EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — After the Minnesota Vikings were narrowly defeated by the thriving Detroit Lions, coach Kevin O’Connell invented an only-in-football noun to assess his team’s not-quite-complete-enough performance.
“It’s just these little self-inflicteds,” O’Connell said, highlighting the pre-snap penalties and handful of other seemingly minor mistakes that added up to the 31-29 loss to the Lions on Sunday. “I’ve got to get that stuff fixed. When you’re trying to win at the level we’re trying to win at against anybody we play, we can’t do anything to help give football teams an out.”
Falling into a first-place tie in the stacked NFC North with the Lions at 5-1, following a two-point defeat that was remarkably even statistically, the Vikings showed nothing to suggest they’re not built to last in the division race and beyond.
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