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

Glad you asked.

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

comparatively speaking to previous years.

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 a lot of that

principle-wise falls into how you handle a situation like this and being a great teammate.

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

that can help us win games regardless of circumstance.

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 even before the sequence of bringing in Frank, really feeling great about Keith, being the engine in that room from a technique and fundamental standpoint.

We ran the ball a lot last year, and we were efficient, and we really kind of specifically leaned on it in some games to control the clock, control field position, allow our defense to play well and

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.

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