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A) Last year’s Minnesota Vikings quarterback is now with the Seattle Seahawks. B) We know revenge games are real. C) Seattle is currently good and Minnesota is, well, not. Ergo, when they faced off in Week 13, Sam Darnold would eat like it was Hours 69-72 of Thanksgiving while the Vikings chewed on their offseason decisions. And, if you look at the score only, the spurned QB did get the last word… without delivering it himself. Darnold accounted for no touchdowns, but then again neither did the Vikings, Ernest Jones outscored them both by himself, another fourth quarter was reduced to 15 minutes of garbage time, and the Seahawks moved to 9-3. Oh yeah, ‘twas a shutout too, a 26-0 disassembly disguised as a game. No secret: this game was strictly about the defense, which played like eleven lit sticks of dynamite to Max Brosmer’s Wile E. Coyote. Unlike so many other cartoonish backup quarterbacks before him who managed to roadrunner their way through the fake tunnel painted on the end zone, the Vikings emergency signalcaller hit his head, saw stars, watched a giant lump rise from his forehead, and flew home wondering how the heck it all went wrong. Four interceptions, a fumble recovery and a turnover on downs. 162 yards of offense, 11 first downs on 13 drives (!), four sacks, 2.8 yards per attempt . The Vikings guided five drives into Seahawks territory. All five times the possession ended in a giveaway. None bigger than when Ernest Jones right-place-right-timed himself into six points. Yes that's the good stuff gentlemen— John Fraley (@johndavidfraley.bsky.social) 2025-11-30T22:04:59.657Z Hold up, though. There is no Jones pick-six without DeMarcus Lawrence, who provided the pressure as part of his usual (!) monster day at the forefront of the defense. And there is no fourth and 1 to even speak of without Josh Jobe’s clean sideline tackle of Jordan Addision juuuuuuuuust short of the sticks a play earlier. The whole defense engulfed Brosmer, Addison, Justin Jefferson and every other Viking from whistle to whistle. Byron Murphy wasn’t stoppable. Drake Thomas chipped in a half-sack. Jobe erased Jefferson and created one of Jones’ interceptions. Tariq Woolen stepped in front of an in-breaking route and definitely held on to the ball, I’m offended you believe he fumbled while trying to take it back to the house, why that doesn’t sound like him at all. For shame, dear reader, for shame. How can you hate a guy who laps the field on an interception return? Tarik Woolen is very fast. Watch him catchup— Blake (@blakeewhitney.bsky.social) 2025-11-30T22:11:54.723Z So this game isn’t about the quarterback, the star receiver, the stud running back. It’s an unabashed ode to the entire defense on a day they deserve every tulip in Mount Vernon. (Okay, let us quietly raise a glass to Jason Myers too, who methodically pushed the Vikings’ door to victory closed with each three-pointer he calmly knocked through the uprights.) The scoreless opening quarter — third one this year for Seattle — featured two near-interceptions, zero explosives, and a whole lot of pressure on Sam Darnold. No turnovers felt like a win in and of itself. Meanwhile, Brosmer showed no flashes; there were definitely completions to be made early on against a non-sticky secondary but it took him a quarter of play to settle down and locate his targets. It’s just too bad for him they were all wearing sumptuous Seahawks throwback jerseys. Cooper Kupp’s second catch of the day to open the second period also set up Seattle’s first favorable down and distance in some time — second and four in Minnesota territory. Darnold chose that moment to succumb to pressure, coughing up a fumble that Kupp was alert enough to pounce on in a sea of purple. Facing third and 11, who else but Cody White to the rescue, amiright? He hauled in a dart down the middle for 12 of his own yards and got nine (more) with a little help from his friends. Successive seven-yarders out of Zach Charbonnet…

The first drive was fun until Jacoby Brissett struck again. His inability to finish drives continues to be an issue, and he’s missed a number of throws over the middle the last two weeks, all of that is why the Arizona Cardinals trail 10-3 at the half. But I go back to what I’ve said since he started, this was inevitable. You can’t ask your QB to take 10-plus hits a game and expect him to continue to perform at a high level. This is the Cardinals offense almost completely healthy by the way. Only the running backs are missing and the change at right tackle was what everyone wanted to see.  The issue is that when you’re getting repeatedly pummeled, you start to get gunshy. We are seeing that. The other issue is the Cardinals defense needs to make a big play, not just plays. The offense isn’t good. They run more plays than any other team in the NFL, but they don’t score, so all those yards are really meaningless when you aren’t scoring points at the end. Can they start to convert in the second half? Let’s hope so.

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