With the way the 2020 season started, it seemed like there would be more bad and ugly than good for the Vikings.
The team dropped to 1-5 with a loss to the then-winless Falcons. But after the bye week, Minnesota turned it around. The Vikings gave themselves a chance to get into the playoffs towards the end of the year.
Those chances officially ended on Friday. New Orleans dominated the depleted Minnesota defense to win 52-33.
There were some positives, but the game itself was hard to watch for Vikings fans. Here is the good, the bad and the ugly from the Week 16 defeat: