{"id":222039,"date":"2025-07-20T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/222039\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:00:49","slug":"opinions-split-for-vikings-vs-texans-in-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/222039\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinions Split for Vikings Vs. Texans in Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vikings 24, Texans 21 \u2013 Pete Prisco, CBS Sports<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a big game between two undefeated teams. The Vikings are a surprise team, while the Texans were expected to be good. The Minnesota defense has been really good. They will throw a ton of looks at C.J. Stroud. I think that will be the difference in the game. They will force a turnover and get a lot of pressure. The Vikings win a close one.<\/p>\n

Texans 27, Vikings 21 \u2013 Staff, Bleacher Report<\/a><\/p>\n

In one of two matchups between unbeaten teams, the Houston Texans will go on the road to face a surprising Minnesota Vikings squad that beat the San Francisco 49ers 23-17 at home last week.<\/p>\n

Under Head Coach Kevin O’Connell, an established play-caller, Sam Darnold is playing his best football. In two games, he has thrown for four touchdowns and two interceptions with a 72-percent completion rate.<\/p>\n

[Bleacher Report NFL analyst Kristopher] Knox sees this matchup as a potential statement game for Darnold, but he expects the Vikings quarterback to struggle against the Texans third-ranked total defense in a loss.<\/p>\n

“This game will tell us a lot about just how good the Vikings are,” Knox said. “Last week’s convincing win over San Francisco showed that Minnesota can be a player in the NFC race, and there are plenty of reasons to believe that game wasn’t a fluke. Brian Flores has the defense clicking, Justin Jefferson is as dangerous as ever, and Darnold is providing above-average quarterback play.<\/p>\n

“That said, I have a feeling that Darnold comes back to earth a bit against a Texans defense that can make life miserable for opposing signal-callers,” Knox added. “Jefferson (quad) may not be at 100 percent, and we still don’t know the status of Jordan Addison, who missed last week’s game with an ankle injury. Houston survived a sloppy game against Chicago last Sunday, and I think a more focused effort gets them a win in this one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vikings 24, Texans 21 \u2013 Pete Prisco, CBS Sports This is a big game between two undefeated teams.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[39877,7,221,253,36895,2368,42239,1025,1219,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-222039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-expert-picks","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houston-texans-at-minnesota-vikings-2024-reg-3","13":"tag-houstontexans","14":"tag-news-expert-picks","15":"tag-news-index","16":"tag-news-team","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114885695065700563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}