{"id":157788,"date":"2025-09-15T06:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157788\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:10:07","slug":"falcons-vikings-nfl-week-2-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157788\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons-Vikings NFL Week 2 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Raimondi<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757916607_535_raimondi_marc.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marc Raimondi<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Staff WriterMarc Raimondi&#8217;s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn&#8217;t his first year at ESPN. He joined the company in 2019 and was a top combat sports reporter. He also covered professional wrestling and wrote the book &#8220;Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Pro Wrestling&#8217;s New World Order Changed America,&#8221; which was published by Simon &amp; Schuster in 2025. Raimondi also worked for the New York Post and Newsday, beginning in 2009, covering high school and college sports, plus the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seifert<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757916607_76_seifert_kevin.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seifert<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Staff WriterKevin Seifert is a staff writer who covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL at ESPN. Kevin has covered the NFL for over 20 years, joining ESPN in 2008. He was previously a beat reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Times. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.Sep 14, 2025, 11:25 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"49fd392a-86fe-4df3-1b77-9bbfa18b2ad5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> (1-1) leaned on their young defense and their new kicker in <a data-player-guid=\"99108130-9aa1-bc8d-79fd-8804fbbdc25a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4051167\/parker-romo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Romo<\/a> to beat the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3db556c9-ed76-a7a5-4ccb-a92fc6db4334\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> (1-1) in an NFL Week 2 matchup Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Our two team reporters &#8212; Marc Raimondi for the Falcons, Kevin Seifert for the Vikings &#8212; were at U.S. Bank Stadium, and they kept us updated on all the biggest plays and highlights from the night.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons-Vikings highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Raimondi Close Marc Raimondi ESPN Staff WriterMarc Raimondi&#8217;s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-157788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}