
Monday Night Football's Vikings-Bears opener started with what felt like an inevitable Chicago win, but ended with a rough-around-the-edges Minnesota victory that got the job done.
In his first regular-season NFL start, second-year Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy endured several mistakes in the first three quarters, only to deliver in the fourth, when he led three touchdown drives, one of which was capped with a 14-yard score he ran in himself.