R.N says you have to beat the Eagles.

They run the ball.

You know, as the way that this schedule is going to play out, there are going to be some teams

that really test the Vikings run defense.

And it's hard to get a beat on how good the run defense is going to be

when you're watching camp practices. Now, personally, I think that the running game looked

really good for the Vikings. So then you go, wait, did the run defense look bad? Then,

like, I guess so. I mean, I didn't think it looked terrible, but I thought that the

offensive line was pretty well locked in. And I thought Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones looked

really good, especially Mason to me for the run game. I don't have a good feel for how good

their run defense is going to be with Hargrave and Allen on the field at those three technique positions, and then Jalen

Redmond and Levi Drake Rodriguez mixing in. I think it can be still good, but when you take

Harrison Phillips out of the mix, that just becomes harder. Now, it's not like Jonathan Allen and

Javon Hargrave are 147 pound defensive tackles. These are big gentlemen,

especially Hargrave. And at times in Hargrave's career, he's been a really good run defender,

just more with San Francisco. He was a get in the backfield guy. And sometimes that's dictated

just by the role. And Redmond was a very good run defender last year.

I keep going back to last year's numbers may have been a little bit inflated.

Those guys were good, but they also may have been inflated by the score.

So if you let the Eagles get ahead, if you let the Chargers get ahead, that's where I think

it's concerning for this defense.

Because playing from ahead, the Vikings defense should be the nastiest in one of the nasties

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