“The defense did a really good job until the very end,” Johnson said. “That fourth quarter, things got away from us a little bit. But up until then they kept us in that ballgame.”<\/p>\n
The defense played without linebacker T.J. Edwards (hamstring), cornerback Jaylon Johnson (calf, groin) and nickel back Kyler Gordon (hamstring).<\/p>\n
The Bears had a chance to pad their lead, but Santos missed a 50-yard field goal attempt wide right on the first play of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The Vikings followed by cutting the deficit to 17-12 on McCarthy’s 13-yard TD pass to Jefferson. Minnesota was 0-of-8 on third down before scoring its first TD of the game on third-and-5.<\/p>\n
On the subsequent two-point conversion attempt, tight end Josh Oliver caught a pass from McCarthy in the left flat, but safety Jonathan Owens made an excellent open field tackle short of the goal line.<\/p>\n
The Vikings took their first lead at 20-17 with 9:46 to play on McCarthy’s 27-yard TD pass to running back Aaron Jones and a two-point conversion pass to receiver Adam Thielen.<\/p>\n
McCarthy’s 14-yard TD run made it 27-17 with 2:53 to play before Williams’ TD pass to Odunze completed the scoring.<\/p>\n
“The guys did play hard,” Johnson said. “They played with great intensity, great effort, and I hate to see that they didn’t come with a ‘W’ there at the end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The defense did a really good job until the very end,” Johnson said. “That fourth quarter, things got…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[81678,8430,51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-212319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-article-game-recap","9":"tag-centerpiece","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173336221829884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}