Meanwhile, Montgomery is 36th in yards (159) and 38th in attempts (35). Montgomery didn’t practice on Wednesday and was a limited participant both Thursday and Friday. He is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game.
On the other side, the Vikings rank 23rd in the NFL in rushing yards allowed (131.0 per game) and 31st in rushing touchdowns given up per game (1.8).
Minnesota Defensive Coordinator Ed Donatell acknowledged Thursday that it’s going to be “a tough day” trying to slow down Chicago. He noted the Vikings defense has faced four completely different offensive schemes to start.
“You go to Aaron Rodgers, then you go to Philly, and that’s a different operation. Then you go with Detroit — Detroit’s just stacking up points. They’re [scoring] 30-plus points a game. And they got, what, 24 [points] on us? And we felt terrible, you know what I mean? We felt terrible,” Donatell said. “And then you go to last week where we’re playing a team that was hurting a little bit, but you knew they were going to put something together and got the quarterback runs going and so forth. They played good team ball and made it a tight game. It’s different every week, and this week’s another different week.”
Nose tackle Harrison Phillips said the Vikings said the run defense was “something we’re excited to work on this week, because we have a great test in front of us.
“They run the ball very well,” Phillips said. “It’s always a fun feeling to get back out there and put our stamp of our standard on the field.”
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