The Vikings currently are looking for a new General Manager. They already have a coach.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the coach was asked about the search.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst and foremost, just out of respect for the process, it\u2019s currently ongoing, you know, I would defer . . . everything to ownership, and [Vikings COO] Andrew Miller as that process is ongoing,\u201d Kevin O\u2019Connell said. \u201cI\u2019m excited for potentially forming that relationship, going through the process, and as much of a part as ownership and Andrew want me to be a part of it, I will. . . . [V]ery much looking forward to a great outcome, which I know we\u2019re gonna get.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connell was asked whether he\u2019ll be talking to the candidates to be interviewed by the organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn whatever capacity that ownership and Andrew have for me as their plan, that\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do,\u201d O\u2019Connell said. \u201cYou know, obviously, it\u2019s an important time. It\u2019s important. It\u2019s clearly an important hire, but I have so much respect in the process-driven, the process-oriented aspect of not only our ownership, but Andrew Miller, that I know we\u2019re gonna get to that good outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s definitely important. And it\u2019s critical that the new General Manager and O\u2019Connell will be fully aligned. It needs to be a team effort. The G.M. must acquire players the coaching staff wants, and keep the players the coaching staff needs. There needs to be little or no daylight between the G.M. and coach.<\/p>\n
The biggest question is whether the new G.M. will report to O\u2019Connell, whether O\u2019Connell will report to the new G.M., or whether they\u2019ll be deemed as equal in the eyes of ownership.<\/p>\n
Regardless, O\u2019Connell is the proven commodity. He has a record of 43-25 in four seasons, with a 13-win season in 2022 and a 14-win effort in 2024. And he did it with a G.M. whom ownership decided to fire after the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
The best organizations have a G.M. and coach who are fully on the same page. When adversity strikes (and it will), they need to work even more closely together. For some teams, losing results in finger pointing and infighting. The coach blames the G.M., and the G.M. blames the coach. One goes, one stays.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s recently happened in Minnesota. Not because the team lost too many games, but because the team has failed to fulfill the potential it has shown since O\u2019Connell became the head coach. That alone should give O\u2019Connell a little more juice going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings currently are looking for a new General Manager. They already have a coach. On Friday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-634532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}