Vikings Quotes
Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell on defeating the Niners in Week 2:
“Really pleased with our soccer group. When you play the defending NFC Conference Champions, you’re signing up for a 12-round heavyweight struggle. We talked lots about taking part in fashion, we talked about how we wish to play like a soccer group, no matter who we’re taking part in. I really need these issues to point out up, as a result of we have made such an emphasis on it.
O’Connell on getting ready to face San Francisco:
“I give Kyle (Shanahan), his teaching employees and all these gamers a lot credit score for what they’ve been capable of maintain for therefore lengthy, and so they do it by taking part in soccer the suitable manner. They impose their will on opponents, and this group is — that is a improbable soccer group. If you wish to go wherever on this league, particularly in our convention, we all know, it is coming, final yr and some earlier than that, that it is going to be a group in your schedule whether or not they have been on it initially or not. You’re going to need to ultimately play ’em. We simply bought to get the primary crack at ’em in week two. John Lynch. They do the whole lot the suitable manner and you are signing up for the whole lot you’ll be able to probably give on a Sunday afternoon.”
Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold on a ‘group win’ vs. the 49ers:
“Great group win. I believed protection performed their butts off in the present day, particular groups as effectively getting that blocked punt was enormous. And then clearly an awesome group in San Francisco, to have the ability to come out as a group and struggle as a group the best way we did. That final drive, the offensive line doing their factor, operating the ball late within the third quarter, early within the fourth, simply guys stepping up. of the fellows.”