Halfway through their first Border Battle of the 2025 season on Sunday at Lambeau Field, the Minnesota Vikings could feel the momentum building in their favor.<\/p>\n
The Vikings opening 30 minutes against the rival Packers had featured two scoring drives courtesy of Will Reichard’s leg \u2013 both field goals from 50+ yards, with the latter kick being a 59-yarder, making it the second-longest made field goal in Lambeau Field history behind David Akers’ 63-yarder with the 49ers back in 2012. Despite not finding the end zone in the first half, Minnesota only trailed by four points and saw a healthy 86 yards rushing from the duo of Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones, Sr., as well as a solid start from J.J. McCarthy (7-of-11 for 62 yards) and Justin Jefferson (three catches for 41 yards).<\/p>\n
Minnesota appeared to keep that momentum rolling to start the second half, as it forced a Packers punt to begin the third quarter. The next 12 seconds, however, completely flipped the script for the remainder of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Vikings returner Myles Price initially let the punt find the field, but ended up getting a little too close for comfort. The ball ricocheted off his hand and was recovered by the Packers’ Zayne Anderson at the Vikings 5-yard line. Two plays later, Green Bay (7-3-1) found the end zone, and never looked back on its way to a 23-6<\/a> victory over Minnesota (4-7).<\/p>\n Sunday’s game not only gave Minnesota its fifth loss in the past six games, but it also caused the Vikings to move back in this week’s Power Rankings. Here’s a look at where the Vikings landed going into Week 13:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halfway through their first Border Battle of the 2025 season on Sunday at Lambeau Field, the Minnesota Vikings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,85570,2529,1025,40634,6,5189,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-554474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings-at-seattle-seahawks-2025-reg-13","12":"tag-minnesotavikings","13":"tag-news-index","14":"tag-news-power-rankings","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-power-rankings","17":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115613195794592574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554474","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=554474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}