Best front 7 in the NFL? Your Minnesota Vikings

[StickierBuns]

If Allen and Hargrave remain healthy, its impossible to say the interior won't be majorly improved. As a byproduct, Harrison Phillips will be more effective. The depth/rotational is pretty decent and will be more fresh. But to what degree its improved is the tough part to forecast.

[pattersaur]

If Allen and Hargrave remain healthy, its impossible to say the interior won't be majorly improved. As a byproduct, Harrison Phillips will be more effective. The depth/rotational is pretty decent and will be more fresh. But to what degree its improved is the tough part to forecast.

Yeah this ranking feels like a bet on Brian Flores as much as anything. He's been great and hopefully our defense will continue to be stout. I still have memories of Zimmer's defense getting "figured out" and old after a few years, and falling off a cliff. I am not expecting that to happen with the Vikings this year but anything is possible. I'm getting really excited for the season!

[MaroonBells]

Defensive front or our edge rushers?  Do you really think our DL last year had anything to do with those stats, it was our biggest weak spot last year.  I have high hopes for the DTs, but they both have question marks and do not see them transforming the DL into a top 5 DL.  Also, our LBs are not top 5.  This is about the overall front 7 and they are not top 5 in the league.

Front 7 includes both. It includes our off-ball linebackers as well. So that front 7 is Greenard, Allen, Phillips, Hargrave, Van Ginkel (and/or Turner), Pace and Cashman. That's a damn solid group. And just looking through some depth charts, I don't see any front 7s that are clearly better. For example, I don't think there's any question that Philly led this field last year. But they lost two key members of that front.

[StickierBuns]

https://www.startribune.com/vikings-trai.../601441411

RandBall: Do the Vikings have the best front seven in the NFL?
One NFL analyst says the answer is yes. When you look at their projected starters, it’s hard to disagree. Michael Rand looks at that and more in today’s 10 things to know.

"One gets the sense that the Vikings know they can be really good this year, and that their belief has been bolstered considerably by their offseason additions.

How that translates on the field remains to be seen, but head coach Kevin O’Connell is ready for the challenge.

“It’s time for us to acknowledge what we’re actually trying to build here,” he said Tuesday. “What that’s going to take is, in my opinion, an invisible presence in this building of understanding that we are capable, but we’ve got to put in a lot of work to feel totally worthy in those moments to get to where we want to get to.

[greediron]

Front 7 includes both. It includes our off-ball linebackers as well. So that front 7 is Greenard, Allen, Phillips, Hargrave, Van Ginkel (and/or Turner), Pace and Cashman. That's a damn solid group. And just looking through some depth charts, I don't see any front 7s that are clearly better. For example, I don't think there's any question that Philly led this field last year. But they lost two key members of that front.

Still crazy to me that Pace is a UDFA that is rocking it at MLB for an elite defense.