Kevin O’Connell’s Locker Room Speech After Minnesota Vikings Win Over New York Giants

Kevin O’Connell’s Locker Room Speech After Minnesota Vikings Win Over New York Giants

First and foremost, all right, I know the last 24 plus hours has not been ideal, but you know what it felt like the entire time. All right, it never felt like anybody was saying woe is me. That felt like nobody was ever saying, “Hey, you know, this sucks with blah blah blah.” Felt like you guys just enjoyed being around each other a little bit longer than normal on that airplane. >> All right, so don’t ever discount first and foremost what you guys have built here. All right. It is as real as it gets. All right. And at the point in time in a season where we got the opportunity to just rally the troops, keep our head down and work every day, you gentlemen have now won three straight football games in the National Football League. Right. Tough day out there to kick. Tough day out there to kick. But he’s going to get another game ball. Give it up for Will the Thriller again. This guy right here is a warrior. All right, we lost JP early. This guy had to just go in there and it was a pounded ground ground and pound kind of game there. All right, whatever it was going to take to support our defense to win that game is what we were going to do in that second half. You couldn’t be more of an example of what it means to be a great player but unbelievable leader. I love you to death, Aaron. Speaking of leadership, this guy’s delayed it week, displayed it week in and week out at a world class level just like he is. A world class receiver in this league, right? The best in the world at what he does. All he does is work. All he’s done this year is lead. Set a standard so high we are all going to be following it as we chase what’s out in front of us. But Justin Jefferson was six for 85 today. now has more catches uh than any player in NFL history through his first six seasons. Unbelievable. >> All right, this last one’s an easy one. All right, I can go guy by guy. I can say I can say to you guys that Murf had two tackles, an interception in a pass defense. All right, I could talk about some other guys. I could talk about each individual one of the five sacks, but this feels like to me a TEAM DEFENSIVE GAME BALL. ALL YOU GUYS get unbelievable, the guy that’s going to accept this game ball for the defense. Let me see that C on your chest, man. Yeah, baby. >> Our leadership has been unique and and by far some of the most impactful people I’ve ever been around. All you guys, man, that have led us through this stretch. We got two more. They happen to be in our division. They happen to be at home. We’re going TO PUT EVERYTHING WE have into winning one game on Thursday. All right. And then guess what? Then we’ll worry about the next one THEN JUST LIKE WE’VE BEEN DOING and we are going to remember these moments and what it is building within us all for the future of this organization. Do not forget that. All right. But I need CJ Ham and Blake Cashman come in here. Come in the middle right here. Everybody gather around. They’re going to break us down. It’s not just that they are captains. All right. It’s that Josh Mattelis, Jonathan Gennard, you guys couldn’t wait to make him one. >> All right. This organization is unique. Feel it, fellas. feel what it means to be a Viking. The brotherhood that you guys have built. Break us down, man. Congrats. >> Hey, I love y’all to death, man. Family on three. One, two, three.

Watch Minnesota Vikings Head Coach Kevin O’Connell’s locker room speech to the team following the 16-13 victory over the New York Giants during Week 16 of the 2025 NFL regular season at MetLife Stadium.

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