Kevin O’Connell has no opponent to prepare for this week, but that doesn’t mean the Vikings’ first-year coach will be free from watching film or grinding through X’s and O’s. Only, in this case, O’Connell’s focus will be solely on his 5-1 team that has won its past four games by a closer-than-he-would-like average of 5.5 points.
The bye week presents an opportunity for a self-scout in which O’Connell and his coaching staff will dissect everything that has gone right and wrong in the first six weeks. Despite the Vikings’ record, there is plenty to fix and it will be O’Connell’s job to identify and fix as many of those issues as possible.
