Kevin O'Connell on Vikings' Win Over Bears

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00:00 Excited for our team, being 1-0 in the division.

00:05 Lots of things we can improve on as a football team, but

00:09 the number one thing I wanted to see today was just our response.

00:12 And I thought our defense was a great example of regardless,

00:17 what was going on in the football game,

00:19 our inability to move it in the second half.

00:23 Offensively, they just never flinched.

00:25 They made a bunch of big, big time plays.

00:28 Jordan Hicks was tremendous, Byron Murphy, Josh Mattelis,

00:31 Daniel Hunter are just a few of the names that come to mind.

00:35 They got off to a great start.

00:36 They forced a bunch of negatives.

00:37 We finally did win the turnover battle.

00:39 And then ultimately, able to get a big turnover there late by Byron to

00:46 kind of seal that drive up and allow us to get a first down and

00:51 run that clock all the way out essentially on that sequence.

00:55 Offensively, we gotta be better.

00:57 Didn't run it all that well today, didn't handle the movement,

00:59 didn't handle a lot of the things we anticipated that we did see.

01:03 And then in general, just a couple plays here and there in the past game.

01:08 I thought Kirk played really clean, really efficient football.

01:12 Gave some guys some opportunities, Jordan down the sideline in the first half,

01:15 couple third downs there.

01:17 Where we're just slightly off, we'll detail stuff up and

01:22 continue to try to push forward.

01:24 And proud of our group all together to get a win in the NFC North.

01:29 Just gotta start finding ways now.

01:32 Our response now off of a victory is to take a strong look at the tape in really

01:36 all three phases and figure out how we improve and

01:41 continue to just chase our best performance, which is still out there for us.