How did Minnesota's coaching staff approach the bye week?

When any football team enters a bye week, the coaching staff will spend time evaluating personnel and schemes. For many coaches, this involves studying future opponents, or simply focusing on specific weaknesses. Last week, head coach P.J. Fleck and his staff took a different approach.

They spent time game planning against each other.

Instead of studying another team, they spent time looking at their own tendencies and players. The coaches took an entire day to analyze every player, personnel grouping, formation and tendency.

“I remember, I told our staff, and they’re sitting they’re going, ‘you want us to game plan – shouldn’t we be doing something else?’ I’m like, listen, we’re going to game…