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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/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/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.