When the Minnesota Vikings scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns to defeat the Chicago Bears in Week 1, the feeling was that the Vikings’ offense had finally gotten it together.

After Week 2’s Sunday Night Football matchup against the Atlanta Falcons, the vibes, as the kids might say, are gone.

In front of a raucous crowd for their first game at U.S. Bank Stadium since last December, the Minnesota offense managed just two field goals and squandered a relatively solid defensive effort to fall by a score of 22-6.

The Falcons won the opening coin toss and, in a rare move, chose to take the ball rather than defer to the second half. They got a couple of big runs from Bijan Robinson to start their drive, but stalled out in the red zone and settled for a 38-yard field goal from former Viking

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