The Vikings had 85 yards in the first three quarters and were 0-for-8 on third down. J.J. McCarthy threw a pick-six early in the third quarter as the Bears took a 17-6 lead.<\/p>\n
It appeared all was lost for Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The fourth quarter, though, belonged to the Vikings, and so did the game.<\/p>\n
The Vikings rallied for a 27-24 come-from-behind victory on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n
The visitors scored three touchdowns in a 9:20 stretch of the fourth quarter on drives of 60, 50 and 68. McCarthy threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Justin Jefferson and a 27-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Jones, and McCarthy ran for a 14-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n
The Vikings outgained the Bears 169 to 63 in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
McCarthy, a first-round pick in 2024 who missed his entire rookie season with a right knee injury, finished his debut 13-of-20 for 143 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. He ran for 25 yards and a touchdown on two carries.<\/p>\n
Jefferson caught four passes for 44 yards and a touchdown, and Jones caught three passes for 44 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Javon Hargrave had two of the Vikings\u2019 three sacks.<\/p>\n
The Bears scored on the opening possession, their first opening possession touchdown in a game since 2023, but the offense gave their fans little to cheer about after that. The Bears\u2019 second touchdown came with 2:02 remaining on Caleb Williams\u2019 1-yard touchdown pass to Rome Odunze to cut their deficit to a field goal.<\/p>\n
The Bears, though, didn\u2019t see the ball again until the Vikings punted with 16 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n
Williams went 20-of-34 for 191 yards and a touchdown and was the Bears\u2019 leading rusher with 58 yards and a touchdown on six carries. DJ Moore caught three passes for 70 yards.<\/p>\n
The Bears had 12 penalties for 127 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings had 85 yards in the first three quarters and were 0-for-8 on third down. J.J. McCarthy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-212462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173635097376011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212462","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=212462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}