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Patrick Peterson has been as vital as expected for Minnesota's revamped secondary this season, providing a wise and steadying influence on his younger teammates and sound pass coverage of his own. The Vikings are about to find out just how much of an impact Peterson has had. He'll miss at least the next three games with a hamstring injury, starting on Sunday night when the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL's highest-scoring offense visit U.S. Bank Stadium.

Oct. 27—When they met in 2019, the Vikings and Dallas Cowboys combined for 52 points. In a 2020 game, they rang up 59. The teams meet again Sunday night at U.S. Bank Stadium, and it would be no surprise if even more points are scored between the two high-powered offenses. "I think it's going to be high-scoring game, I really do," said hall of fame coach Tony Dungy, who as an NBC studio analyst ...

This year, the Vikings host the Dallas Cowboys on Halloween night at U.S. Bank Stadium, Sunday Night Football on national television. Quarterback Kirk Cousins is missing trick-or-treating with his two boys for the second straight year. "I’m 0-for-2 the last two years," Cousins joked.

Kyle Youmans It's not often that the NFL gets to see a matchup between two teams both coming off a bye week. But it's straight up impossible to find a game between two teams off a bye that both won their previous games on walk-off overtime touchdowns, because it's never happened before. It'll happen this Sunday night as the Cowboys (5-1) take on the Minnesota Vikings (3-3) in a high-flying Halloween showdown.

The Arizona Cardinals have won their last five games by at least a touchdown, covering all five spreads. Can they keep the streak going?

The Vikings should keep Oli Udoh in the starting lineup. Here's why:

Twelve players with Idaho ties got on the field in Week 7.

Jack Miller details the most actionable stats from Week 7 in a concise, numbers-filled format. (Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK)

PROMO: Join BeaversEdge.com and get 30 DAYS FREE!With the seventh week of the NFL regular season in the books, BeaversEdge.com recaps how the Oregon State Beavers fared over the weekend...MORE: Notes ...

"From the beginning, I always came in and did what I had to do just to make myself better," Dantzler said. "I came to work each and every day and I gave 110 percent and me being out Week 1, I feel like that humbled me because I wasn't expecting that, so it just made me push a little more than what I was doing at first." Now he has an even bigger opportunity.