Talk about wild. The Minnesota Vikings are out here at a perfect 4-0, and they’ve gone 18 straight drives without scoring a single touchdown. You heard that right. Eighteen. Drives.
Defense Wins Championships… And Apparently, Regular Season Games Too
The last time this team actually hit the end zone was way back in the second quarter of their Week 3 win against the Buccaneers. It’s like their offense just forgot how to finish. Their Week 4 victory over the Dolphins? That was all thanks to five field goals. Not a single touchdown on the board for that game. Honestly, it’s a testament to their defense, which has basically turned the page back to the “Purple People Eaters” era. These guys are stout, and they’re carrying the whole team right now because the offense just isn’t giving them much help. Remember when tight end T.J. Hockenson had a chance to score right before the two-minute warning against the Dolphins? He wisely took a knee instead, making sure Miami couldn’t get the ball back and pull off some crazy last-second comeback. Smart play, sure, but it also meant another game without a touchdown. Crazy, right?
Chasing Century-Old Records, For Better or Worse
This touchdown drought isn’t just a weird quirk, it’s history in the making. Winning multiple games without scoring a touchdown is super rare. How rare? The Vikings are the first team in over a century to start 4-0 despite not scoring a touchdown in multiple games this season. The only other squads to pull off that feat were the 1922 and 1923 Chicago Cardinals. Seriously, we’re talking about records from when the NFL was just getting started! If the Vikings somehow manage to win *another* game this year without getting into the end zone, they’ll become only the fourth team in NFL history to win three or more games without a single touchdown. The others on that list? The 1922 Chicago Cardinals, the 1923 Chicago Bears, and the 1993 Indianapolis Colts, according to NBC Sports’ research. The all-time record for wins without a touchdown belongs to the 1922 Cardinals, with four.
So, the big question is, can their defense keep bailing them out like this? Will the offense actually find a way to break this streak and put some actual points on the board? Or are we about to watch them set a new, unbelievable, century-old record for winning without touching the paint? It’s going to be wild to see what happens next.
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Originally reported by Pro Football Talk.
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