After eight games, the 4-4 Vikings had a chance for the season to break in one direction or another. Four games later, the season has broken badly.

Mainly because the offense is currently broken.

Consider these facts, courtesy of NBC Sports research.

Last week in Seattle, the Vikings were shut out for the first time since November 11, 2007, when they lost at Green Bay, 34-0. (The next most recent goose egg happened at the Superdome in 1991, when the Vikings lost to the Saints by the same score from six days ago: 26-0.)

During the four-game losing streak (Minnesota hasn’t lost five in a row since a 2011 free-fall season that ended at 4-13), the Vikings have surrendered more than twice the number of points they’ve scored, 95 to 42.

The Vikings are averaging 10.5 points per game since ma

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