Sam Bradford was rolling along with the Minnesota Vikings right until he got squashed by his former team last week.

Then again, at least he was playing. 

It’s been a while since Chicago’s Jay Cutler could say that.

Bradford tries to shake off a six-sack outing in the Vikings’ first loss when Minnesota meets the returning Cutler and the struggling Bears tonight.

Things couldn’t have gone much worse for Bradford and the Vikings (5-1) in a 21-10 defeat to Philadelphia that seemed to expose their shortcomings and lay out a blueprint for the rest of the league.

“I think we just realized that we’ve got a lot of work to do, but when you look at the film and you look at the things, the mistakes that we made on Sunday, they’re all fixable,” Bradford said.

“A lot of them were just mental mistakes. They’re things that we have done correctly the previous five weeks and just failed to execute or failed to do them correctly on Sunday. So, we’ve just got to get back on track and go out there and be the offense we know we can be.”

The Eagles disguised their blitzes and had their way with the offensive line. It all added up to a rough outing for Bradford .

Besides the six sacks, he absorbed 12 hits, fumbled four times and lost two of them. He also threw an interception.

The Bears (1-6), meanwhile, have struggled through injuries and poor play on offense and defense in their worst start since the 2000 team dropped seven of its first eight.  For Cutler, it hasn’t been easy to watch.