Odell Beckham Jr. believes he is a targeted player

Indeed, the longest play of the night for Manning was a screen pass to backup running back Paul Perkins, who took the toss and ran it 67 yards to inside the Vikings 5 yard line.

The Vikings Monday Night Football game against the Giants gave Sam Bradford the opportunity to show how much he had learned in his first month in Minnesota and the chance to face a NY defense coordinated by his first NFL Head Coach, Steve Spagnuolo.

Giants quarterback Eli Manning wasn’t in the mood to hear excuses after the team’s second straight loss.

The Harris fumble set up the Vikings with a 1-yard touchdown run by Matt Asiata and a 7-0 lead.

Quarterback Eli Manning isn’t defending Beckham’s complaint.

The Vikings beat the New York Giants 24-10 on Monday behind their most-balanced offensive production to date in 2016, rushing for a season-most 104 yards. Then we’ll find out whether Bradford’s current team is better than his former team when the Vikings travel to Philadelphia (3-0). “We’ve just got to keep working”. One more and he could have been kicked out of the game per the National Football League rule change instituted after his melee with Norman. “Everybody on this defense wants to be great”.

Before a ear-splittingly loud sellout crowd of 66,690 at their new $1.1bn downtown stadium, Minnesota backed up previous statement-making wins over the Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers with another exhibition of stout defense and workmanlike offense that augurs big things as the season moves forward.

“We go hard every day in the run game, and Coach (Mike) Zimmer challenged us, and I think we stepped up this game and achieved those goals”, said McKinnon, who also caught three passes for 10 yards.

“It just shows our versatility”, linebacker Anthony Barr said.

Beckham now has 22 receptions for 303 yards and no touchdowns through four games this season, with the key stat being (as fantasy owners can attest), is no touchdowns. Kyle Rudolph capped it off with a seven-yard touchdown pass by boxing out Giants cornerback Trevin Wade. “It’s so important to have the right kind of guys in here”, Zimmer said. “I think Jerick could have run better than he did”.

“Let’s see what he really knows at crunch time”, Gruden said of Bradford, who has been putting in extra work in the playbook on his own time since being acquired on September 3. “I just gotta know where I’m at”. “But at the end of the day we came out with a win”. It’s going to be that way.

“That doesn’t work with me”, Beckham said. “That’s something, it’s a tough pill to swallow, but you have to understand it, you have to be able to cope with it and just keep it moving”.

“They did a lot of quick passes on us, so it didn’t really allow us to get the pass rush that we needed”, he said. In fact, Beckham’s only major contribution to the game was receiving an unsportsmanlike penalty and proving once again how easy it is for a defender to get into his head and rattle him. “We can’t afford to do anything”. Yes, the Giants’ game plan was obviously to get the ball out quickly. It’s still early, but the signs are pointing to an inconsistent year for the veteran. “That’s how we’re built”. The interception by Rhodes gave him the chance to make a 44-yarder less than 3½ minutes later.

Rudolph, a 2012 Pro Bowler, has now caught a touchdown in three consecutive games. They are not asking him to do too much, but Bradford is playing at a high level. They’re the money men.

STRUGGLING SECONDARY: The Giants’ secondary is depleted by injuries. He went over to Rhodes aggressively following the catch and proceeded to get in his face. While Patterson wasn’t credited with the forced fumble, having the muscled and speedy 6-foot-2, 220-pound Patterson bearing down on you could make even a season punt returner a bit queasy.

Last week, a couple of days after Beckham’s unfortunate run-in with the kicking net on the sideline during a loss to the Redskins, Newsday’s Bob Glauber talked to a few sports psychologists about Beckham’s behavior.