Kevin O'Connell on Vikings' Defense

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00:00 Kevin, what was your sense for why Jordan Love looked much more comfortable this time

00:04 than when the last time?

00:05 Yeah, you know, I thought they had a good plan.

00:07 You know, anytime we were soft in coverage, they were taking completions.

00:10 When we tightened up, they were able to get some explosives down the field.

00:15 Yeah, I would have to go back and take a look at kind of how, you know, what, you know,

00:20 individual plays and things like that.

00:21 But just they seem to be able to, you know, they seem to be able to get enough of their

00:25 run game going to kind of stay efficient.

00:28 There was a lot of times where they were, you know, third and shorts, third and inches,

00:32 getting first downs and kind of able to, you know, stay on the field and possess the ball

00:36 when they moved it.

00:38 And we certainly didn't do much offensively, especially in the first half, to be able to

00:43 combat that with time and possession and really getting into any sort of a flow offensively.

00:47 And you've got to be able to convert some third downs.

00:49 You've got to be able to limit the negative plays, sacks and penalties and things like

00:53 that.

00:54 And it just felt like we were pressing a little bit, you know, after they started to get a

00:58 little bit of a lead on us.

00:59 Maybe we pressed as a team and all of which, you know, comes back.

01:03 And I look at my responsibilities to make sure that we're competing for four quarters

01:07 and trying to do everything we can to battle back if it hasn't started the way we wanted,

01:11 which it certainly did not.

01:13 And we go from there.