The 8-2 Vikings finish up their three-game road trip when they travel down to Chicago to take on the 4-6 Bears this weekend. Jonathan Harrison is joined by Joe Nelson and Nolan O'Hara to discuss what it will take for the Vikings to extend their win streak to four games before they come back to U.S. Bank Stadium.
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00:18Jonathan Harrison here joined once again by Nolan O'Hara and Joe Nelson for our weekly Vikings prediction segment
00:24Let's jump right into this Vikings
00:26Taking on the Bears the final game of a three-game road trip back into NFC North action against a Bears team
00:32That's four and six on a four game losing streak. The wheels are clearly starting to fall off in Chicago Nolan
00:38Let's get your prediction first this week
00:41Yeah, I think it is just another one where the Vikings are running into not that great of a team
00:47I'm picking them to win once again on Sunday. I think it'll be a close game. It's in Chicago
00:53You know might be a little windy cold weather
00:56But I think defense translates. I think Caleb Williams is a promising quarterback, but he is a rookie
01:02I think Brian Flores has
01:05flustered a lot of quarterbacks who have a lot more experience and
01:09Then him and I just don't really see any way
01:13They're gonna be able to generate much offense against that unit
01:16And I think even though the Vikings have had kind of an up-and-down offense over the last few weeks here
01:22I think they'll be able to do just enough to kind of push them over the top
01:27So I just I just don't see the Bears being able to do anything against against Flores's defense
01:31And I think the Vikings walk out of Soldier Field with the win. I picked them to win 23 17
01:38Yeah, so we talked a lot about how Soldier Field is a place where the Vikings go and weird things tend to happen
01:44I think that's kind of an old narrative at this point. I know that it's it's been in
01:50recent enough memory that
01:52You know some funky things will go down at Soldier Field the turfs goofy
01:56And it's just always always strange, but the Vikings have gone there four straight times in one
02:01I mean Matt Iberflues his regime has not had much success against the Vikings and
02:06When you really take a 30,000 foot view of who the Bears are this season, they're a bad team
02:12You know, they look pretty good when they were four and two or whatever it was
02:15But now they're four and six I believe and they're reeling and when you look at who they've actually beaten
02:21I mean just go look at the schedule
02:23You will not be impressed
02:24Tennessee in week one the Rams who were banged up beyond all bang up in like week number four and then they beat the
02:31Patriots and they beat the Jaguars. This is awful. They haven't beaten a good team yet this season the Rams
02:37Yes are a good team, but not with the roster. They played in that game
02:40So they haven't beaten anybody good. The Vikings are one of the best teams
02:44They have played all season long and I think Nolan you're right. Caleb Williams is gonna have his hands full
02:49Our colleagues over at Chicago Bears on that side Jean Chamberlain was writing
02:54they're gonna have to have a great blitz pickup scheme because if Flores gets all over Caleb Williams like he expects them to
03:01It's gonna be a long day for the rookie. There's no savior. There's no quick pass. No hot read that's gonna save this guy
03:08The Bears just aren't good enough and it's gonna be a long Sunday for him. I don't think the Bears get to double-digit points
03:15Oh, what's your score? I think I said 27 to 8
03:20The only way it's closer again. The only way it's closer guys is if Sam Darnold, you know
03:25Has it has a has a Jets Darnold day and he turns the ball over a few times
03:29But if Darnold's just doing his job game managing this should be it should be a cakewalk for, Minnesota
03:33I
03:35think the part that concerns me is the lack of a running game that we've seen especially with the changes on the offensive line some
03:41Of the replacements are clearly better at pass blocking than they are at run blocking and it just hasn't worked out
03:46I mean Aaron Jones has really struggled of late whether that's injury usage
03:50What not the Vikings have just seemed to struggle in the run game of late
03:55It doesn't look like the same game that they've had earlier this season
03:58Hopefully they can find a way to kind of pick that up this Sunday against the team that gets the Bears defense
04:04That doesn't really protect or stop the run all that
04:06Well, but that really concerns me because it puts more on Sam Darnold's shoulders and we've seen what that can do at times
04:13Though saying all that I think the Vikings electric defense comes through
04:18Caleb Williams just gonna have a really tough day and the Vikings I think will win this one
04:2324 to 7 is what I had it at Nolan you had Tony and Will's predictions since they're out today. What did they come up with?
