Kevin O’Connell Talks About Kellen Mond’s Big Game, Team’s Overall Performance and More

Monday will make a good qb give him a year or two to work on his accuracy and awareness and I wouldn’t mind him taking over the offense

Yoi speak “da truth”

He’ll be even better on Tuesday! 😉

Mond had one okay showing against 3rd and 4th stringers throwing to wide open receivers and still missing badly sometimes. You people hype up young QBs to a ridiculous amount, when he still hasn’t showed enough to be considered even a halfway decent backup

@Not Surge I didn’t say qb1 prospect. But the development is worth it

Absolutely! Develop him, and as a bubble NFL starter-level QB, you can trade him off at a bit over his true value to a team that loses its #1 for the season. Then, you can get a not-quite as-good back-up to replace him, and the remainder of the trade assets you receive back you can use to help fill other holes in the lineup. THAT’S one way that winning teams continue to keep strong lineups even when getting relatively low draft choices for several consecutive years.

@Not Surge May I ask what your bona fides are to make a sweeping prediction like that after ONE lousy PS game with 2nd and 3rd string OL and receivers? At what level and how many years have you been coaching to add credibility to such a certain prediction? Should we all know and revere your name? (Personally I played foortball in HS 1960-1963 and I’ve only watch the Vikings since 1961, so I’ll bow to your superior experience, skill, and knowledge.)

Mond looked good but we need to settle down just a little as it started to take place when the Raiders put 2nd 3rd 4th stringers in.

Still I was expecting a loss because I thought the QB play would be terrible. We still lost but Mond played far better then I thought he would.

Mannion was of course Mannion.

Way to much costly penalties

They still need to learn more disciple but it’s the preseason this is the time they get to learn what they can do and cannot do hopefully they learn from this and clean it up before they get to the regular season

No offense to him but I feel as though mattison’s vision/explosiveness is questionable compared to the other backs on the team

@HighlightRoad I agree. I think KO will keep Cook much fresher and run him away from contact, and reduce his snap count. Even our O Line is better and he should have a much better time running behind Darrisaw, Ezra and Ingram.
I could easily see Cook having a 30% reduction in snaps and 20% increase in production.

@Rob E totally agree, especially with running cook away from pressure, we seen with zimmer cook was always ran right into truck walls in the middle, but with KO we have already seen a lot of outside runs in the preseason if we ran it, more productive runs because of it too

@HighlightRoad Cheers. Another thing that the Mattison for RB2 camp seem to forget is that OConnell won the SB despite his RB1 being out for the whole regular season. If he doesn’t need his RB1 to win the SB, why would he keep a slow RB2 as a back up?

Considering it’s AM last year with us we should probably use him as much as possible.

@NamelessViking I think the problem with the playoffs is it is a night game and I’m not sure what it is but the vikings are trash at night games which is bad because if we do make it to the superbowl it will always be a night game

@Jarrad Bruessel I believe every team plays their starters every game in the playoffs. 😂

@NamelessViking lmfao my bad damn auto correct

@Jesse Montgomery damn autocorrect

@Daniel Trevino damn auto correct

10 yards per carry!!

I feel pretty good about my Chandler, Ingram and Dantzler predictions right now! I haven’t heard any chatter, but Vederian Lowe was extremely solid at LT in the 4th quarter too. I would not be surprised to see him move up to the 2nds, and Udoh drop to the 3rds next week.

@Rob E You gotta remind me what your specific predictions were! Dantzler will be CB1, Ingram start at RG by the bye (although after tonight i’m thinking that timeline could be moved up to Game 1), and Chandler will make the 53?

@EB0203 Close enough. I thought Dantzler would easily beat out Booth (and be CB1/2 with P2).
Ingram would start as soon as he was ready (the bye at latest) and could end up being the best OG in the draft. I also predicted he would make some pancake tackles today (✅) and that Ty Chandler could be RB2 by week 1 (and might get 100 yards today (✅).
I was suggesting months ago that we should try trading Mattison (for anything), because he was just taking opportunities away from Kene and Ty. Today we saw that they can easily share the load with Cook. I’d suggest Koback will be a fine emergency back up for the practice squad.
We saw AJ Rose make some nice plays for the Rams after the Vikes waived him. Imo – Mattison is the 4th best RB on our roster, and I’m hoping we use that roster spot to keep an extra WR like Trishton or Wilson on the 53. Especially with the move towards a passing offence.

Our new FO have no allegiance to Mattison, or Bisi, or Boyd, or Oli. I think some Vikes fans are still thinking like the old regime.

Why would Kwesi draft Chandler if he was happy with Mattison and Kene?
Why would he draft Vederian Lowe if he was happy with Brandel and Oli?

Kwesi has told us all along that he makes intentional decisions, and has specific ideas about value. We have seen it play out in every move. Bargaining down P2 and Pierce. He is doing it right now with Suh. I bet if Suh would accept $4m he’d be signed tomorrow. It sounds like Suh is expecting $8-9, and whereas Kwesi compares that value to Phillips at $6m, and Watts at $1m – and probably see’s Suh somewhere in between them.
Skol!

SKOL!!

Seriously.. glad that oconnell showed he can call plays.. and defense looked good at times.. and running backs chandler and nwongu showed big flashes!

Garrett Bradbury started 45 of the 45 games he was eligible for in his first three seasons, and also was in on nearly 100% of the offensive plays! That would not have happened if he was not good. Also people take for granted how important he is to the running game! It might be true that he is lacking some pass blocking technique, but we need to give him a chance under the new regime. Also, even the idiot media admits there are very few outstanding centers available in the NFL right now. Let’s be winners and be smart with our comments. I tell you what Y O U are not better than Bradbury. (Let’s not forget that he has already caught two passes, including one for a first down!)

That’s awesome being a 60 year fan! I myself am a 68 year old man who has been a fan since their first game in 1961! Even though I was born and raised in Michigan I’ve been hooked on the Vikings and have been win, lose, or tie! My 42 year old son is just as much a fan as I am.

Kirky will say he needs his secondary coach!👍🤣

@Hue Yang than just make Mannion a assistant qb coach for kirk so we can have an actual back up instead of going oh well I guess we just lose until kirk gets back

Experience is valuable. Fans jump on the players of the past way to quickly.

@Jed Clampett Mannion had 67/110 passing total in 6 years. His highest QBR over the las t 5 years is 33.5. That means 99.9% of his experience was holding the clip board. Tell me how valuable that was.

I’ll nu

I don’t think Mannion looked lost, he just can’t make the throws. He does not even look like he is in shape. He is KOC 2.0, IMO.

The knock on Mond is that he has been scary slow in his progressions during practice, but it didn’t look that way today. Granted everything was base defensive looks. But he’s accurate and displayed a nice touch.

If they keep 3 QBs I don’t understand why they would keep Mannion, he cannot physically handle the position.

If you’re a long time fan of the team, maybe you remember Tarkenton and his famous scrambles. Mond was very very similar because unlike most modern QBs like Jackson, even RGIII, cam, etc, he scrambled and looked for an open receiver instead of just trying to run for yards. I haven’t seen that since Tark retired, and I thought it was GREAT!

Yes, that’s a problem (that fans would be going wild after one completion by a rookie QB in a meanless exhibition game!).

Good point. Mike really really held him back, he’s still a rookie in my books

@Jed Clampett Yeah bc it’s a highlight of what the future could be. It would be a wild moment to see any first round QB do good.

That is probably true, but it’s early yet.

He trotted on the field for his fist extended play after a stolen year last year. I attribute those first few stumbles to first time jitters. He certainly calmed down as time want on.