January 18, 2025 • 12 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the current situation surrounding Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell, focusing on his contract extension and the speculation surrounding it. He addresses claims of tension between O'Connell and the Vikings organization, arguing that these stories are exaggerated and not reflective of the true relationship.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you for making this podcast a part of your
day and for going on this journey with me. This
podcast was one one hundred percent honest, one hundred percent
of the time, and I hope you feel that today
on the show. Hit that subscribe button wherever you're watching
or listening to this show.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
All Right, there's a big story that I.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Have not yet addressed on the podcast yet, and the
story revolves around Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell and
the contract extension that he has not yet signed with
the Minnesota Vikings. He has one year left on his
deal and with the success the Minnesota Vikings have had
(00:48):
in the three seasons when Kevin O'Connell's been the head coach.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thirteen and four.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
His second season, Cousins got hurt, but they were on
pace to make the playoffs even with Josh Dobbs, and
then a fourteen to three season, Kevin O'Connell feels like
he deserves a contract extension and when he doesn't have
one yet, news stories are gonna run from all different.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Kinds of sources. And that's that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk made some interesting claims
this past week, and this is what he had to
say about it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I got this from Pro Football News. They just shared it.
Bring me the news.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I mean, there's tension in the relationships, stemming largely from
the fact that he didn't get an extension after his
second season.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Florio wrote on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now that he's one year away from free agency, he
could be willing to let it ride if necessary and
hit the market. If o'connin chooses to bet on himself
for one more year, he might end up with a
lot more from another team than whatever the Minnesota Vikings
will offer. And this comes with Jay Glazer's report that
(02:04):
multiple teams are interested in trading for Minnesota Vikings head
coach Kevin O'Connell. Now we need to understand where Glazer's
report came from.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Paul Allen made an interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Take on his weekly daily radio Sewan K Fanny basically said,
if this.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Came from O'Connell's camp, shame on him. Shame on him for.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Making this a story late in the season and making
it a potential distraction amongst the players and other coaches.
But in my opinion, this comes from other NFL teams
that are interested in hiring Kevin O'Connell away.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
From the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
This came from the Raiders of the World, the Bears
of the world. All NFL teams that are looking for
a head coach. Does not come from Kevin O'Connell's camp.
This came from other teams looking to trade for Kevin O'Connell.
And when that story came out, I called it a
non story because if the amount of times that another
(03:13):
team was interested in trading for this coach or this
player came out, we would have an endless news cycle
of speculation and trades.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
If the Minnesota Vikings could, the Minnesota Vikings would trade
for Patrick Mahomes, which would mean that other teams would
be interested in trading for Patrick Mahomes. Doesn't mean that
that She's are interested in trading for Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No. Same thing with Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The Vikings are not interested in trading Kevin O'Connell. But
what other teams love to have Kevin O'Connell on there
are in their organization. Absolutely same thing went for Justin
Jefferson last offseason when guys like Florio and Charlie Walters
of the Pioneer Press were making speculative offseason trades for
(04:03):
Jefferson because there wasn't a deal done yet.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I came on this show and said, that is ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Any of these potential trades for Jefferson are completely bonkers
and they are not gonna happen, and sure enough, it happens.
So I am just gonna stay right here that all
of these Kevin O'Connell stories about him getting traded, about
him not signing a contract extension is the exact same
(04:30):
story as it was for Justin Jefferson last offseason. He
is not going anywhere, and the Minnesota Vikings organization takes
care of their people. Think about Jefferson signed his deal.
I guess you could argue that Kirk Cousins they didn't
take care of him, but I would argue that they
tried to.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They tried to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Put together an extension with Kirk Cousins before his final
one year deal with Minnesota, and.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Kirk wanted none of that. So they tried to.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Make a deal with Kirk, but Kurk let it ride
and he let it play out. Her tore his achilles
signed a big deal with Atlanta. Good for him, So
it's not the fact.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It wasn't a situation.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Where the Minnesota Vikings let Kirk walk, he let they
let'im improve it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
They try to make a deal happen at the table.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And when I see stories about O'Connell and these tension
claims with ownership, my mind goes to, Okay, if.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
There are millions and millions and millions.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of dollars at stake, we're talking about what four or
five year contract extension worth anywhere from forty five to
sixty million dollars in totality, And anytime that there's this
amount of money at stake, of course there's going to
be tension. Anytime that there's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There's tension. You walk Shark Tank with.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Kevin O'Leary and Mark Cubett, there's tension amongst the investors
and amongst the people that come with their products because
they want it for five percent, the Shark's off for
twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And they meet somewhere in the middle at fifteen percent.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And it's the same thing with Kevin O'Connell and the
Vikings ownership group. Oh Conna wants this, Vikings ownership wants this,
and they'll find somewhere to meet in the middle.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Tension with millions and millions and millions of dollars at stake,
So get.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Rid of this tension. Bullcrab.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm sick and tired of hearing it. It's a bunch
of garbage. And Kevin O'Connell had this to say at
his final press conference, and you got to take these
things with a grain of salt to because every coach
in the league is going to say this, he says
what I will.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What I would say is I love.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Being the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, And with
that becomes the fact that I love our ownership. I
have a great relationship with our ownership and feel so
fortunate not only just the way they support us but
and believe in us, but also the impact they have
had on our players, on our locker room, and ultimately where.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We all want to go together. Feel very very great
about that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, does that sound like there's a problem among Kevin
O'Connell and the Minnesota Vikings ownership group. Absolutely not. And
there was a theory out there and I was interested
in kind of, HM, let's see if this theory is true.
