“The break was broken as a whole,” he said through the official page of the team. “I feel like the image front of setting the tone really and just as we can do and be accurate; but it all starts with the boys in front. They did a huge job today.
“It was really the highlight of everything,” McCarthy added. “I felt like we were running the ball very well.
O’Connell could understandly feel pressure to trot McCarthy back out of the game for Saturday’s game. The second -year team manager is actually a rookie in the game’s experience after playing only one game for the season last year before his season ended prematurely due to knee injury that required surgery.
But as O’Connell explained it on Thursday, he would rather see a positive signal from the practice range but demand that his team manager produce them in game setting. It’s all part of his career as a trainer who has – at least at this point – proved to be successful.
“We talk a lot about fast eyes, fast feet but perfect conviction when the ball understands our hands. It’s something that is a earned thing,” O’Connell said of what he emphasizes when he trained McCarthy. “Look, I am well aware of the eyes of a guy who may not get a lot of visual work for everyone, but I work under virtue with great confidence that if we train things and we have the right type of boys and we focus on the right things that come.”
Fans of Vikings will probably have to wait until week 1 of the usual period (against Bears On Monday night football) to see McCarthy tested by opposing defense in the game. Then O’Connell believes that his young branded master will be ready for a while.