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“There certainly are ebbs and flows to every game, every season,” Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores said before his team’s latest ebb, a 28-22 loss to the Eagles at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday.
Perhaps it helps that Thursday’s game is against a 4-3 Chargers team that has lost three of its last four games. Perhaps not, since last year’s loss was to a Rams team that was 2-4 before momentum and better health smiled upon it.
Momentum is a funny thing. Unless, of course, you’re an NFL team and you can’t control it — the good, the bad, probably the ugly, too — no matter how hard you try to match the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only team to finish an NFL season with a perfect record.
On Sunday in Denver, the Broncos trailed the Giants 19-0 entering the fourth quarter. Fifteen minutes later, they won 33-32, becoming the first team to score 33 points in the fourth quarter of a game they were shut out in through three quarters. Quarterback Bo Nix, drafted two spots below the Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy, became the first player with multiple touchdowns passing and rushing in the same quarter in NFL history.
“Momentum is a hard thing to quantify,” Vikings right guard Will Fries said.