When the offense gets stalled, one of the first things that Minnesota Vikings fans will blame is the playcalling of head coach Kevin O’Connell.
What you don’t see during the game broadcast is how most plays are designed and develop. Routes run by the receivers nad the coverages that they face are often not shown on the broadcast. Context can get easily lost without having all the prevalent information.
One other element can cloud the judgement of good or bad playcalling: execution. More often than not, a play not working isn’t due to the schematic elements of it but rather how the play is executed. That can be either going against the wrong defense or mistakes by a player on the offense.
That is the case with O’Connell’s playcalling. He does an excellent job of getting the Vikings in good positions to succeed and builds his play calls really well.
I broke down some examples of how he builds off of his concepts and creatively attacks opposing defenses.