Short week & long travel hurts the Vikings. However, Dalvin Cook will be the freshest guy on the field. Cousins and the offense should come out firing, with a mental edge to overcome the short rest and travel, after getting embarrassed at home by the Bills.
Rams secondary clearly banged up. Good luck covering Thielen who will have a 6” advantage on Robey-Coleman, or Rudolph also with 6” height advantage. Oh yeah, or Diggs against a backup cb for half the game.
While the Rams defensive front is loaded, they actually are near the bottom of the league in sacks (29th!) - even with having played against 2 of the bottom 5 O-lines in pass-heavy game scripts.
Rams have looked like the best team in NFL so far, but they haven’t played a team even close to the caliber of Vikings - especially the Vikings D.
I give the Vikings a very good chance at winning outright, and even better chance of losing by less than 7.
Rams secondary clearly banged up. Good luck covering Thielen who will have a 6” advantage on Robey-Coleman, or Rudolph also with 6” height advantage. Oh yeah, or Diggs against a backup cb for half the game.
While the Rams defensive front is loaded, they actually are near the bottom of the league in sacks (29th!) - even with having played against 2 of the bottom 5 O-lines in pass-heavy game scripts.
Rams have looked like the best team in NFL so far, but they haven’t played a team even close to the caliber of Vikings - especially the Vikings D.
I give the Vikings a very good chance at winning outright, and even better chance of losing by less than 7.

...I fully expect my boy Kirk Cousins to have a bounce back game and light up the rams secondary sans Peters and Talib...Minny is still a damn good team and loaded on both sides of the ball...the Vikes are still one of the favorites to go all the way...yes, they obviously looked ahead to this game and didn't take the Bills seriously and they got their asses handed to them by a scrub team...but like you said, this is what happens in the NFL...it's a week to week league...Minny should come out on fire, full of piss and vinegar after that embarrassing and humiliating loss....but having said all that, I'm still taking the damn points!...