The Vikings, as of Sunday morning, were 3-2. They’re now 3-4.

And the loss to the Chargers was the low point of the season, a 37-10 blowout loss.

After the game, coach Kevin O’Connell was candid.

“We got outplayed,” O’Connell said. “We got outcoached. We did not — there are no excuses. Injuries, short week, whatever it is, that is not in any way, shape, or form our standard of what we want to put on the field, and we’ve got — as I told our team — we’ve got an opportunity in front of us where we need to own this. This is not a bury the tape kind of time for our organization. This is a ‘watch it, view it, own it’. Every coach, every player. And it starts with me. I did not have our team prepared to play.”

Can it change?

“I believe in our players, wholeheartedly,” O’Connell said. “I beli

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