Vikings avoid costly mistakes, control game to defeat Washington

Late in the fourth quarter Thursday night, as the Vikings offense rolled through an 8:16 drive that would exhaust the remaining minutes of the team's 19-9 victory over the Washington Redskins, coach Mike Zimmer looked up at the U.S. Bank Stadium scoreboard to see a statistic that left him stunned.

"I was shocked when it said we had 428 yards and they had 200, and it was a 10-point game," Zimmer said. "I figured it'd be a tough game, but sometimes you just don't know when you're facing a team that's 1-6, whatever they were. They fought; they played hard."

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