{"id":417173,"date":"2025-10-03T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/417173\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:53:10","slug":"vikings-gear-up-to-face-browns-rookies-and-de-myles-garrett-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/417173\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings gear up to face Browns rookies and DE Myles Garrett in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings head coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell remembers scouting Gabriel during the pre-draft process and getting to know him as both a player and a person. He pointed out that Gabriel has the ability to make all the throws. In Gabriel&#8217;s final two college seasons, he completed 69 percent or more of his passes and threw for a combined 7,517 yards. During the same period, he also scrambled when needed, running for 522 yards and scoring 19 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has really unique athleticism, quickness in the pocket to evade the rush and has always been able to make plays on schedule and also be a weapon off schedule,&#8221; O&#8217;Connell said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to make sure we can adapt to that athleticism and still find a way to contain him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though he has the ability to, Vikings LB Jonathan Greenard said he doesn&#8217;t think that the Browns want Gabriel to have to use his legs and want him to play from the pocket. However, he does think that Gabriel&#8217;s athleticism will allow the Browns to call more dynamic plays via play action to get him to the perimeter of the field.<\/p>\n<p>While Gabriel presents different challenges than QB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clevelandbrowns.com\/team\/players-roster\/joe-flacco\/\" title=\"Joe Flacco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Flacco<\/a>, Greenard said Gabriel still has to face the Vikings&#8217; defense. Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores employs blitzes and disguises to try and confuse the quarterback both pre- and post-snap. In his first start, Gabriel will attempt to diagnose that defense and what comes with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s going to obviously have to deal with our defense, but at the end of the day, I&#8217;m pretty sure they have a good game plan over there, so we don&#8217;t look at it as any less of an opponent,&#8221; Greenard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vikings head coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell remembers scouting Gabriel during the pre-draft process and getting to know him as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[52229,86,85,54,2337,198,7,69307,6,40764],"class_list":{"0":"post-417173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-adpartnerwhat_theyre_saying_article","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-minnesota-vikings-at-cleveland-browns-2025-reg-5","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-what-theyre-saying"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115311044569553681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417173","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=417173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}