After a rocky start, J.J. McCarthy rallied to lead the Minnesota Vikings to a dramatic 27-24 win over the Chicago Bears in his first NFL start. <\/p>\n
Trailing 17-6 after three quarters, the Vikings scored three unanswered touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Each touchdown was scored by McCarthy, who shook off Nahshon Wright’s 74-yard pick-six that extended the Bears’ lead to 11 points early in the second half. <\/p>\n
Oddly, the pick-six seemed to jumpstart the Vikings and McCarthy, who threw touchdown passes to Justin Jefferson and Aaron Jones in the fourth quarter before scrambling for a 14-yard touchdown run with less than three minutes left. <\/p>\n
Minnesota’s shocking comeback spoiled the home debut for new Bears head coach Ben Johnson, whose team jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead after Caleb Williams opened the game with a nine-yard touchdown run. Williams led a late scoring drive that got the Bears within three points, but it was too little too late.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Williams completed his first 10 passes while helping the Bears take a 10-6 lead at intermission. But he and the rest of the Bears’ offense couldn’t sustain that level of success in the second half, as the Vikings’ defense stepped up before McCarty and Co. took control in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n
We’ll have a full breakdown of Monday night’s game shortly, but until then, check out our live blog below to relive the action in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a rocky start, J.J. McCarthy rallied to lead the Minnesota Vikings to a dramatic 27-24 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63044,63167,63166,1035,1036,391,7,4262,259,63169,63168,16166,49,48,6,63099,63170],"class_list":{"0":"post-353273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bears-vs-vikings-game","9":"tag-bears-vs-vikings-mnf","10":"tag-bears-vs-vikings-score","11":"tag-ben-johnson","12":"tag-caleb-williams","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jj-mccarthy","16":"tag-minnesota-vikings","17":"tag-mnf-prediction","18":"tag-mnf-score","19":"tag-monday-night-football","20":"tag-ncaa","21":"tag-ncaa-football","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-vikings-vs-bears-prediction","24":"tag-vikings-vs-bears-odds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115172373108380973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}