There was frustration on the face of everybody in the locker room on Sunday afternoon at U.S. Bank Stadium as the Vikings tried to explain all the mistakes they made in their 27-19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

The recurring theme? The pre-snap penalties.

The Vikings were whistled for a whopping eight false starts against the Ravens, which made it extremely hard for the offense to move the chains. That was enough to make head coach Kevin O’Connell want to pull his hair out as he tried to make sense of it after the game.

“Whatever was going on was not acceptable,” he said. “We’ve got to get it fixed, and we will.”

The culprits included left tackle Christian Darrisaw, center Blake Brandel and right tackle Brian O’Neill on the offensive line, plus quarterback J.J. McCarthy, receiver Justi

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