WEBVTT - Vikings Postgame Report: The Vikings Get Frustrated In Philly 24 - 7 | Week 2 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.759 Hey, what's going on? You're played by the play voice 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.800 Paul Allen, joined by analyst and a former Vikings player 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.320 and coach, Pete Versus. Following a convincing Philadelphia Eagles victory 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.360 over Minnesota twenty four to seven. It is the first 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.879 loss in the Kevin O'Connell era, and the team is 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.000 one and one with Detroit on the horizon. Let's begin 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.000 here before we start hearing from some of the luminaries 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.640 with the Minnesota Vikings. But Kirk Cousins had three interceptions 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.560 and they couldn't get anything going in the running game. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.200 How much did that factor into this? Peter factored huge? 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.000 Is Philadelphia had an interception, We blocked the field goal, 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.160 you tall, you know, we were inside the thirty yard 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.640 line I believe four times, at least three, maybe four times, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.440 and put got zero points out of any of those drives. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.279 So that was huge. It was, you know, the first 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.000 interception to slay, I think it was a miscommunication between 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.119 JJ and Cousins. The next couple, you know, those were 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.480 on Kirk. Kirk trying to make something happen, so, you know, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.199 pushing a little bit too hard, and this offense started 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.959 out slowly. You know, Philadelphia, to their credit, changed the 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.920 front that they played. They brought different people in the game, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.760 and you know, they wanted to play a five man front, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.760 get Hassan Reddick on the outside, bringing Jordan Davis to 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.120 play nos and they did that and it took a 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.720 little while for the Vikings to adjust. Meanwhile, defensively, you 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.039 were holding on, you were holding on, and then things 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.640 started to break defensively and mental areas, drop passes offensively, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.200 mental areas defensively. Those were the difference makers in tonight's game. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.160 When you spend the entire well not the entire wake 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.240 up practice, but when so much your focus is on 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.400 a team that just ran for two one hundred and 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.120 sixteen yards and four touchdowns and they come out throwing 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.520 and Jalen Hurts passed for three hundred and thirty three yards, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.040 it's I certainly, in no way would say were the 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.639 Vikings not prepared or ready for an Eagles passing game. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.560 But it can't be disputed that many of these pass 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.560 catchers were wide open. Oh they were. And that's exactly 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.600 It's It's one thing. It's one thing when a guy 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.400 you get the right you know, thread the needle or 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.440 you get a good throw and a good catch. This 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.600 is this is a situation where we were just turning 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.519 guys loose. I mean that the touchdown early to Koys Watkins, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.440 that was a three level route. We had two defenders 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.760 chasing the seven route, the corner route, nobody covering the 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.720 clear The clear is normally the decoy. That's normally the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.359 route that you're run to clear out the zone. It's 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.920 exactly what they call it a clear route, and we 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.480 just said that, but we're not going to cover him. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.399 So you know, Jalen Hurts, they started hit with him 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.839 throwing a week ago against Detroit, he started that game 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.240 oh for five. Tonight he started five for five. So 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.880 you know, credit, you gotta give credit what credits due. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.440 I mean they they have a very extensive running attack. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.040 We were physical with Jalen Hurts early. I think if 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.840 we could have kept them in that game and that 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.360 game plan, those hits would have added up. You know, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.919 this score twenty four to seven. You know, I know 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.360 a lot of fans are gonna be out here. We 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.920 go again, same old Vikings. There was This is a 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.560 closer game than you think. I'm not saying that the 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.160 Vikings would have come away a winner, but there were 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:34.320 so many missed opportunities offensively and defensively, Paul, it's it's 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.520 hard for me to get to that second level of 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.040 that and saying ifs and thens and you know, because 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.960 if if you can't, if you're not catching the ball 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.520 out of the backfield, if you're not covering guys, you 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.080 mean it's gonna be a long year. So um, you know, 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.000 whatever momentum that we had in Week one and emotion 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.120 and everything that we carried into that Green Bay game, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.840 somehow that was lost along the way. And I think 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.800 you take a look at this team and they were 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.200 walk up this field and I of the twenty two starters, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.160 I'm gonna say, you know, eighteen of them are gonna 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:06.600 be like, yeah, I could have played a lot better. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.640 But I do want to take a second, Paul and 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.320 give a hat tip to the special teams unit. Wow, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.040 they they won. You talk about three phase matchup, they 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.479 won the game. They the block field goal, uh, putting 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.520 us on around the thirty yard line. You know, they 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.840 they were difference makers tonight, flipping the field, the whole thing. