Bridgewater started the game by completing just one of his first seven passes. But the one that will haunt him was the late miss, when he failed to connect with an open DJ Moore in the back of the end zone. That Moore came up limping with an ankle injury on the play makes it worse (there were no injury updates after the game), but the miss was egregious on its own.

On third-and-goal from the Vikings’ 3-yard line, Bridgewater gunned one high, and the chance to end the game went away as quickly as the possession. After taking over at the Vikings’ 9-yard line following a muffed punt by Chad Beebe, the Panthers used just 16 seconds of game time to go three-and-out, leaving far too much time for Kirk Cousins to lead another comeback.

“I think we’ve just got to be better from