10 Vikings-Saints Numbers of Note: Wild Card Game is Zimmer’s 100th Game with Minnesota

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Here’s a look at 10 numbers of note in advance of Sunday’s Wild Card game:


100 – Sunday’s game will mark Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer’s 100th game (excludes preseason) with Minnesota. Since taking the helm in 2014, Zimmer is 57-38-1 in regular-season games and 1-2 in the postseason.


3 – The 2019 Saints are just the third 13-3 team to play in the Wild Card round since 1990, when the NFL expanded to a six-team field for each conference. The other two teams to fit the situation? The 2011 Saints, who advanced to the Divisional round and lost to San Francisco, and the 1999 Titans, who advanced to Super Bowl XXXIV.


93.1 – Vikings kicker Dan Bailey was fantastic through the regular season, making 27-of-29 (93.1 percent) of his field goal attempts. His only two misses came at Green Bay and at Detroit in Weeks 2 and 7, respectively. Minnesota is fourth-best in field goal rate behind Jacksonville (97.1), Baltimore (96.6) and Pittsburgh (93.6).


7 & 16 – The Saints rank seventh in passing yards per game with 265.3 but have been less effective on the ground this season, ranking 16th in rushing yards per game (108.6).


6 – New Orleans’ defense ranks sixth in the league on third downs, having allowed its opponents to convert just 34.8 percent of their third-down attempts. Minnesota converted 42.8 percent of its third downs this season.