If the games counted, that wouldn’t have been great.
The Minnesota Vikings opened up their preseason with a 24-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on the road. Despite opening the game with a double-digit, the Vikings imploded in the second half, allowing 17 points in the final two frames.
The good news is, inherently, the results from preseason don’t matter. Winning is practically pointless in the preseason, and it’s more about evaluating how players panned out.
As a result, grading preseason games is an exercise in understanding context and why those things matter. With that said, here are the Vikings’ grades from their first preseason game of 2023.