“Look at all the different ways we’ve been able to win football games,” O’Neill said. “Hopefully we’ll have an even better argument for him in a month or two.”

Running back Aaron Jones called O’Connell a “psychic.”

“He has a knack for being able to draw plays, seeing things before it happens,” Jones said. “He’s part psychic if you ask me, because he’s been telling me things are going to happen since the day he picked up the phone and said he’d drive down and pick me up in Green Bay. Everything he’s said has been true to this point, and like I said I’m just happy to be playing for him.”

What has O’Connell envisioned that’s come true?

“Just how the season’s going to play out,” Jones said. “How nobody is going to believe in us and then everybody’s going to jump on. From how I’m going to be used in the offense to me just getting the ball in space, the weapons around here, the people in this building, just so many things he told me before I got here, and it’s been nothing but true.”

O’Connell has also been called a quarterback whisperer.