Hockenson was one of Darnold’s 10 targets and one of nine with a catch. He, along with Oliver, Sherfield, Brandon Powell, Johnny Mundt, and Akers added 10-plus yards to Minnesota’s receiving total. Addison had 61 yards before exiting the game with cramps; Jefferson had 81 in another record-breaking game.<\/p>\n
Powell made the best catch of the game, stretching and pinning the football with one hand to his helmet on a low throw early in the fourth quarter. O’Connell challenged the ruling of an incompletion and won.<\/p>\n
“Everybody definitely had a little hand in this one,” Jefferson said, adding some perspective. “No defense is just going to give us anything. So every single play, every single drive, we’ve got to come and execute our plays. We don’t know who the ball is going to go to. It really doesn’t matter as long as we’re going out there and extending those drives and putting points on the board. That’s all that really matters.”<\/p>\n
As the Vikings close the door on their impeccable AFC South tour and prepare for next weekend’s NFC North matchup at Chicago, the always humble O’Connell is leaning into the mindset that’s worked so far.<\/p>\n
“The same way I’m old enough to remember when nobody thought we were very good,” O’Connell stated, bringing the belief in his team full circle, “the same way that I answered that question, I’ll answer it now: We’ve just got to continue to get better and improve [because] 8-2 means absolutely nothing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hockenson was one of Darnold’s 10 targets and one of nine with a catch. He, along with Oliver,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,8265,2780,36757,1025,1219,6,1878,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-187523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jordan-addison","10":"tag-justin-jefferson","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings-at-tennessee-titans-2024-reg-11","12":"tag-news-index","13":"tag-news-team","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sam-darnold","16":"tag-tennessee","17":"tag-tennessee-titans","18":"tag-tennesseetitans","19":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114810138407719405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}