Last week, the Chargers trailed the Colts 23-3 at halftime and never could recover in a 38-24 loss.<\/p>\n
It’s safe to say this is a bit of a better start. Los Angeles scored touchdowns on its first two drives and leads the Minnesota 21-3 at halftime.<\/p>\n
It was nearly a very different story, though. Isaiah Rodgers appeared to pick off Justin Herbert’s first pass of the night and return it for a touchdown, but the play was overturned, with referee Clete Blakeman determining the ball hit the ground without Rodgers’ control.<\/p>\n
Herbert took immediate advantage, ripping a 17-yard pass to Keenan Allen to convert third and 13. Eleven plays later, Herbert found Oronde Gadsden II for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
After a quick Minnesota three and out, the Chargers went right down the field again, with Kimani Vidal powering in from 3 yards out.<\/p>\n
The Vikings got on the board via a Will Reichard field goal, but otherwise there’s been very little positive momentum for the offense. Carson Wentz, wearing a sizable brace on his left shoulder, showed some clear discomfort on a throw late in the half, and that will bear watching.<\/p>\n
Also worth watching: Can the Vikings defense figure it out? Herbert capped a brilliant two-minute drive with a 27-yard touchdown to Ladd McConkey. In fitting fashion, Reichard came up short on a 53-yard field goal attempt to end the half.<\/p>\n
Keep it right here for our analysis and updates when the second half returns!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the Chargers trailed the Colts 23-3 at halftime and never could recover in a 38-24 loss.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[135279,135283,135281,135282,135278,14388,31111,6337,8851,349,99,92735,135280,100630],"class_list":["post-247578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chargers-vs-vikings-game-score","tag-chargers-vs-vikings-live-streaming","tag-chargers-vs-vikings-odds","tag-chargers-vs-vikings-prediction","tag-chargers-vs-vikings-score","tag-justin-herbert","tag-keenan-allen","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-thursday-night-football","tag-tnf","tag-tnf-on-amazon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247578","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=247578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}