"More than seven minutes rolled off the clock Saturday night as six different players caught a pass and Adrian Peterson rushed six times.

A false-start penalty on right tackle Phil Loadholt eventually forced the Vikings to settle for a 36-yard field goal by Ryan Longwell, but that's hardly the point.

The first-team offense had momentum for the first time in the brief Donovan McNabb era.

With a 13-7 fourth-quarter lead over the Seahawks in Saturday's exhibition game at CenturyLink Field, the Vikings can build off a 13-play, 81-yard drive that began on their own 1-yard line.

Especially since it came after they managed just three offensive plays in the first quarter.

The defense remembered how to tackle after last week's sloppy start in Tennessee, holding the Tarvaris Jackson-led Seahawks offense to eight first downs and 139 yards in the first half and stuffing the running game four straight times from their 2-yard line.

McNabb, starting his second game in purple, played with poise and controlled the pace without turnovers. He threw an errant third-down pass to tight end Kyle Rudolph at midfield to cue the field-goal unit, but overall there weren't many complaints with his play.

For the most part, McNabb outperformed Jackson (11 of 21, 75 yards), who relied mostly on screen passes and missed on most of his intermediate or deep attempts. "