Dan Campbell acknowledges the challenge of facing Kevin O'Connell's Vikings, praising their offensive scheme and quarterback Sam Darnold's performance.
Dan Campbell 's Lions have gotten the better of Kevin O'Connell's Vikings in the last four meetings between the NFC North powers. It's the longest Lions win streak in the series since rattling off five consecutive wins between Nov. 1961 and Oct. 1963, the first five games ever played between the two teams. As he prepares his side to host the Vikings in the biggest game of the 2024 NFL regular season, Campbell understands the difficulty of the task at hand.
“Yeah, listen, he’s an excellent coach,' Campbell said of O'Connell at his Wednesday press conference. 'I mean, you look at what he’s done, now, going on three years, their offensive scheme is, they do a great job, man. Very creative and they understand how to find weaknesses and pick at them, get the most out of their players, put their players in position to have success.'Despite Vegas projecting a 6.5-win total for the Vikings coming into the season, O'Connell has masterminded a 14-2 season with a chance to claim the No. 1 seed in the NFC. The third-year Vikings head coach has gotten a career year out of journeyman QB Sam Darnold, who has used the full compliment of his offensive weapons. 'When you have a player like , it’s, ‘Well, you’ve got Jefferson.’ But it’s not always that easy because everybody’s trying to, you’re trying to double him, you’re trying to do your best to take him away, and for them, he’s your best player, so you still have to find ways to get him involved and get him in the game so that he helps you, and they do a really good job of that. They move him around, Jefferson’s smart as well as everything else, he can handle all that,' Campbell said. 'And so, that’s just a couple things they do. I like what they do in the run game as well.' O'Connell has bounced back from a 7-10 season in 2023 when he was forced to rotate quarterbacks after Kirk Cousins' season-ending Achilles injur
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