Despite putting themselves in a good position to make a run in the second half, the Minnesota Vikings couldn’t pull out the victory against the Kansas City Chiefs, losing by a score of 27-20.
With a 1-4 record, the Vikings are facing an uphill climb that they also experienced with a 1-5 start in 2020. Head coach Kevin O’Connell was asked about how long it takes him to get over the loss and move on to next week.
“My job is to go attack this thing from this very moment forward,” O’Connell said. “I’m going to remain — I think you guys know this about me now. I’m going to remain positive through and through because I believe in this group. I believe in our coaches. I believe in this organization. Results just have not gone our way, and I believe my job is to figure out, look very closely at all of these results and continue find ways to coach this team better, deploy our personnel better, give people opportunities to maybe prove some things to us to earn more ops and then continue to drive forward.
“There’s not going to be any questioning or doubt in my mind knowing that we’ve had four tough results. But I do feel like this team is able to compete and we’re going to do that every single week, and I believe in the end, we’re going to find out exactly what we are through writing our story for this whole season. And I look forward to the challenge of continuing to seek becoming that team.”
The one benefit for the Vikings is that they have all six of their divisional games coming up. If they win all six of them, it could help the Vikings come back in the NFC North.
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