Kevin O'Connell Monday Presser Opening Statement

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00:00 Having a chance to go through the tape,

00:02 thought we did some good things in all three phases,

00:06 but clearly not enough to overcome the three turnovers

00:11 as we talked about post-game last night.

00:14 A lot of situations in the football game

00:18 where it was kind of one of those games

00:20 where field position and limiting

00:24 some easy opportunities for points for the other side,

00:27 especially with how well our defense was playing,

00:31 you know, critical at certain times in the football game

00:34 to have those things come up.

00:35 We've got to continue to try to fight to, you know,

00:39 have it be a part of our winning formula to, you know,

00:42 at the very least try to break even with that metric.

00:45 I know in our losses,

00:47 that turnover margin has really been a deciding factor

00:51 in all of them,

00:52 but that doesn't take away the fact

00:54 that there's a lot of areas that we can continue to improve.

00:57 I can continue to improve for our team,

00:59 and that's what we'll get ready to go do

01:01 with a great opportunity to be back at US Bank this week.

01:06 Division opponent, we're 2-0 in the division.

01:08 We want to continue to win our games in the division.

01:12 It's a huge priority for us, and it's going to be a challenge.

01:16 Chicago went and played a really good game yesterday,

01:18 had a chance to beat the Lions there,

01:21 you know, a team that's having a great season,

01:23 you know, really hard to beat at home,

01:25 and Chicago went in there and gave them all they could handle.

01:28 So we've got to have a great week of preparation

01:32 and, you know, take that to US Bank

01:34 and have another great atmosphere there.

01:36 It's been phenomenal this year for our team.

01:39 Did want to update you guys on a couple roster moves.

01:42 We did confirm via MRI

01:45 that Dean Lowry did sustain a pec tear.

01:48 He'll have to have that surgically repaired,

01:52 and he will go on IR in the short term here.

01:56 We will activate Chris Reid to the roster in that spot.

02:00 He's done a nice job kind of through his window,

02:03 getting ready to go and gives us another really good depth piece

02:06 along the offensive line.