Sports The Minnesota Vikings are undefeated up to now this season — and undefeated in world games in franchise historical previous.
Don’t whisper coach Kevin O’Connell, although.
“A huge selection of contributors like taken snarl of the originate that we’re off to,” he said. “As I whisper our guys every single time I to find to stand in front of them, which implies that absolutely nothing.”
The Vikings (4-0) arrived in London on Friday and must try to toughen on their ideal epic as soon as they face Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets (2-2) on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
“Now we like got to promenade out for four quarters this week and re-set aside ourselves — our identity, our play style, our football philosophy — or not it is got to be re-established on per week-in week-out basis,” O’Connell said. “That is the means you get repeatedly in this league.”
The team has had “a chip on our shoulder since the very starting of the season,” he added.
The Vikings are 3-0 within the neatly-liked-season games they’ve performed in a international country — all in London.
As planned, two-time Pro Bowl tight pause T.J. Hockenson returned Friday after the team opened his put collectively window. He tore his ACL and MCL in his appropriate knee closing Dec. 24 within the Vikings’ Week 16 sport closing season.
“It turned into as soon as gargantuan, truthfully, to see him in that helmet, to see him working round, to more or less be with the team, or not it is gargantuan,” essential particular person receiver Justin Jefferson said. “To notice him chuffed obtainable working routes and being with the team but again, I cannot wait till he is fully assist obtainable with us. That is one more dynamic force that we’re going to add to our offense.”
Hockenson, who started the season on the bodily unable to fabricate record, can like 21 days to proceed ramping up forward of the Vikings must add him to the energetic roster. He turned into as soon as shrimp in put collectively and formally dominated out for Sunday’s sport.
O’Connell said Hockenson “looked definitely appropriate.”
Blazin’ 5: Vikings (-2.5) prevail, Saints (+5.5) duvet, Steelers (-3) get in Week 5 Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold says revenge just isn’t very on his thoughts when he faces his feeble squad.
“I’d not verbalize so, being ideally suited a long way a long way from the Jets organization,” he said of the team that drafted him third overall in 2018.
He’ll perchance verbalize hi there to some extinct teammates — defensive lineman Quinnen Williams, linebacker C.J. Mosley, safety Ashtyn Davis and long snapper Thomas Hennessy are the finest players remaining from Darnold’s closing Jets team in 2020 — and a few of New York’s backroom group.
“Varied than that, for me, or not it is appropriate a extremely appropriate different to play solid football,” he said.
Besides, Darnold has beaten the Jets forward of. In the 2021 season opener, after being traded within the offseason to Carolina, he led the Panthers to a 19-14 victory over the Jets.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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