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.760 So you get, I gotta give, I gotta, I gotta 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.960 you know, give a tip of the cap to to 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.080 that unit and how well those guys play tonight. Coming 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.920 up on the Postgame Report podcast, so you will hear 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.040 the thoughts of Kevin O'Connell via his press conference, likewise 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.640 for Kirk Cousins, and the debut of Ron Johnson's Three Takes. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.480 But we begin with Gabe Henderson and Ben Lieber and 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.680 Between the Lines. Welcome to Between the Lines, fueled by Gatorade. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.960 The Minnesota Vikings fall to the Philadelphia Eagles twenty four 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.520 to seven here at Lincoln Financial Field, and Ben Lieber 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.240 is joining me today, and Ben, from start to finish, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.720 it seemed like the Minnesota Vikings just wasn't ready for 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.360 what the Philadelphia Eagles had. What were your thoughts on 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.640 how this game started and then concluded for the Minnesota Vikings. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.159 You know, I got admit I was a little surprised 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.640 by just how how little we could compete with them 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.480 on a series by series basis. And I knew when 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.680 when they received the first half kickoff that all right, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.960 they're gonna have something for us. I mean, it's game 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.120 two for them as well, and and you know, certainly 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.320 they didn't empty the whole playbook last week, so we're 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.960 gonna see some new wrinkles. We saw tempo, we saw 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.120 you know, right off the bat they go empty personnel, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.200 and we saw Jalen Hurts's arm. You know, we we 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.480 all talked about it before the game that hey, we 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.680 got to make sure that we put Jalen Hurts in 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.040 situation where he's got to become a passing quarterback. Well 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.880 he did that on the first drive and looked really, 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.720 really good and never really lost the momentum as the 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.320 game went on, and then all of a sudden, you 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.200 start throwing in the idea that he can pass the ball. 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.640 Now they still have the read option. Our defense was 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.160 on their heels the whole time. Offensively, a lot of 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.760 just missed opportunities that I saw. We had the protection 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.440 there that the offensive line was providing Kirk. I think 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.480 Kirk missed some throws and missed some open receivers in 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.320 the first quarter and then kind of settled in, was 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.599 able to find some rhythm. You get that big drop 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.200 by Earv, you get a bunch more drops by basically 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.920 every receiver, seemed like in the second half, and you know, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.800 miss reads. You know, JJ whether or not he ran 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.960 the wrong route after that blocked field goal. That was 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.880 a momentum killer. I mean it was just missed opportunities 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.960 that you can't have when you're playing in a really 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.400 hostile environment on primetime TV. Yeah, there were two setting 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.680 change moments tonight, the block field goat and then the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.040 Jordan Hicks interception, and we got zero points off of 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.800 setting change And playing an atmosphere like this, you need 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.720 any kind of momentum that you can get. But I 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.120 want to go back to Jalen Hurts almost four hundred total. Well, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.560 I guess all purple jars today. I pretty much did 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.640 whatever he won. But one thing we were talking about 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.120 was the middle of the field for this defense was 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.480 wide open. What does a running quarterback due to a 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.600 defense that causes holes like that in the defense? Well, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.640 it's interesting, and this is why I think I think 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.480 Philly's offense is going to be a hard out all 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.720 season long. You go back a week ago and Detroit's 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.840 linebackers were very aggressive. They were getting downhill very quickly 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.240 to try to stop any sort of running game as 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.800 if the ball was handed off, and they were exploited 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.640 in the passing game whenever they would pull the ball 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.600 out so it looked like the Vikings linebackers took the 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.840 approach this week of just sort of skating and staying lateral, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.640 not committing to go downhill, so they leave themselves open. Well, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.080 what that does is put them in constant conflict. They 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.080 were neither attacking the line of scrimmage, nor were they 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.880 dropping back in coverage and taking away some of those windows. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.720 So they were sort of stuck right where they started, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.040 and they were in a little bit of like, you know, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.920 coverage purgatory. You're not really helping up front, you're not 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.960 really helping the guys in the back end. Things were 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.880 being thrown in front of the safeties, which is fine, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.960 which is the way the way the defense is designed. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.600 But again, because they didn't know at all whether the 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.160 balls gonna be handed off or the balls being passed, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.160 and they're always playing on their heels, they could never 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.560 get a beat on it. They couldn't they couldn't play aggressive, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.920 and so it's kind of damned if you do, damned 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.400 if you don't. Yeah, how did that affect third down? 