Kevin O'Connell

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917 appearances 23 recordings 10 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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Minnesota Vikings · Saturdays With Sauce: LIVE From Vikings Training Camp! · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

The quarterback situation in the competition, it's not often that teams will have this.

I'm just curious what you view the role of the players in the locker room in this is.

Human nature can be that there might be a personal favorite here and there.

What do you rely on to manage that to assume that it's not something that affects the entire team?

I think there's a couple things to it.

I think we want to have a competitive camp, even though we're going to be, and rightly so, talking about the quarterback position a lot, as we should be.

There's other competitions, maybe even amongst guys that are considered starters of, hey, we want this particular grouping on defense to be a feature, or we want to be able to build some more things out of that, or offensively, how our run game looks, what we can thrive at, and really hang our hat on maybe in comparative ways

So a lot of my messaging, Kevin, to the team is the big picture and what we're trying to build.

We want to build one of the tightest, close-knit groups we've ever had here.

And that's saying something for you guys that have been around here because the culture of this building is fantastic.

And as we continue to add new players, either in free agency or the draft, with a big draft class like we did, we want to make sure we're never taking that for granted.

And ultimately, we want those guys to have conviction about their confidence in the player and not just the guy, as we've learned over a couple years here, not just the guy who gets named the starter, but we need multiple guys ready to play at a level

And that's, I know, how talking to a lot of our leadership and beyond, that's how they feel, and they've got total belief in it.

And these guys, because they're seeing the way they work and the way they're preparing and the way they're going about this the right way, which was the intent.

Yeah, I think it goes back to

and put them in a position to have some moments in the game where they can impact with play style and scheme.

And we were able to win our last five really kind of leaning into that.

And like I tell our players all the time, that was a critical sequence in time.

Maybe not for the immediate result, but to know that it's in our toolbox.

uh... as a football team and it's really it's it's a great way to play complimentary football months of three phases in the kicking game plays a role in that too but in regards to this year and kind of the thought process uh... it really has been about you know what does it look like what does it look like when we call some of these plays uh... when you stand right at that line of scrimmage and no matter what the concept is uh... are we are we playing on the opponent's side coming off the ball and and getting into combinations

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