They prevailed in the 1,000th game in franchise history (including regular season and playoff games), which lasted four hours and one minute.
“Patrick Peterson, I’ll never forget it as long as I live,” O’Connell said. “I addressed the team before we went back out there. I overheard him walk over toward the offense, ‘We’re going to get stops, you just need five touchdowns. That’s nothing.’ It was a nice little moment for me to lead right in from.
“I said, ‘Pat, you’re exactly right.’ That’s what we needed at the time,” O’Connell added. “It was probably the most motivated I’ve been to challenge our players just so that they just knew, regardless of the outcome today, that first half was not good enough, and it will never be acceptable to have that kind of performance regardless of the outcome today. Nobody’s happier to be NFC North champions, the way we earned it. I think it will stick with a lot of us for a long time. There’s still a lot to go back and make sure that we rectify and continue to improve.”
If fans blinked in the second half, they missed key stop after stop by Minnesota’s defense and touchdown after touchdown by the offense.
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