The Minnesota Vikings have a winning record for the first time in the 2023 NFL season. It certainly hasn’t happened the way anyone would have drawn it up, but it has made for an incredible story. The Vikings penned another remarkable chapter in that story on Sunday with their win over the Atlanta Falcons, in extraordinary fashion.
Coming off a low-point in the season with the Kirk Cousins injury, the Vikings took the field with rookie quarterback Jaren Hall at the helm. Hall, the team’s fifth-round selection out of BYU, was making his first career start, and was slated to be the team’s leader moving forward for the foreseeable future.
Unfortunately for Hall, that future didn’t even last a full quarter, as Hall was forced to leave the game just before the end of the first quarter with a concussion.
In came brand new Viking Josh Dobbs. Dobbs had been acquired at the trade deadline from the Arizona Cardinals. He hadn’t received any first-team reps in practice. He hardly knew the playbook. Hell, Dobbs barely even knew the names of the guys he was playing with.
But none of that mattered, as Dobbs pulled off the absurd and brought Minnesota back on a game-winning drive in the fourth quarter. With all of that as the back-drop for our article this week, let’s dive into the good, bad and ugly from the Week 9 win over the Atlanta Falcons.