Purple Rumor Mill: Brian Flores’ Subsequent Staff, Shannon Sharpe’s QB Take for Vikings, an MVP Candidate

Minnesota Vikings Defensive Coordinator Brian Flores addressed the media from the TCO Efficiency Middle. Flores was employed in February 2023 to take over for Ed Donatel after Minnesota completed thirtieth in factors allowed.

VikingsTerritory’s Purple Rumor Mill is a two-day chronicle every week. All of the week’s Vikings rumors are lassoed and plopped in two spots — articles on Saturday and Sunday — for overview. As we speak is the December 14th version.

Purple Rumor Mill: Brian Flores’ Subsequent Staff, Shannon Sharpe’s QB Take for Vikings, an MVP Candidate

Bear in mind — rumors are rumors. What you learn on weekends in these items is what the world is speaking about pertaining to the purple group, not essentially objects that may come to fruition.

Right here’s the primary batch of the week. All previous rumors may be learn right here.

Rumor: Brian Flores could be on faucet to teach … the Chicago Bears.

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Flores landed on a shortlist this week of recent skippers for the Vikings’ rival, the Bears.

Bears podcaster and writer Dan McNeil tweeted Monday, sooner or later after the Bears’ report fell to a awful 4-8 mark: “Sources confirm these FOUR coaches are on the Bears’ list for HC: Ben Johnson, Brian Flores, Joe Brady, Mike Vrabel. They may want to talk to more candidates, but they’re targeting these four. More as soon as I get it.”

Chicago just lately fired earlier head coach Matt Eberflus after just a few years of futility and a ginormous, nationally seen clock administration blunder on Thanksgiving day. The Bears obtained a bounce on the top teaching search, so lists, as McNeil talked about, are honest play.

This rumor is legitimate.

Rumor: There is no such thing as a probability for Sam Darnold to return with the Vikings in 2024, based on Corridor of Famer Shannon Sharpe.

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Sharpe is in every single place nowadays with scorching takes, and the Vikings weren’t immune this week. He weighed in on the blossoming Sam Darnold vs. J.J. McCarthy debate.

“You just invested a top-ten pick in J.J. McCarthy. There’s no guarantee. Quarterback is the only position that they’ll pay you based on potential or if you have one good year. Every other position you got to put multiple years together in order to get paid. Ja’Marr Chase put together three, four years, they won’t pay him,” Sharpe mentioned Monday on ESPN’s First Take.

Darnold has completely reclaimed his profession in Minnesota. He’s on tempo for 4,300 passing yards, 38 touchdowns, and 13 picks. These are MVP numbers, and Darnold could be within the race if Buffalo Payments signal-caller Josh Allen didn’t have the trophy all however wrapped up.

“Sam Darnold, now he’s bounced around. I get it he’s played unbelievable. I didn’t think he had this in him, but he does have Jordan Addison. He has Hockenson. He has JJettas. He has Aaron Jones. And he’s backed it up playing well. And he’s going to make a boatload of money somewhere else. I hope they bring those guys with him when he goes, but with that being said, absolutely not,” Sharpe added about the potential for the Vikings preserving Darnold at QB1 in 2025.

“You drafted J.J. McCarthy for a reason. If J.J. McCarthy hadn’t got hurt, Sam Darnold wouldn’t even see the field, so absolutely not.”

It might not be this open and shut, however Sharpe might be nearer to proper than he’s incorrect.

Rumor: Sam Darnold is an MVP candidate, says former Vikings LB Ben Leber.

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Ben Leber is in on Darnold as an MVP candidate.

Leber tweeted Sunday, “Sam Darnold is leading an 11-2 team with an average passer rating of 107.3. Time to put Sam in the MVP convo.”

Darnold is on tempo for 4,300 passing yards, 38 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions in 2024, contemporary off his group’s resounding 42-21 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, a membership led by Kirk Cousins, who quarterbacked the Vikings for six seasons.

The award is near a wrap for Josh Allen, nevertheless it’s candy that Darnold is in the identical dialog.

Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options visitors, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL. 

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