Herbert Leads Chargers To Comfortable Thursday Night Football Win Over Vikings

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Justin Herbert threw for 227 yards and 3 touchdowns, and nan Los Angeles Chargers defeated nan Minnesota Vikings 37-10 connected Thursday night, ending a skid of 3 losses successful 4 games that knocked them from atop nan AFC West.

The Chargers (5-3) won for nan first clip since Week 6 astatine Miami, bouncing backmost 4 days aft a resounding 38-24 conclusion to nan Indianapolis Colts.

Keenan Allen had 4 catches for 44 yards and joined Hall of Famer Antonio Gates arsenic nan only players successful Chargers history pinch 11,000 receiving yards.

The Vikings (3-4) mislaid consecutive games for nan first clip this season, pinch some coming successful a five-day span. They managed conscionable 12 first downs, were 3 of 11 connected 3rd down and had nan shot for conscionable 21 minutes.

Carson Wentz started connected short remainder successful spot of backmost JJ McCarthy, who missed his 5th consecutive crippled pinch an ankle injury. Wentz was 15 of 27 for 144 yards pinch 1 touchdown and an interception while getting sacked 5 times. He played done a enarthrosis wounded that he aggravated aggregate times.

The Chargers had chances to people connected each 4 of their possessions successful nan first half, and they led 21-3 astatine nan break. They missed only connected Cameron Dicker’s 49-yard field-goal effort that went wide near aft a bad snap. Dicker had made 46 of 47 attempts astatine home. Oronde Gadsden II caught an eight-yard TD pass, Kimani Vidal scored connected a three-yard tally and Ladd McConkey caught a 27-yard scoring pass.

Dicker’s 49-yard section extremity early successful nan 3rd that extended nan lead to 24-3.

After nan Vikings were forced to punt, Herbert was intercepted astatine nan Chargers 26. That led to nan Vikings’ lone touchdown, helped by 2 Chargers penalties. Will Reichard’s 32-yard section extremity was nullified erstwhile nan Chargers were penalized for having excessively galore men connected nan field. The Vikings went for it connected fourth-and-nine and Wentz was astir sacked, but Chargers cornerback Benjamin St-Juste was penalized for forbidden contact. That kept nan thrust live and Wentz deed Jordan Addison for a four-yard people to make it 24-10.

The Chargers answered early successful nan 4th connected Herbert’s six-yard walk complete nan mediate to Tre’ Harris. The Vikings were penalized for excessively whitethorn players connected nan section and nan Chargers overcame a false-start punishment by Foster Sarell.

Rookie RJ Mickens had his first profession interception, picking disconnected Wentz to extremity Minnesota’s first possession successful nan fourth. Two section goals from Dicker completed nan scoring to make it 37-10.