The Minnesota Vikings modified a defense from 2019 that ranked fifth in the business in points allowed. It was not a tour-de-force unit in all areas like Minnesota’s 2017 rendition. Last year, the team ranked 14th in yards allowed. The takeaways mitigated this rather mediocre standing as Minnesota yanked the ball from opponents 31 times – the fourth-most in the NFL during 2019. The team bent, did not wholly break that often, and took the ball away from the opposition.
Then the time came to blow up the group.
The Vikings poked the hornet’s nest too many times with the dollars.