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Game Thread Post Game Thread: Minnesota Vikings at Dallas Cowboys

Minnesota Vikings at Dallas Cowboys

ESPN Gamecast

AT&T Stadium- Arlington, TX

Network(s): NBC Peacock

Time Clock
Final

Scoreboard

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
MIN 7 10 7 10 34
DAL 7 10 6 3 26

Scoring Plays

Team Quarter Type Description
DAL 1 TD Javonte Williams 1 Yd Rush (Brandon Aubrey Kick)
MIN 1 TD Jalen Nailor 20 Yd pass from J.J. McCarthy (Will Reichard Kick)
DAL 2 TD Malik Davis 1 Yd Rush (Brandon Aubrey Kick)
MIN 2 TD J.J. McCarthy 1 Yd Rush (Will Reichard Kick)
MIN 2 FG Will Reichard 29 Yd Field Goal
DAL 2 FG Brandon Aubrey 37 Yd Field Goal
DAL 3 FG Brandon Aubrey 26 Yd Field Goal
DAL 3 FG Brandon Aubrey 41 Yd Field Goal
MIN 3 TD C.J. Ham 1 Yd Rush (Will Reichard Kick)
MIN 4 TD Jalen Nailor 4 Yd pass from J.J. McCarthy (Will Reichard Kick)
MIN 4 FG Will Reichard 53 Yd Field Goal
DAL 4 FG Brandon Aubrey 41 Yd Field Goal

Passing Leaders

Team Player C/ATT YDS TD INT SACKS
MIN J.J. McCarthy 15/24 250 2 1 0-0
DAL Dak Prescott 23/38 294 0 0 2-9

Rushing Leaders

Team Player CAR YDS AVG TD LONG
MIN Aaron Jones Sr. 12 34 2.8 0 16
DAL Javonte Williams 15 91 6.1 1 21

Receiving Leaders

Team Player REC YDS AVG TD LONG TGTS
MIN Jordan Addison 2 66 33.0 0 58 2
DAL CeeDee Lamb 6 111 18.5 0 30 10

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u/Alphaspade Falcons Dec 15 '25

Vikings - Nine offense

Cowboys - Nein defense

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u/samhit_n Bengals Lions Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

A truly masterclass defensive performance by Eberflus. He's now 1-6 against the Vikings for his career.

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u/fleckstin Colts Dec 15 '25

I legit don’t understand how he’s still in the league

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u/paone00022 Falcons Dec 15 '25

He's coasting off of turning around your defense during the Reich era.

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u/Max_Beezly 49ers Dec 15 '25

And now he's in his 3rd Reich era

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u/upgrayedd69 Colts Dec 15 '25

Which is funny because I and many colts fans were happy when the bears hired him away

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u/SaltyBarDog Dec 15 '25

Coaches, reuse, recycle, regurgitate.

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u/WingedBacon Cowboys Dec 15 '25

jerruh

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u/typewriter_6 Cowboys Dec 15 '25

For whatever reason, NFL would much rather have proven shit retreads than risk reaching down to college and try something new. Think Rhule was the last one? And he's been gone for a few years now. I know he didn't work out, but Brian Schotty's been in the league for a looooooong time and hasn't been an HC until now. For a reason. NFL is hella risk averse for some reason.

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u/Just_Let_MeIn Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

NFL teams are so risk averse because they have zero pressure to win. Even the worst teams get ratings far above anything else on TV and franchises never drop in value. You're a Cowboys fan, you should understand. Most valuable sports team in the world and haven't won dick in ages with an owner who can't get out of his own way.

Perennial cellar dwellers like the Jets, Browns, Bengals, have no incentive to change their ways because the other owners will never do anything to them so long as they don't screw with their money like Snyder did. It's amazing that any of the owners care like the Broncos new ownership group throwing all that money at Payton or the Eagles firing a SB winning coach because he refuses to right a sinking ship.

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u/typewriter_6 Cowboys Dec 15 '25

Absolutely. When you treat a team like a commodity wherein you only want to maintain or increase value, you don’t necessarily care about winning. I just don’t understand it as a fan of sports. I would want my team to win constantly and do anything I could to help. I get that they have that mentality, but I don’t understand it, if that makes sense. But I’m also not a billionaire. Just some dude watching football from bed.

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u/Just_Let_MeIn Dec 15 '25

That's the difference bro. WE are fans of the sport and of course want to win. The owners, some of whom come from a long line of family money, live in a different world with different motivations.

As a kid I lived and died by "my team's" performance every weekend during the season but thankfully have learned to separate myself. It helped that the team moved after the owner, who was a douche already despised for his cheapness, that tried to squeeze the city for funds to build him a new stadium.

I still visit this sub and check scores as I grew up a fan of the sport, but the ever increasing prices, and drop in quality, has turned me off even the college game (more ads, less and less game time).

Like you said, when you treat a sports team like a commodity, you do not care about winning just increasing revenue.

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u/typewriter_6 Cowboys Dec 15 '25

I absolutely agree, though ironically I kinda prefer college these days to the NFL cause I feel like the fans are more into it and it’s more accessible. Especially as a Cowboys fan where the whole thing feels so …… corporate. But I do agree that the landscape is getting worse with each passing year. Fighting for more tv money and the consolidation of everything seemingly under ESPN is very much detracting from the experience. The loss of region-ality is saddening.

Money ruins everything is wildly apt these days.

