We’ve reached halftime at Soldier Field, and the Minnesota Vikings trail the Chicago Bears by a score of 10-6 in a game that, quite frankly, could be a whole lot worse.

The first play of the quarter saw J.J. McCarthy unload a deep pass toward Aaron Jones down the sideline, and the pass fell incomplete but the Bears got called for a pass interference penalty to move the ball into Chicago territory for the purple. McCarthy then scrambled for 11 more yards and another first down to put the Vikings into the red zone for the first time this season. McCarthy’s pass for Justin Jefferson on the next third down fell incomplete, and the Vikings got their first points of the season on a 31-yard Will Reichard field goal to make it 7-3 early in the second quarter.

The Bears then moved the ball down t

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