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FOX Sports’ NFL experts provide the biggest takeaways from every Sunday game in Week 11 and what they mean for each team going forward.
Vikings: There’s been one question bugging me for weeks now: Do I trust the Minnesota Vikings? The answer, truthfully, is I still don’t know. They are incredibly well coached on both sides of the ball. Quarterback Sam Darnold is playing the best football of his career. Cornerback Cam Bynum is going into the defensive celly hall of fame after this year, surely. And oh yeah, with tight end T.J. Hockenson coming back from injury, their offense is more potent than ever.
And yet they needed a walkoff overtime field goal to beat the struggling Chicago Bears. The Vikings offense had yet another red-zone turnover. They were aided by multiple special teams blunders by their opponent. But you can’t deny they’re coming out on the right side of these weird ones. They have just two losses this year and only one of them was by more than a score. They figure out ways to win, and you can’t ask for much more than that, right? Especially in a division with as good of an overall record as the NFC North has.
Bears: Surely the Bears are tired of “moral victories” at this point but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take encouragement from a weird one at home against the Vikings. For the second week in a row, the Bears took a division opponent down to the wire and this time, Chicago forced overtime. The Bears haven’t come out in the win column either of those times and are now riding a five-game losing streak, but there’s a blinding bright spot in their quarterback under center. Rookie Caleb Williams broke the Bears’ rookie passing yards record, previously held by Mitch Trubisky, during the game against Minnesota. Williams also tied the Bears’ rookie passing touchdown record, set in the 1940s by Charlie O’Rourke. Williams is on pace for more than 3,600 yards this season, which would be the fifth-highest by any Bears quarterback ever, and 17…
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