How the Minnesota Vikings’ Loss vs. Chicago Bears Changed Their 2011 Season

May 26, 2012   ·   Andrew Garda   ·   Jump to comments

Looking back at the 2011 season for the Minnesota Vikings, it might seem difficult to pick out a point where things went in a positive direction. It might be easy to pick out a bright spot because there seemed to be so few, but a time when the season started to go right?
A 3-13 team has very few bright spots.
There is one game that, though the outcome was bad, pointed the Vikings on the right path.
The loss to the Chicago Bears wasn't just a loss—it was a systematic breakdown of the team by a much superior unit. Watching it again it seemed at times that every single thing which could go wrong did, sometimes on a grand scale.
Yet, this is the game which forced the Vikings to stop trotting out old retread quarterbacks in the hopes that magically they would take them back to the Super Bowl and find out what they had in their young quarterback.
Christian Ponder may be the answer, he may not. One thing that was obvious by this time in the season was, Donovan M...

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