Vikings Defeat Bears 20-13; Climb to 8-6

Had a terrible game last night.  "Urlacher's blitzing...hmmm...I think I'll help Hutch and double team Idonoje!"  Those two Urlacher sacks were entirely his fault.  

He never gets called out because his run blocking is so good, but his pass blocking this year has been awful.  

Jackson:  
This game needed to happen now.  Because it very easily could/will happen in January.  The Vikings turned the ball over twice in which he received credit for it when the first was on Ferguson, the second on AD.  He forced it after that, making over-zealous decisions and bad throws off-balance.  He redeemed himself leading two solid drives in the 4th quarter.  

Peterson:
It was his Monday Night debut after the worst game of his life.  He pressed, and it showed.  He wasn't hitting holes and attacking defenders like he should.  He was not receiving hand offs correctly.  Luckily, he's so talented he eventually redeemed himself in the 4th quarter.

O-Line:
They got beat tonight again till the 4th quarter.  For all the credit they're getting for the holes they can open in the run game, give me the 03-04 lines in a passing situation of this line.  

Play calling:
Awful.  

They need to run more screens.  With these backs it's the most explosive play in the book for them, almost an automatic first down and more.  It boggles my mind that they aren't running a screen every 3rd pass play.  

Also, Tony Richardson needs to be in more passing downs.  It's a dead giveaway that when he's in, it's most likely going to be on the ground.  When he's not in, it's in the air.  He's so good and needs to be blocking in these screen plays the Vikings need more of.  

Defense:
Yes, it was Kyle Orton.  But worse quarterbacks have done better against this defense (JT O'Sullivan, anyone?) this year.  32 rushing yards and the Bears going 1-14 on 3rd down is something to be applauded.