Head coach Leslie Frazier believes Kevin Williams played his best game of the season Sunday. The defensive tackle finished with 8-tackles and recorded his first sack of the season. It's too bad the Vikings lost to the Raiders because Frazier would have given Williams the game ball.

After a miserable performance against Green Bay, it sounds like Vikings coach Leslie Frazier is throwing his defensive line under the bus -- a bit. In his weekly news conference, he called on someone other than Jared Allen to make a play and to “take advantage” of one-on-one situations.

Vikings defensive tackle Kevin Williams is battling plantar fasciitis in his left foot, but the All-Pro won't let that keep him on the sideline when he returns from his two-game StarCaps suspension on Sunday. Williams says he's ready to play after yelling at the TV during the first two games.

Vikings coach Leslie Frazier is holdings his ground. He says the quarterback position isn't the team's problem right now, and kinks in the offense need to be worked out.

Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said Friday that the NFL wrote him a letter acknowledging that there was a facemask penalty that was not called on the last play of the Vikings loss to Detroit last Sunday. Frazier had little reaction, saying only that he's moving on.

What did Vikings coach Leslie Frazier think of his secondary in Minnesota's 35-32 loss to Denver? It was "just bad," he said.

Kevin Williams was forced to sit at home and watch the Vikings give the first to games away. He said the Vikings can't afford to let that happen again, and that they "need to get it going this week" against Detroit.