{"id":328159,"date":"2025-10-24T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328159\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:46:13","slug":"justin-herbert-and-chargers-dominate-in-blowout-win-over-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328159\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Herbert and Chargers dominate in blowout win over Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Chargers vs. Vikings: How to watch, start time and prediction <\/p>\n<p>What happened to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers<\/a> who started the season with three consecutive wins over AFC West foes?<\/p>\n<p>Injuries along the offensive line and in the backfield account for some of the troubles \u2014 three losses in four games \u2014 but now the defense is breaking down too, especially against the run.<\/p>\n<p>           <video playsinline=\"playsinline\" loop=\"\" preload=\"none\" title=\"Takeaways from Chargers\u2019 loss to Colts\" data-video-id=\"00000199-ff77-dfc7-adbf-fff77d9d0000\">               <\/video>                 <img class=\"image\" alt=\"\"   width=\"473\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761277573_122_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>             <\/p>\n<ul data-element=\"action-bar-menu\" class=\"flex gap-2 list-none  absolute w-full h-10 top-0\">\n<li data-element=\"action-bar-share\" class=\"flex  w-full h-10 top-0 lg:items-center lg:justify-center \">\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"video-enhancement-title\">Sam Farmer breaks down what went wrong for the Chargers in their 38-24 loss to the Indianapolis Colts at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Vikings, who have alternated wins and losses all season and are coming off a six-point loss to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The last time these teams met was two years ago in Minnesota, where the Chargers  held on to win 28-24.<\/p>\n<p><b>How the Vikings can win:<\/b> Protect the football; <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WentCa00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carson Wentz<\/a> is coming off a couple of head-scratcher interceptions against Philadelphia, terrible throws. Even though they don\u2019t have a top-tier running back, try to establish something of a ground game against a defense that has done a poor job of stopping the run the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><b>How the Chargers can win:<\/b> The offensive line is getting healthier with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2025-10-17\/khalil-mack-joe-alt-questionable-chargers-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Alt<\/a> and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2022-08-08\/storm-norton-trey-pipkins-chargers-offensive-tackle-starting-job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Pipkins III<\/a> returning to the practice field and questionable for the game, so give <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/chargers\/story\/2025-10-19\/chargers-lose-colts-jonathan-taylor-defense-nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Herbert<\/a> better protection and more time. Get Kimani Vidal the ball in space. Not much of a running game for the Vikings, but a premier receiver in Justin Jefferson and solid threats in Jordan Addison and T.J. Hockenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chargers vs. Vikings: How to watch, start time and prediction What happened to the Chargers who started the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":328160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,83569,7151,163172,1910,163174,2961,17711,224,5337,5948,14762,18266,1311,10201,5950,6620,43627,163173],"class_list":{"0":"post-328159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-charger","11":"tag-chargers","12":"tag-consecutive-win","13":"tag-game","14":"tag-head-scratcher-interception","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-live-update","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-loss","20":"tag-odd","21":"tag-offensive-line","22":"tag-philadelphia","23":"tag-run","24":"tag-season","25":"tag-time","26":"tag-vikings","27":"tag-wentz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115427094651377437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}