04:30Yeah, so
04:32Tony also had a similar
04:34Take is ours, right? So he picked the Vikings to win
04:392817
04:40Kind of the same thing two teams go in different directions. The Vikings are on a win streak
04:44The Bears are pretty much floundering here
04:47And he also expects the defense to be able to come through
04:51But will went a different direction and picked the Vikings to lose for the first time this season
04:59Kind of citing some of like Joe was talking about the goofy plays that tend to happen at Soldier Field
05:04even though they have won four in a row and
05:08That Caleb Williams with the new play caller did pretty well in his first week last week against the Packers
05:14They only lost that game by a point which is you know, a good Packers team. They were competitive
05:21And then the Bears defense also forces a lot of turnovers
05:25So we've seen with Sam Darnold, he's been throwing interceptions kind of left and right lately and
05:31He's got the Bears winning a close one of 2017. Yeah. Yeah
05:39Will will went to school in Chicago, so he feels things differently
05:43It will give him that and he may very well be correct
05:46But even the Green Bay game it was a close game, right?
05:502019 Chicago had a chance to win it with a field goal at the end and it gets blocked or whatever
05:54but
05:56Green Bay only had the ball for 23 minutes. That was that was a terrible performance by Green Bay
06:02Green Bay did not force a turnover which is rare. Green Bay is one of the best turnover forcing teams in the NFL
06:08I just think you know
06:10Caleb Williams is his interception free streak is like a hundred and forty six past attempts
06:16That's probably gonna end the Bears are gonna goof something up
06:19This feels like a team that is quitting on the head coach and Matt Ibrafluous, right?
06:23I mean, it was just a few weeks ago. We were talking here on this channel about how
06:27Wide receiver DJ Moore was asked, you know, hey, you know
06:31Do you feel like the coaching staff has lost the locker room and his response was?
06:36drawn out
06:39Let me think about it, I don't think so
06:41I mean that's pretty bad, right if you can't have conviction in your answer when you're one of the team leaders
06:48About whether your coaching staff has lost the locker room
06:51No team responds well to an offensive coordinator change in the middle of the season
06:56Just go back and look at Norv Turner and John D. Filippo years ago with the Minnesota Vikings
07:02Mike Zimmer was firing coordinators left and right and eventually he got the axe, right?
07:06The top has to come down eventually if you want true change to to take place
07:10That's what's gonna happen in Chicago in due time. Sorry, Matt even loose. You're not the answer
07:15And this season is spiraling out of control for a reason for the Bears
07:19Their offense is garbage right now, and there's no way in hell that they beat the Vikings on Sunday. I'm gonna guarantee it right now
07:30They're just not very good
07:32Yeah, that's true. All right before we head out here because we're gonna make this a shorter video time crunch and all
07:38Give me your guys's since we didn't do five key matchups yesterday with Will since he was out as well
07:43He's taking a long weekend
07:45deservedly, so
07:46Give me your key players to this game for the Vikings and how and how they impact a win for Minnesota Joe. Oh
07:56Man well, I
07:59Mean if you had to give me the key players, it's gonna be Andrew Van Ginkel
08:03Patrick Jones and Jonathan Bernard because containing Caleb Williams is a big key to we heard Brian Flores
08:10Minnesota's defensive coordinator talked about this week. You got to keep them in the pocket
08:13You can't let him extend plays and allow wide receivers more time to find spaces in the defense
08:18Williams sounds based on his quotes this week that he's prepared to take some shots down the field
08:23Kind of like will Levis did last week now will Levis extended some plays took some shots and they worked out
08:29Still didn't look great overall as an offense. I expect something similar this week with the Vikings defense against Chicago
08:35But if you can keep Caleb Williams in the pocket, I think he's gonna have a really long day
08:39So Joe went with the defense, I'm not worried about the defense at all
08:44I think I just don't see any way the Bears are really gonna be able to do much
08:48So I'll go with some offensive players for the Vikings starting with Aaron Jones in the running game
08:53Like you're saying Jonathan. They do need him to get going and he's been a little bit banged up
08:59Hopefully that's just all it's been and that he kind of gets back on track
09:03I think obviously
09:05Justin Jefferson, you're gonna want to get him the ball try to get a big player to
09:10Against really a good strong Bears defense and then Sam Donald at quarterback. He's got to not turn the ball over
09:17I think that's pretty much all he'll really need to do make the right plays not turn the ball over
09:23Try to run run time off the clock and I think the Vikings should really cruise to a win here
09:29But it's just gonna come down to getting things going on offense
09:33And I'd let the defense just
09:36Take care of Caleb Williams and the Bears
09:38Yeah
09:39Looking forward to this one should be an exciting one for sure Vikings
09:42Looking to extend their win streak to four looking to make the Bears go to a five game losing streak as they have to turn
09:48Around and play Thanksgiving Day a game
09:50Against the Red Hot Lions who I'm sure will just rack up the score against NFC North opponent and rival looking forward to this one
09:57this weekend boys
09:58Will I was I will assume we'll be back on with the game recap after that one
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