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.160 Because they were seven or thirteen on third down they 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.960 average over ten yards per third down, and it seemed 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.600 like we couldn't stopped them. So how did that run 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.360 pass option affect our defense when it came to stopping 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.320 them and giving the ball back to our offense. Well, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.840 we saw too many times with our corners and our safeties. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.040 Either it's bad eyes or their mental busum. It's not 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.120 all on the linebackers. We had a number of occasions 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.320 where it seemed like a safety would bite on an 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.240 intermediate route and we get we get a big one 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.640 over the top. You know, we got a couple look 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.839 like on cam dancler side where he would let a 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.880 guy go thinking that something's going to come back to 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.040 him and it wasn't there. And then you know, guys, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.600 guys doing this too much at each other, like arms 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.280 out in the air like that. Me is that you 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.920 like what's going on? And so again, I just think 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.360 that because you have to keep one eye on the 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.280 running game and one eye on the passing game, had 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.439 our defense just spinning like a top. I want to 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.199 move to the offensive side of the ball. This is 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.960 a shock, say everybody, but Kirk Cousins led our offensive 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.160 rushing yards. Ye had twenty rushing yards. Dal should never happen. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.920 That should never happen. Dalvin cook on. We had six rushes. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.960 So what did this Philadelphia Eagles do to limit us too? 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:19.840 I guess throwing the ball more than what we wanted 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.040 to do. Well. I think they got great penetration up front. Um, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.559 you know, right from right from the get go. On 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.080 the very first snap, you know, Dressau got blown back, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.960 you know, just hat in hands right in its chest 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.120 on a running play, and and um, you know, I 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.640 think from there it kind of set the tone that 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.040 those guys are those front four, We're gonna stay aggressive 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.040 and get up field. And you know, we tried different avenues. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.719 I thought we had, you know, one drive where we 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.480 went twenty one personnel, which is two running backs, one 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.120 tight end. It's a base. It's calling for base personnel 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.120 on defense, and we spread them out. We went empty formation. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.400 We really messed with some of their mismatches and we 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.199 took advantage of that. When it comes to run game, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.920 we when we have to get off scripts so early 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.280 because we need to score now, we have to we 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.200 have to steal back some of that momentum. I think 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.520 it got us a little bit off schedule. You know, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.640 we couldn't play vertically with our offensive line, and again 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.520 they just beat us up. They they flat outs, kind 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.360 of flat out kind of beat us up. Yeah, and 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.760 I guess them beating us up only caused adversity. And 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.760 going back to Kevin O'Connell's first press conference, he talked 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.440 about he wants to start having adversity. Yeah. We talked 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.280 in the Minnesota Vikings podcast earlier this week about us 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.160 being in this honeymoon phase since early February when Kevin 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.000 O'Connell got highed. We're out of that phase now. Yeah. Sure, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.720 So going forward or going back to your conversation from 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.840 a Kevin O'Connell post game, where does this Minnesota Vikings 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.360 team go from here? Well, look, I mean these things 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.560 are gonna happen. I mean, the coach is not gonna 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.240 go first year head coach, and not a lot of 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.160 coach is gonna go seventeen to nine, and you're gonna 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.520 face some adversity. Really, it's just unfortunate that it fell 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.120 as flat as it did today. You know, the really 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.720 the only bright spot was a special teams. They played 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.280 really well, and look, coach O'Connell was you know, I 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.400 think his mood was expected, you know, it was it 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.800 was fine. I mean, obviously he wasn't happy about it, 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.040 but I don't I don't think that he was completely 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.480 dejected because he knows he's got another opportunity. He's got 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.480 another opportunity to look at what went right and what 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.800 went wrong. And I think everybody's just excited to see 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.880 this team go back to US Banks stay him against 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.320 another division opponent. Um, you know, these division games are 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.520 so important. Against a really tough Detroit Lions team, Let's 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.360 see how they respond. You know, seeing how you respond 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.600 to adversity is not always about what happens in the game. