{"id":243972,"date":"2025-07-29T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/243972\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:00:12","slug":"pads-pop-for-1st-time-vikings-defense-dominant-in-2-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/243972\/","title":{"rendered":"Pads Pop for 1st Time; Vikings Defense Dominant in 2-Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three observations presented by <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mneye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Eye Consultants<\/a>, the Proud LASIK Partner of the Minnesota Vikings:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8216;D-cisive&#8217; 2-minute drill<\/p>\n<p>The Purple People Eaters \u2014 the elite group that laid the foundation of &#8220;meeting at the quarterback&#8221; \u2014 would have been proud of the 2025 defense.<\/p>\n<p>Practice closed with a 2-minute drill by the first-team offense against the first-team defense and the second-team offense against the second-team defense.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell had the offense start the drive with 1:15 left on the clock and down 13-10.<\/p>\n<p>Javon Hargrave and Ivan Pace, Jr., quickly converged in the backfield on J.J. McCarthy for a loss of 5. After an offsides penalty against the defense, the unit forced an incompletion on a pass to Jordan Mason. On third-and-14, a convention of defensive players that included Jonathan Allen met in the backfield.<\/p>\n<p>While not great results for the offense, it was a reinforcement of the signings of Hargrave and Allen to add to the interior pass rush.<\/p>\n<p>The second-team defense also prevailed quickly, forcing three consecutive incompletions by Sam Howell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are three observations presented by Minnesota Eye Consultants, the Proud LASIK Partner of the Minnesota Vikings: 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[14288,7,233,259,2529,14289,1025,31439,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-243972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-3-observations-story","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-minnesotavikings","13":"tag-news-3-observations","14":"tag-news-index","15":"tag-news-training-camp","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114933584690529009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243972","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=243972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}