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The Minnesota Vikings’ will play their subsequent common season recreation in 7.5 months, so the membership has ample time to arrange for head coach Kevin O’Connell’s fourth act.
Minnesota completed 2024 with a 14-3 file, that includes a disappointing Spherical 1 playoff flop.
Vikings Offseason: The Prime 3 Vikings Developments from 2nd Week
Free company is about six weeks away, the draft is 13 weeks across the bend, and the membership’s schedule will likely be launched in Could.
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And to maintain observe, these have been the highest three developments of offseason week No. 2 ranked in ascending order (No. 1 = most necessary).
3. 3 Vikings Nominated for Awards
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The NFL nominated these gamers for year-end awards this week:
Kevin O’Connell (Coach of the Yr)
Sam Darnold (Comeback Participant of the Yr)
Brian Flores (Assistant Coach of the Yr)
Then, O’Connell received a separate award from Professional Soccer Writers of America — Coach of the Yr. Darnold additionally received Comeback Participant of the Yr from the identical group.
The total NFL award slate will likely be introduced in two weeks.
2. Brian Flores Prone to Return for Yr No. 3
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Flores interviewed for head teaching gigs with the Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, and New York Jets this offseason. All three groups employed another person.
The New Orleans Saints are additionally in search of a brand new skipper, though Flores has not interviewed for that place. Flores turned the Vikings’ protection round reasonably rapidly, and actually, his group ranked second within the NFL this season per EPA/Play. He’s earned HC consideration accordingly. Followers will likely be excited to have him again if he strikes out this cycle.
And all indicators level to Flores ready one other yr earlier than touchdown a head teaching job.
1. Kevin O’Connell Locked Down through Extension
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ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted Tuesday, “More years in Minnesota: Vikings and head coach Kevin O’Connell have reached an agreement on a multi-year contract extension, per sources. He was scheduled to be entering the last year of his contract, but no longer. Now that their head coach extension is done, the Vikings also working an extension for their GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah.”
O’Connell is now hooked up to the Vikings for a number of years — in all probability by means of the top of 2028 or 2029.
Between O’Connell and Adofo-Mensah, the pair has produced the NFL’s sixth-best win proportion since accepting the highest jobs in 2022. The tandem took over for basic supervisor Rick Spielman and head coach Mike Zimmer after the 2021 season.
It’s a completed deal; O’Connell isn’t going anyplace.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings 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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