+34Kevin O'Connell won widespread praise for his kind words.
quarterback Anthony Richardson after the Vikings' 21–13 win Sunday. The coach, once a backup quarterback himself, won praise for his class."Whether it meant something to him, or not, didn't matter. And I think it's a good thing for everybody in society to do.
If you've got the ability to help somebody else in circumstances that maybe as they're working through it are less than ideal, but there is a road and a path—a rather large one in my opinion to him having have a very, very successful NFL career—," O'Connell said. Richardson was benched after completing just 10 of his 32 pass attempts on Oct. 27 in a 23–20 loss to the "I'm just a big fan, and if you have something to say to uplift somebody else, you might as well say it and not keep it to yourself," O'Connell said.Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .
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