The Minnesota Vikings are on the road in NFL Football action Sunday, taking on the Atlanta Falcons. The game is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start time and it will be televised live on FOX. Currently the NFL Odds for the game have the Falcons favored to pick up the victory at home.
Atlanta and Minnesota are both having decent seasons to start, each is potentially looking at a playoff spot despite sitting in second place in their respective divisions.
The Falcons looked very solid under new head coach Dan Quinn to start the season with a 6-1 record, but they’ve dropped each of the last three games, two of which came at home. Those defeats happened against Tampa Bay and Indianapolis, two teams we thought Atlanta was better than at this point in the season. Even so, the Falcons need to find a way to regroup and get things under control.
There’s little faith of them catching Carolina in the standings, but playing and piling up wins for a potential Wild Card spot should be the new focus. Minnesota is battling Green Bay for the top spot in the NFC North, but the Packers own a game in hand over the Vikings.
Teddy Bridgewater has been pretty good again this season, while he’s not putting up Matt Ryan numbers it’s been good enough to win games. Since the opening week of the year Minnesota has covered the number in eight of nine games, winning seven outright.
Key notes for the game include the health of Devonta Freeman, who could be out because of a concussion last weekend, Atlanta turning it over 10 times the last four games overall and Adrian Peterson looking to get things geared up and ready to go.
The Vikings have been very solid with Peterson on the ground, he will once again get a bulk of the carries. Minnesota can win this game, which should prove to be a close one between two competitive teams.
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