Creative playcalling allows Vikings to show pulse in run game

EAGAN, Minn. – The idea of offensive balance was never lost on Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator John DeFilippo. After the run game fell stagnant from Weeks 2-4, DeFilippo had to change up his approach to establishing a ground attack against his former team without Dalvin Cook (hamstring) and with an offensive line that has struggled to run block.

“There is no one in this building that wants to run the ball more than I do,” DeFilippo said last week. “Because it takes a lot of pressure off of me to not have to have the perfect protection, to not have to call the perfect route against the coverage that you deem you think you are going to get. The quarterback is in duress at times where…