As injuries piled up on the Minnesota Vikings over the first month of the season, the team could at least lean on a defense that was making it hard on opponents to move the football through the air and score points.
After two woeful performances in five days, that typically sturdy crutch is clearly broken.
Brian Flores’ defense got torched for the second straight week during Thursday night’s brutal, 37-10 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium.
The Vikings were bad in last week’s loss at home to the Philadelphia Eagles, surrendering 14.