Pre-scrimmage problems plague the NFL, and none are worse than the Vikings.

Penalties are part of a fast-paced, physical game full of chaos and collisions. But prefix penalties are just mental errors. Dumb mistakes. Easily fixable, but not always fixable.

According to NFLpenalties.com, the Vikings have 22 pre-snap penalties, including on defense and special teams. This is the fourth largest number. The Vikings are also the only team in the league to have been flagged at least once for each of these pre-snap violations: false start (10), illegal line-up (four), delay of game (three), illegal shift (two), illegal movement . (one) and the attacking offside, which was a guy, Jordan Addison, who was just lining up offside.

“It feels like a lot of flags,” Wes Phillips said Oct. 15, a day after the Bills and Jets were flagged 11 times each for a combined 204 yards on “Monday Night Football.”

“I don’t know if the officials are just abandoning them more, or there are a lot more violations, or it’s a combination.”

Over seven weeks, teams are averaging 7.6 penalties of all types per game. This could be the highest figure since 2019 (8.01).

When it comes to pre-snap penalties, teams average 2.57 per game. That’s up 0.41 from last year and 0.60 from 2022, and would be the highest since NFLpenalties.com began compiling penalty charts in 2009.