EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — After the Minnesota Vikings were narrowly defeated by the thriving Detroit Lions, coach Kevin O’Connell invented an only-in-football noun to assess his team’s not-quite-complete-enough performance. “It’s just these little self-inflicteds,” O’Connell said, highlighting the pre-snap penalties and handful of other seemingly minor mistakes that added up to the 31-29 loss to… Continue reading Vikings lost a close game to the Lions in the margins. They’ll need a cleanup to keep contending