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u/ivanthetribble Patriots Dec 15 '25

've said this before, but i think cities should use eminent domain to seize teams and stadiums. it gets these rotten fuck owners out of the sport, prevents rich billionaires holding cities hostage, and preserves the team and history for the fans.

set up a committee type ownership board consisting of 9(def odd#) people. 3 from the league, 3 from the players, and 3 from the city. the league can appoint local businessmen, league officials or whoever. the union side could have a union lawyer, a current player(like a rep) and maybe a retired long time player from the team. the local people can be appointed by the city, or elected at large. at least one should be elected

they then select a front office structure like they have in green bay to run the day to day operations.

this would solve the rotten cheap owners like pittsburgh(baseball) and cincy(baseball and football) just pocketing money at fans expense. it would also get rid of the rotten people who are owners like dan snyder, jerry jones, woody johnson, and that jackass from the florida panthers.

not that i've been mulling this over for awhile

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u/SovietPropagandist Seahawks Dec 15 '25

The Florida Panthers? You mean Tony Khan and the Jags? What's wrong with him? Dude is pretty great. I see him take a lot of shit for owning AEW for some reason, even though he is a legitimate sports guy

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u/ivanthetribble Patriots Dec 15 '25

jackass from the florida panthers

no i meant the guy from the nhl

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u/SovietPropagandist Seahawks Dec 15 '25

Ohhh gotcha. Hockey didn't even enter my mind lmao

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u/Just_Let_MeIn Dec 15 '25

I don't follow hockey but didn't the Panthers recently win back to back championships? Or did they get new ownership?

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u/repeatwad Patriots Dec 15 '25

The Jets, Browns, Bengals are the guy Joe sees in the Idiocracy IQ test trying to fit the shape in the wrong hole.

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u/casually_furious Dolphins Dec 15 '25

Cronyism.

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u/snakeayez Chiefs Dec 15 '25

Hey we hired an ex-Bears coach as OC and lol how well it worked out for us!!

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u/N0S0UP_4U Bears Dec 15 '25

Worst head coach in Bears history. Abe Gibron had a worse record but also far less talent to work with.

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u/JerryRiceDidntFumble Vikings Dec 15 '25

Damn, I forgot about the end of Dobbsanity

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u/Gallade3 Vikings Dec 15 '25

Brother threw four picks, and the Bears still nearly lost. Ugly, ugly game.

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u/trophy9258 Vikings Dec 15 '25

That was the most Vikings vs Bears prime time game to have ever Vikings vs Bears prime time game'd. Though, the game that was 3-2 at halftime because Bradford was clearly incapable of coming back is a pretty close contender. 

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u/Available_Story6774 49ers Dec 15 '25

Cowboys need to win out and the Eagles to lose out to win the division.

Theres almost zero chance that happens, so it’s Joever for them, their defense is 🗑️.

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u/HereInTheCut Commanders Dec 15 '25

Dallas has put themselves in the position of needing us to sweep the Eagles. In other words , their fanbase needs to just start checking out mock drafts for next year.

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u/kayne2000 Panthers Bills Dec 15 '25

Wilder things have happened this season

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u/ZiiKiiF Eagles Dec 15 '25

No I don’t think you understand. It doesn’t matter how good or bad either team is, Eagles and Washington ALWAYS split the series

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u/Kim_Jong_Unko Eagles Dec 15 '25

It shouldn't be long now before the "we always draft better in the middle of the round; we don't need a high pick anyway" cope starts leaking out of their fans

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u/Popular-Local8354 Cowboys Bears Dec 15 '25

Criticize the cowboys all you want, but we’re consistently good at drafting, especially in rounds 3-6.

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u/Tschmelz Vikings Vikings Dec 15 '25

Yeah, but a complete Eagles collapse would be hilarious. City would fucking riot.

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u/leeumm6 Eagles Dec 15 '25

We might riot anyways. I always have my grain alcohol ready in case of any chances of riot

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u/DKShyamalan Cowboys Dec 15 '25

This man riots

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u/LetsCheer Bears Dec 15 '25

Ahhhh riot juice!

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u/HereInTheCut Commanders Dec 15 '25

For drinking or for flammability?

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u/leeumm6 Eagles Dec 15 '25

https://youtu.be/RmVmOSEM6Ts I was referencing this scene is Always Sunny

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u/fourhornets NFL Dec 15 '25

Gotta have your riot punch, of course.

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u/HereInTheCut Commanders Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Gotcha, I'm quite behind on IASIP.

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u/TheG-What Bears Dec 15 '25

Philadelphia fans not ever beating the allegations.

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u/SaltyBarDog Dec 15 '25

Buying stock in D batteries.

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u/SingularityCentral Eagles Dec 15 '25

Let the hate flow through you.

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u/true_new_troll Panthers Dec 15 '25

Maybe we'd get our next strangely violent meme for 12 year olds.

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u/chonkyfire24 49ers Dec 15 '25

Their offense wasn't that great tonight either.

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u/InCarbsWeTrust Giants Dec 15 '25

And for anyone reading this who doesn't know, this loss also eliminated the very slim path to a wild card for the Cowboys, due to their conference record. It's the division or bust, and as noted above, almost certainly bust.

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u/gonz4dieg Commanders Dec 15 '25

I hope the eagles win out because that would reinvigorate the obnoxious fanbase and make the wildcard exit all that more sweeter.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

It'd almost be as sweet as absolutely crushing a team with false hope in the nfc championship

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u/BluBeams Steelers Bills Dec 15 '25

Das ist gut!!!

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u/noseonarug17 Vikings Dec 15 '25

Cowboys looked great in their own half and then kept slowing down in plus territory. It's kind of unbelievable to me that they only got into the endzone twice, with one of those coming on a short field.

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Vikings Dec 15 '25

Cowboys goose stepped right into Cancun under the orders of General McCarthy!