Worth the two day wait

It doesn't help the Vikings draft position, but I don't care.

A win on the road.

Outdoors.

On grass.

In December.

Against a quality opponent.

Those wins have been hard to come by for the Vikings over the past two decades.

But they got one tonight and it feels good.

I'm currently vacationing on Canada's East Coast, so it's almost 1 a.m. as I write this and this post will be brief. I hope to have a more detailed writeup on the Vikes win later tomorrow because there are many good things to discuss.

But a few quick words on Joe Webb's performance in this unexpected 24-14 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

As we dissect his numbers in this game, I think one of the most important is 0. That is how many turnovers Webb had against an opportunistic Eagles defence.

All year long, Viking quarterbacks (okay, okay, this was mostly Brett Favre) have coughed the ball up and given opponents short fields or killed potential Viking scoring drives.

They've made bad decisions - holding onto the ball too long, throwing into tight coverages, etc.,etc - they been sacked too much, and they've fumbled the ball a fair bit. Sometimes they've even been unlucky. But whatever the reasons, Viking quarterbacks have consistently been responsible for costly turnovers.

Joe Webb didn't do any of that in this game. And on a night when the Vikings defence finally played like the Vikings defence we expected coming into 2010, that was just as important as any passes Webb completed or runs he made.

Well done, Joe Webb. Well done.