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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Kevin O'Connell is the next head coach and he makes more sense for the Vikings than Jim Harbaugh

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Matthew Coller

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom react to the news that Kevin O'Connell will be the next coach of the Minnesota Vikings and talk about his timeline for a rebuild and whether Vikings fans should be upset that Jim Harbaugh didn't work out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hey everybody welcome to

0:16.5

welcome to another live stream between Purple Insider myself and Sam Ekstrom

0:20.8

here and bring me the news and we certainly have been brought to the news today with

0:28.6

Jim Harbaw heading back to Michigan and the Minnesota Vikings set to hire Kevin O'Connell of the Los Angeles Rams to be their next head coach.

0:39.0

And so here we are, not our usual time, Sam,

0:43.0

but reacting to this breaking news.

0:45.4

And I guess my first take is it's never normal.

0:49.7

The Vikings could not just hire a GM without drama and they couldn't just hire a head coach without drama,

0:56.2

but ultimately Sam, they end up landing on a very good candidate who is operating an offense that is in the Super Bowl.

1:05.0

100%.

1:06.3

And I personally have been banging the drum

1:09.5

for the offensive-minded coach now for several weeks weeks and I think they arrived at the right place.

1:16.0

I mean honestly I think this this guy probably has a little better resume than Kellyn Moore.

1:22.0

I think he's done more with better resume than Kellyn Moore.

1:23.2

I think he's done more with probably a little lesser

1:26.2

quarterback than Aaron Rogers, which was maybe the concern

1:29.5

with Nathaniel Hackett.

1:31.6

And yeah, he engineered this offense

1:35.4

that had a record-breaking season from a receiver

1:38.6

with a new quarterback and got them in the Super Bowl. I think it's kind of exactly what the league is trending for

1:46.0

and will it 100% work out just because he's offensive-minded?

1:51.0

No, but I think this is the stab you had to make. The Harboss stuff is fascinating. And will we ever truly know his motives? Will we know who wanted him in the Vikings facility and who was maybe

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