{"id":370931,"date":"2025-12-26T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370931\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:27:12","slug":"vikings-become-rare-team-to-win-by-10-or-more-points-with-10-or-fewer-net-passing-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370931\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings become rare team to win by 10 or more points with 10 or fewer net passing yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings saw three net passing yards come sailing in, on Christmas Day in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that they still won the game is stunning. And historic.<\/p>\n<p>Via Josh Dubow of the Associated Press, Minnesota\u2019s 23-10 nail-in-the-coffin to Detroit\u2019s playoff hopes was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoshDubowAP\/status\/2004369318897983927?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">only the fifth time<\/a> in the Super Bowl era that a team won a game by 10 or more points with fewer than 10 net passing yards. It hadn\u2019t happened in 47 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers beat the Chargers, 24-3, in 1978 with nine net passing yards. The Packers beat the Rams, 17-6, in 1974 with minus-one net passing yards. The Cardinals beat the Falcons, 32-10, in 1973 with nine net passing yards. And the Lions beats the 49ers, 26-14, in 1969 with one net passing yard.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Max Brosmer completed nine of 16 passes for 51 yards for the Vikings. Brosmer was sacked seven times, losing 48 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Brosmer nor the rest of the Minnesota offense coughed up the ball. The Minnesota defense forced six turnovers \u2014 including five from quarterback Jared Goff.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings deserve plenty of credit for playing to win despite being eliminated from playoff contention 11 days ago. After starting 4-8, they\u2019ve now won four in a row.<\/p>\n<p>And the Lions deserve plenty of blame for failing to deliver a win when they needed it most. Especially when the Minnesota passing game was virtually nonexistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings saw three net passing yards come sailing in, on Christmas Day in the afternoon. The fact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-370931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}