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The 2022 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 62nd in the National Football League (NFL), their seventh playing home games at U.S. Bank Stadium and their first under new general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and new head coach Kevin O'Connell, following the firings of Rick Spielman and Mike Zimmer at the end of the 2021 season.
The best regular-season record was achieved in 1998, when the Vikings went 15–1, but kicker Gary Anderson, who had gone 35-for-35 in field goal attempts during the regular season, missed a 38-yard attempt with less than three minutes remaining in the NFC Championship Game. [5]
The Vikings' starting quarterback for the first game of their inaugural season against the Chicago Bears was George Shaw. [3] However, he was replaced by Fran Tarkenton early on, who passed for four touchdowns in the game and rushed for one more. Tarkenton went on to start in 10 of the Vikings' 14 regular season matches that year. [4]
The Vikings finished the season 6–10 with a 20–13 loss against the Detroit Lions. [92] The 2010–11 season was a step down for the Minnesota Vikings. After coming within a few plays of Super Bowl XLIV, Minnesota ended the 2010 season with a 6–10 record and a last place finish in the NFC North for the first time since 1990. [102]
The 2022 Indianapolis Colts–Minnesota Vikings game was a National Football League (NFL) game played at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 17, 2022, as part of the 2022 NFL season. The Minnesota Vikings overcame a 33–0 halftime deficit to defeat the visiting Indianapolis Colts 39–36 in overtime and complete the ...
On February 16, 2022, just three days after winning Super Bowl LVI, O'Connell was hired by the Minnesota Vikings as the 10th head coach in their franchise history. [64] [65] The hiring reunited him with quarterback Kirk Cousins, whom O'Connell had coached in 2017 (Cousins' final year with the Washington Redskins). O'Connell won his first game ...
Osborn finished the 2022 season with 655 receiving yards and seven touchdowns; both statistics ranked as third-most on the Vikings behind fellow wide receivers Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen. [7] During Week 15 against the Indianapolis Colts, Osborn finished with 157 receiving yards and a touchdown on 10 receptions.
On March 16, 2022, Phillips signed a three-year, $19.5 million contract with the Minnesota Vikings. [27] He started all 17 games in 2022, recording 59 tackles and 1.5 sacks. Phillips followed up his strong 2022 season by setting career-highs in 2023, recording 92 tackles and three sacks.