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.559 Let's see how these guys respond to adversity with a 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.280 late night of travel. They got to get right back 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.360 and get right back in the game. Player, do the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.400 whole flush thing when when it comes to what you 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.520 learn and what didn't go right, and see how they 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.400 respond in the in the meat of this week and 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.040 how they respond on Sunday. I honestly think a short 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.480 week is the best thing for this Minnesota Vikings team 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.440 because you can just flush it out as quickly as 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.560 possible and get ready for that next game in six 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.880 days against the Detroit Lions. But let's close it out 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.400 with this. What's one positive that the Vikings can take away. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.000 Going into that Detroit Lions game, well, I think we're 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.160 starting to get IRV Smith more involved. Look, he dropped 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.439 a would be touchdown pass, he came back and you know, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.160 I think he had a couple of solid catches and 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.880 made him his presence felt. But I think as we 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.559 get into this, we need to start implementing him a 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.160 little bit more. I thought the way they used Jalen 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.679 Ragor was great early on. He lined up in the 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.640 backfield as a running back. They got him out on 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.120 a wheel route. Now, look it was covered, he wasn't 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.320 the primary target, but we're starting to see a little 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.000 bit more of him. He got involved on a jet 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.160 sweep that resulted in a first down. So let's start 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.000 seeing some of that speed that we keep hearing about 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.960 on some of these simple, maybe gadget ish routes and concepts. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.520 But yet he's another weapon to add to this offense. Well, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.520 a lot of weapons we need that we were going 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.840 to me heading into next week and beyond. But more importantly, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.640 this Minnesota Viking stam has an opportunity to bounce back 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.160 next week at home at noon at US Bank Stadium. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.920 So Vikings fans were looking forward to seeing you there. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.760 For Ben Labor. My name is Gabe Henderson. This is 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.400 between the Lines fueled by Gatorade. Now, Gabe and Ben 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.079 talked about third downs where the Eagles were seven of 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.400 thirteen and um the Vikings were four of twelve on 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.320 kfa N on the Vikings radio network. You you stressed 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.120 an hour before the game how important third down was tonight, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.280 and it completely went pear shape for us. It did. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.800 And we talked also about how this this Philadelphia offense, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.720 because they run the ball so efficiently, you're not going 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.280 to get a lot of third and longs out of them. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:24.679 And we did. We got a lot of those. And 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.240 then we kind of, you know, coin a phrase from 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.040 Denny Green. You know, they let him off the hook. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.559 You know, they were almost sixty percent on third down 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.520 a week ago. Last year they converted at a forty 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.199 five almost a forty six percent rate. That was a 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:43.480 franchise record. But that's the diversity of this offense. And again, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.480 Jalen Hurtz makes this thing start and go, start and stop. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.480 His talent, his talent set and to see him tonight 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.480 sit back there and throw the way he did yards 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.920 after catch, you know, tackling needs to get better. There's 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.960 we didn't do much to take away what they tried 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.840 to do, and they tried to do some new things 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.120 and we need to make them pay for it. Let's 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.360 get the thoughts of Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:14.120 with his postgame press conference following a Philadelphia Eagles twenty 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:19.240 four seven victory over Kevin's Minnesota Vikings. UM. Obviously, ah, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.000 you know, very very difficult night, you know, for our team. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.080 But you got to give the Eagles a lot of credit. Uh. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.160 They they outplayed us and and really controlled the football 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.760 game really in a lot of phases of the game. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.800 But when I look back on tonight, Um, ultimately I think, uh, 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.280 you know, I put I put this one on me. Um, 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:40.640 I put this one on me. I don't think I 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.800 did enough for our team in game. And obviously I 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.640 think our plan, we felt good about our plan. They 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.400 did some things defensively and just seemed to seem to 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.000 kind of push us to the point where we just 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.280 needed to make that one or two plays on a 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.880 drive to kind of get going and see if we 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:01.000 could potentially finish and kind of capture that momentum and 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.320 then ultimately it's just as a football team. Although our 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.840 defense and special teams with the blockfield goal defense with 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.680 a you know, forcing a turn over there late, just 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.000 to try to help us try to get going, and 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.040 ultimately weren't able to capture that. And uh, like I said, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.600 you gotta get Philadelphia a lot of credit. But ultimately 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.880 I do mean it. I do feel like this one's 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.400 on me. And I told our team that, uh, you know, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.120 I'm gonna work like crazy to make sure that this 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.120 does not happen again. And we're I have no doubt 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.520 we'll be prepared and ready to respond like the way 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.000 I know we will do You all three of Cousins' 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.480 interceptions were kind of deep in Philly territory. Do you 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.520 see any similarity or a common threat on those No, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.800 I think, uh, you know, the you know kind of 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.760 looking back on them, Um, they'll all have their own story. Um. