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Lane Kiffin Gaining Steam As Vikings Head Coach Candidate
Uh oh! The Minnesota Vikings are looking at a college coach. We'll start, however, with some chat about the GM candidates the Vikings have requested interviews for so far. As of this recording, the Vikings have requested interviews from Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, Eliot Wolf & Glen Cook. Since this recording, the Vikings have requested interviews from Brandon Brown, Ryan Poles, John Spytek & Catherine Raiche that we know of. We'll catch up on that tomorrow.
On the head coaching front, the Vikings have been linked to Lane Kiffin by multiple reports.

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Doug Pederson

No retreads please.


Kellen Moore.

Like this idea quite a bit.


Eric Bienemy

Former Vikes assistant, But color me tainted by previous Andy Reid tree Head coach that came here. and how much success was Mahomes improvising? I will point out that after a bad start this year the Chiefs offense turned it around after Mahomes started being forced to play with more patience. How much of that was Bienemy?

Leftwich

Benefitted from having a great coach/player on the field in Tom Brady. But I woudn't be opposed here.

Dabol

He has a great QB to work with and a lot of other talented players as well. But I am intrigued here as well. we have a QB great at amassing numbers but wilting when it matters most, but a lot of great skill players..

Anyone from the Belichik tree
Thusfar, From what I can remember there have been Five guys from Belichik's staff that went on to be Head Coaches somewhere else in the NFL. Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennell, Josh McDaniels, Eric Mangini and Joe Judge. None of them panned out so I would prefer to avoid any coach on Bill's current staff.


I am trying to keep an open mind so anyone they hire not named Steckel, Childress, Tice, Frazier Kubiak or Zimmer I will try not to be unhappy and hope for the best.

I don't think Pederson is a retread....I think he had conflicts with the GM and just two years after the mess that Chip Kelly built won the Super Bowl.

i agree...pederson is not a burnout that lost it...he did an incredible job with a 2nd string QB...he broke the vaunted zimmer 'double-A gap blitz' attack....

the problem with many of the others is they haven't been tested at the highest level of coaching - NFL head coach...what if they can't handle it?...they might suck at game management, too....

Pretty aggressive when it comes to offense and 4th down decisions. Hopefully not dumb decisions like Zac Taylor and Brandon Staley.

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

Hence the 'collaboration' piece from Mark Wilf.

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Lane Kiffin Gaining Steam As Vikings Head Coach Candidate
Uh oh! The Minnesota Vikings are looking at a college coach. We'll start, however, with some chat about the GM candidates the Vikings have requested interviews for so far. As of this recording, the Vikings have requested interviews from Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, Eliot Wolf & Glen Cook. Since this recording, the Vikings have requested interviews from Brandon Brown, Ryan Poles, John Spytek & Catherine Raiche that we know of. We'll catch up on that tomorrow.
On the head coaching front, the Vikings have been linked to Lane Kiffin by multiple reports.

So they've implemented what, a Patricia Rooney rule now?

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

Hence the 'collaboration' piece from Mark Wilf.

Exactamundo.

Just listened to a Thielen podcast ... said the Wilfs got together with the players leadership group on the team and grilled them for their thoughts for what worked and didn't work. And assured them that a collaborative style was key in their candidate search ... Thielen didn't call out anybody by name but gave the example of someone who thought they knew everything about everything and had to have everything done their way - as the example of what didn't work.

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

Hence the 'collaboration' piece from Mark Wilf.

Exactamundo.

Just listened to a Thielen podcast ... said the Wilfs got together with the players leadership group on the team and grilled them for their thoughts for what worked and didn't work. And assured them that a collaborative style was key in their candidate search ... Thielen didn't call out anybody by name but gave the example of someone who thought they knew everything about everything and had to have everything done their way - as the example of what didn't work.

I'm surprised it took that long to recognize that the GM & Coach aren't communicating and the players input was also being ignored. Seems like the team was a lot more dysfunctional than I realized.

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

Hence the 'collaboration' piece from Mark Wilf.

Exactamundo.

Just listened to a Thielen podcast ... said the Wilfs got together with the players leadership group on the team and grilled them for their thoughts for what worked and didn't work. And assured them that a collaborative style was key in their candidate search ... Thielen didn't call out anybody by name but gave the example of someone who thought they knew everything about everything and had to have everything done their way - as the example of what didn't work.

I'm surprised it took that long to recognize that the GM & Coach aren't communicating and the players input was also being ignored. Seems like the team was a lot more dysfunctional than I realized.

This bullshit is on the owners. Hells bells is there any accountability? They extended Zimmer. Based on what. The Wilfs should take a hard look in the mirror.

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Phil Mackey 🎙@PhilMackey
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On today’s @barstoolsports

Pro Football Show, Deion Sanders said he spoke with his friend Mike Zimmer.

Said Zimmer & Spielman “hadn’t talked in months… and it was a downward spiral.” He also cited “QB play” as a reason for Zim’s demise

Hence the 'collaboration' piece from Mark Wilf.

Exactamundo.

Just listened to a Thielen podcast ... said the Wilfs got together with the players leadership group on the team and grilled them for their thoughts for what worked and didn't work. And assured them that a collaborative style was key in their candidate search ... Thielen didn't call out anybody by name but gave the example of someone who thought they knew everything about everything and had to have everything done their way - as the example of what didn't work.

I'm surprised it took that long to recognize that the GM & Coach aren't communicating and the players input was also being ignored. Seems like the team was a lot more dysfunctional than I realized.

This bullshit is on the owners. Hells bells is there any accountability? They extended Zimmer. Based on what. The Wilfs should take a hard look in the mirror.

Either that, or they were being completely snowed. For example, if they completely trusted Spielman and only talked to him to get updates on how things were going, but he in turn was lying about that (telling the Wilf's that everything is going fine, etc), then it could explain what happened. Earlier indications that they considered elevating him to some kind of VP position, but ended up firing him instead seems to make this angle more plausible. That doesn't mean that Zimmer wasn't also part of the problem as well - for example, if the Wilf's were asking for his assessment, but he was also saying Yeah, everything is fine, just to avoid the discussion, then it might seem to the owners that the GM and coach were all on the same page, when they weren't at all. This might be a case of the the Wilf's being too trusting of their GM and coach.

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I feel like the Wilfs are going to want to snag a pre existing tandem. Before the Dallas guy pulled out I thought he and Moore were a possibility.

Not sure how many pairs are left but I'm feeling a McDaniels Wolf pairing.

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I feel like the Wilfs are going to want to snag a pre existing tandem. Before the Dallas guy pulled out I thought he and Moore were a possibility.

Not sure how many pairs are left but I'm feeling a McDaniels Wolf pairing.

Looks like we might get to put that together soon.

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I want to read more about Zimmer's poor me presentation that he put together for the team about all the bad things that happened to him.