interception if not for his heels landing out of bounds, Rodgers recovered a fumble at the 1-yard line after Jalen Redmond punched the ball from D’Andre Swift, a nod to former Bear Charles “Peanut” Tillman, who was at the game.<\/p>\n
Chicago drove 64 yards on 11 plays to open the second half before the timely takeaway.<\/p>\n
Rodgers also kept points off the board when he blocked a field goal to end Chicago’s penultimate possession. He screamed from the right side of the line to keep the Bears from tying the game at 6 with 6:21 remaining.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Byron Murphy, Jr., recorded an interception in the first half.<\/p>\n
Rookie first-round pick Caleb Banks showed up multiple times, finishing with six tackles, including one for a loss.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has started 2-0 against division opponents for the first time since 2003 and third time in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Here are four more observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings limited the Bears to 5-for-15 on third downs but did their best situational work in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152947,102,104,103,152950,152948,30541,41940,152949],"class_list":["post-442359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-3-observations-story","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-minnesota-vikings-at-chicago-bears-2026-reg-2","tag-news-3-observations","tag-news-index","tag-news-team","tag-vikings-at-bears-2026-reg-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}