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.760 I think we were we were trying to be aggressive, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.920 you know on the uh you know, on all those downs. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.600 They were kind of one of them. That last one, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.520 um was kind of a longer yardage you know, kind 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.560 of situation type thing when we were throwing the ball 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.800 to Adam out in the out kind of the the 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.200 flat area, deeper flat area. And then we were just 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.280 trying to activate jj on on a kind of a 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.160 second and ten. Thought we'd get a little bit more 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.720 on the first down play call um ended up kind 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.760 of you know, right, you know, checking the ball down 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.120 and getting right into that second and eleven second and 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.400 ten and try to activate something. And Slay made a 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.840 good play, you know, sat inside and made a good 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.560 play on the football. He's a really good player, had 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.640 a good night and and ultimately we've got to find 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.040 ways to make it easier, you know, on our guys 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.160 and and try to give them an advantage when they can. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.960 But didn't run the football enough. Um, you know, they 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.560 kind of had some things schematically that uh you know 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.880 got us into uh some different you know phases of 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.120 our offense by just trying to you know, get get 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.640 good plays off the versus some good looks. And that's 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.160 where I got to do a better job make sure 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.080 we stick to stay true to what we are and 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.040 what we want to be offensively. But yeah, those those 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.920 turnovers were they were tough, just where they just kind 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.560 of those momentum killers here and there and every single 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.040 one of them has their own story, and we'll make 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.760 sure that we coach them up and and put our 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.120 guys in better positions. The plan defensively, um, first half, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.639 I mean they obviously they come out and they're kind 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.960 of run them pretty good against you. Yeah, So what 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.600 was sort of the plan and what were the adjustments? Yeah, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.639 I think the plan you know, was to try to 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.960 you know account for obviously Jalen in the run game, 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:19.879 and they put a lot of pressure on you with 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.480 those RPOs and different variations. Sometimes they're reading to throw, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.920 sometimes they're reading to you know, pull and run, and 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.440 then they've got you know, layers to what they do 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.680 on those early downs. So those just kind of four 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.200 or five yard hits, uh, kind of put them in 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.119 manageable third downs and they were able to kind of 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:36.960 convert here and there. I think they were over fifty 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.680 percent for the night. But ultimately, when I look back 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.720 on it, there was some opts for us second and long, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.720 third and long where they were able to you know, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.440 he puts a lot of pressure on the defense with 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.960 how he can break, contain and you know make some 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.280 off schedule plays. I thought, you know, we were early, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.280 especially early on in the game. We were right there 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.439 a couple of plays I can remember where we were 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.119 right there and they just made the play. And that's 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:01.600 where I think you got to give them credit. We'll 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.320 obviously have to evaluate things we can do better coaching 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.520 staff wise and really me personally, to really put our 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.560 entire team in a better position, um to not only 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.320 get off to a faster start, but then be ready 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.320 to bow up and try to respond. Like we talked 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.359 a lot about doing, they get that first. They did 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.280 that fast start, that firstich having all tough, was trying 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.280 to get back in trying how much how much did 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.440 they get any game for at that point? Yeah, I 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.960 think you know, that's we're looking back on it. We 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.159 tried to be aggressive, use some tempo, and we were 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.560 able to move it um here and there once we 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.480 started to activate in some of that, but ultimately just 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.320 didn't finish past that. Uh you know that that touchdown 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.680 past the IRV. We just got kept getting down into 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.840 the high red and and and just be you know, 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.800 one play away from getting you know, being able to 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.600 activate some things down on the low red to try 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.159 to score. But that's where I give them credit. You know, 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.200 they were going to have a plan where you know, 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:57.640 they were going to try not to let us throw 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.000 it over their heads and uh, you know, keep everything 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.680