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i don't get pederson falling off a cliff...he brings everything that Harbaugh does without the wacky crazy energy shit....

nobody is interviewing pederson....

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Interesting they had O'Connell tagged so quickly. Almost like that is who they wanted but they took the Harbaugh interview just incase it was a last second homerun.

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Interesting they had O'Connell tagged so quickly. Almost like that is who they wanted but they took the Harbaugh interview just incase it was a last second homerun.

The Vikings interviewed 8 candidates before hiring Adofo-Mensah as GM. He added Harbaugh and Graham to that list after he was hired and led the preliminary interviews with them. He then led the second interviews with 4 finalists. There was nothing quick about it.

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I am a little bummed about Harbaugh, but I am good with O'Connell. now let's see who he brings in on his staff.

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I am a little bummed about Harbaugh, but I am good with O'Connell. now let's see who he brings in on his staff.

KAM/KOC need to hit a HR on the Coordinators. Get some experience in the building. McVay and Taylor both went with experienced DCs.

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Yes, I said Jerry Gray, and it would have the double effect of weakening the Packers.

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Interesting they had O'Connell tagged so quickly. Almost like that is who they wanted but they took the Harbaugh interview just incase it was a last second homerun.

The Vikings interviewed 8 candidates before hiring Adofo-Mensah as GM. He added Harbaugh and Graham to that list after he was hired and led the preliminary interviews with them. He then led the second interviews with 4 finalists. There was nothing quick about it.

By 6:30pm last night Fox Sports radio was reporting O'Connell was the next HC. That was minutes after Harbaugh left the building.

The timeline wasn't quick but the ending was. I doubt they called O'Connell at 6:20pm and said "been a while but would you like to be our headcoach?". My guess is they had told O'Connell, "we want to interview Harbaugh but chances are you are our guy."

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Well Phil, I mentioned Jerry Gray on this thread, and weakening the Packers is a good thing.

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Interesting they had O'Connell tagged so quickly. Almost like that is who they wanted but they took the Harbaugh interview just incase it was a last second homerun.

The Vikings interviewed 8 candidates before hiring Adofo-Mensah as GM. He added Harbaugh and Graham to that list after he was hired and led the preliminary interviews with them. He then led the second interviews with 4 finalists. There was nothing quick about it.

By 6:30pm last night Fox Sports radio was reporting O'Connell was the next HC. That was minutes after Harbaugh left the building.

The timeline wasn't quick but the ending was. I doubt they called O'Connell at 6:20pm and said "been a while but would you like to be our headcoach?". My guess is they had told O'Connell, "we want to interview Harbaugh but chances are you are our guy."

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ORIGINAL: ronhextall

Interesting they had O'Connell tagged so quickly. Almost like that is who they wanted but they took the Harbaugh interview just incase it was a last second homerun.

The Vikings interviewed 8 candidates before hiring Adofo-Mensah as GM. He added Harbaugh and Graham to that list after he was hired and led the preliminary interviews with them. He then led the second interviews with 4 finalists. There was nothing quick about it.

By 6:30pm last night Fox Sports radio was reporting O'Connell was the next HC. That was minutes after Harbaugh left the building.

The timeline wasn't quick but the ending was. I doubt they called O'Connell at 6:20pm and said "been a while but would you like to be our headcoach?". My guess is they had told O'Connell, "we want to interview Harbaugh but chances are you are our guy."

My guess is that they identified O'Connell as the man to beat heading into the Harbaugh interview. As soon as they new Harbaugh wasn't going beat him, they offered O'Connell the job. Something tells me that if they had already told O'Connell that the Harbaugh interview was a formality, it would have been leaked. I don't think they would have taken Harbaugh away from signing day if they weren't seriously considering him.

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JJ should be happy with this hire.

KOC designs all the plays that the Rams run. Kupp keeps getting open with all the extra attention he receives.

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JJ should be happy with this hire.

KOC designs all the plays that the Rams run. Kupp keeps getting open with all the extra attention he receives.

JJ was always open this year too. We need KOC to force Cousins to throw to him more...

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Vikings screwed up Royally if they didn't make Harbaugh a good offer.

Knee jerk reaction.

Harbaugh would have been pretty exciting based on his previous NFL experience and the circus that comes with him ...

but there's no guarantee with him or O'Connel or anybody else.

Who knows what happened ... we may or may not get the full story ...

I'd like to hear the GM and ownership stuck to their vision of a new direction instead of caving in to a high profile candidate's demands.

All reports were that Harbaugh wanted to come here and Harbaugh was Kwesi's guy. Already undermining the new GM his first week on the job.

All the hearsay and rumor mongering from sports media people that was tweeted ... not all the factual reports from the participants ...

You have no clue. Nobody does.

Most likely, the decision was made by consensus ... if you've been paying attention to what the owners / GM have been saying about the process.

The only one undermining the GM is you with your cockeyed interpretation.

Why do you have to be insulting Tom. I'm going by the best information I got. Funny thing about consensus. It used to be called the triangle of authority and everybody thought it was a bad thing. Now we've circled back to it.

You're right ... I should have more patience ... but your opinions often rankle me – I'm sure it works both ways.

For instance, your current positions are even more chafing than usual ... one, that not hiring Harbaugh was some kind of first-strike corporate betrayal of the new GM and, two, that 'consensus' is a bad word because of something that happened during the Childress era.

I apologize for my bad manners.

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Just shared with us, “one big pro for new Vikings Head Coach Kevin O’Connell is that he’s too young to have kids old enough to hire for his staff”

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JJ should be happy with this hire.

KOC designs all the plays that the Rams run. Kupp keeps getting open with all the extra attention he receives.

JJ was always open this year too. We need KOC to force Cousins to throw to him more...

EXACTLY! We could have the second coming of the greatest show on turf in the playbook. If your qb can’t pull the trigger, it’s a futile effort.

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ORIGINAL: Brad H

I tried to tell you folks that the Harbaugh thing was a big mirage. Harbaugh was looking to get paid, plain and simple. I'm willing to bet they are working on a new deal at Michigan as we speak.

Congrats to our new GM on reading between the lines.