The Vikings had done exactly what the skeptics anticipated when they fell behind the Buffalo Bills by 17 points late in the third quarter Sunday at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. Minnesota entered the game against one of the NFL’s top teams with a 7-1 record but carried the asterisk of having only one victory (Miami) against a team with a winning record.
As the Vikings fell behind by three scores against Josh Allen and the 6-2 Bills, the naysayers collectively nodded, knowing that Minnesota had been a pretender. Kirk Cousins might have had four game-winning drives in the fourth quarter — including one last week in Washington — but any talk of this being some type of special season for the Vikings could stop.