Kevin O'Connell and is finally final yearly press conference mentioned
(07:22):
or didn't have any Minnesota Vikings logos on, not a hat,
not a shirt, and the Purple Persuasion took that and
ran with a conspiracy theory. I was like, Wow, this
is an interesting conspiracy theory. But then Kevin and Seaffort
I think it was basically put that one to bed
by showing other pictures of Kevin O'Connell not wearing any
(07:43):
Minnesota Vikings gear during a press conference.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So he's done that before.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But what this really reminds me of are movies that
tried to paint a picture of an incredible story, but
I see it completely different. Meaning for example, Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump was on television last night, and the story
(08:08):
that wants to be sold is that you got these
two kids that grew up together and they fall in
love and they get married and they have a kid.
Then they get married and happy ever after she dies.
The true story of that movie is Forrest Gump likes
this girl from childhood. She loves her, cares for her,
(08:30):
She friend zones him anytime she needs him.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
She goes after him for a friend zone.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Make Yourself feel better takes off, leaves him at the
altar figuratively, and completely ignores him for a while until
she needs something again. Then she goes back to him,
and then at the end of the movie he becomes
a billionaire. Oh, all of a sudden, she's interested. She
has sex with the guy, makes him have a kid
(08:58):
at the end of the movie.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Also, she's got this sick virus.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
She goes back to him, gets married, and gets taken
care of by a billionaire, and then she dies.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's the story.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And this Minnesota Vikings Kevin O'Connell thing, it's like, the
story that's being pushed is this story of fake news,
the tension and the head coach ownership relationship, the tension
in the contract extension. Why does he have a contract
extension yet? And the true story is that it's coming.
(09:31):
The Minnesota Vikings will take care of their head coach.
So all of this speculation, garbage, all of this talk
about is not going to get it done.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Those are fake news stories.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And the truth about the matter is that he will
sign a contract extension.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He will get it done.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But that's not the thing being pushed. That's not the
story being pushed. You could do the same story with
the Titanic. You got this rich, entitled girl and Gage
should be married, decides to go on one last run,
sleeps with the homeless guy and lets him die because
(10:12):
she didn't make any room from on the door floating
in the ocean, and she carries this heart of the
ocean with her all the way to the end of
the movie when she's one hundred and two years old
and she drops it. No, that's not the story being pushed.
The story being pushed is that, Oh, it's a time
of two love birds that get together and you know,
(10:34):
you got this rich girl, you got this homeless dude,
and it's just a wonderful story of two people falling
in love. Now, she was horny and she wanted to
go on one last hectic run because she felt like
she was being trapped her entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That's the story.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And it's the exact same thing with Kevin O'Connell and
the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The story that's.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Being pushed is not the story that's accurate, because it
is interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's interesting to say, oh, there's tension in the relationship.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It's interesting and fascinating to say, oh, things might not
be going right here. Kevin O'Connell might be traded. There's
other teams that want to be true. They want to
trade for Kevin O'Connell when the truth of the matter
is not the story that's being pushed. The truth is
he will sign a contract extension this offseason and it
will happen, just like Forrest Gump, just like Titanic. The
(11:28):
stories being pushed are not the accurate. Once Kevin O'Connell
will be back as the Minnesota Vikings head coach for
years to come, and he knows it, and the Vikings
ownership knows it, and the Vikings players know it too.
So any of this nonsense just get it off my feed,
and it just really pisses me off. Not much pisses
(11:51):
me off, but when there's stories that get pushed that
are completely false, it pisses me off. So that's my
take for the day. Thank you for watching. Thank you
for subscribing. If you do already, if you don't, hit
that subscribe button in the lower corner of the screen.
If you're watching on YouTube, and if you're listening on
app or Spotify, hit that follow button and my podcast
(12:14):
will be in your feed six times a week, six
days a week. Thank you everyone for making this podcast
a part of your day, and thank you for going
on this podcasting journey with me. I hope you felt
that the time feeling today. Everyone, have a great day.
Welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you for making this podcast a part of your
day and for going on this journey with me. This
podcast was one one hundred percent honest, one hundred percent
of the time, and I hope you feel that today
on the show. Hit that subscribe button wherever you're watching
or listening to this show.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
All Right, there's a big story that I.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Have not yet addressed on the podcast yet, and the
story revolves around Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell and
the contract extension that he has not yet signed with
the Minnesota Vikings. He has one year left on his
deal and with the success the Minnesota Vikings have had
(00:48):
in the three seasons when Kevin O'Connell's been the head coach.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thirteen and four.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
His second season, Cousins got hurt, but they were on
pace to make the playoffs even with Josh Dobbs, and
then a fourteen to three season, Kevin O'Connell feels like
he deserves a contract extension and when he doesn't have
one yet, news stories are gonna run from all different.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Kinds of sources. And that's that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk made some interesting claims
this past week, and this is what he had to
say about it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I got this from Pro Football News. They just shared it.
Bring me the news.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I mean, there's tension in the relationships, stemming largely from
the fact that he didn't get an extension after his
second season.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Florio wrote on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now that he's one year away from free agency, he
could be willing to let it ride if necessary and
hit the market. If o'connin chooses to bet on himself
for one more year, he might end up with a
lot more from another team than whatever the Minnesota Vikings
will offer. And this comes with Jay Glazer's report that
(02:04):
multiple teams are interested in trading for Minnesota Vikings head
coach Kevin O'Connell. Now we need to understand where Glazer's
report came from.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Paul Allen made an interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Take on his weekly daily radio Sewan K Fanny basically said,
if this.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Came from O'Connell's camp, shame on him. Shame on him for.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Making this a story late in the season and making
it a potential distraction amongst the players and other coaches.
But in my opinion, this comes from other NFL teams
that are interested in hiring Kevin O'Connell away.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
From the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
This came from the Raiders of the World, the Bears
of the world. All NFL teams that are looking for
a head coach. Does not come from Kevin O'Connell's camp.
This came from other teams looking to trade for Kevin O'Connell.
And when that story came out, I called it a
non story because if the amount of times that another
(03:13):
team was interested in trading for this coach or this
player came out, we would have an endless news cycle
of speculation and trades.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
If the Minnesota Vikings could, the Minnesota Vikings would trade
for Patrick Mahomes, which would mean that other teams would
be interested in trading for Patrick Mahomes. Doesn't mean that
that She's are interested in trading for Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No. Same thing with Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The Vikings are not interested in trading Kevin O'Connell. But
what other teams love to have Kevin O'Connell on there
are in their organization. Absolutely same thing went for Justin
Jefferson last offseason when guys like Florio and Charlie Walters
of the Pioneer Press were making speculative offseason trades for
(04:03):
Jefferson because there wasn't a deal done yet.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I came on this show and said, that is ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Any of these potential trades for Jefferson are completely bonkers
and they are not gonna happen, and sure enough, it happens.
So I am just gonna stay right here that all
of these Kevin O'Connell stories about him getting traded, about
him not signing a contract extension is the exact same
(04:30):
story as it was for Justin Jefferson last offseason. He
is not going anywhere, and the Minnesota Vikings organization takes
care of their people. Think about Jefferson signed his deal.
I guess you could argue that Kirk Cousins they didn't
take care of him, but I would argue that they
tried to.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They tried to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Put together an extension with Kirk Cousins before his final
one year deal with Minnesota, and.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Kirk wanted none of that. So they tried to.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Make a deal with Kirk, but Kurk let it ride
and he let it play out. Her tore his achilles
signed a big deal with Atlanta. Good for him, So
it's not the fact.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It wasn't a situation.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Where the Minnesota Vikings let Kirk walk, he let they
let'im improve it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
They try to make a deal happen at the table.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And when I see stories about O'Connell and these tension
claims with ownership, my mind goes to, Okay, if.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
There are millions and millions and millions.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of dollars at stake, we're talking about what four or
five year contract extension worth anywhere from forty five to
sixty million dollars in totality, And anytime that there's this
amount of money at stake, of course there's going to
be tension. Anytime that there's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There's tension. You walk Shark Tank with.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Kevin O'Leary and Mark Cubett, there's tension amongst the investors
and amongst the people that come with their products because
they want it for five percent, the Shark's off for
twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And they meet somewhere in the middle at fifteen percent.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And it's the same thing with Kevin O'Connell and the
Vikings ownership group. Oh Conna wants this, Vikings ownership wants this,
and they'll find somewhere to meet in the middle.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Tension with millions and millions and millions of dollars at stake,
So get.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Rid of this tension. Bullcrab.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm sick and tired of hearing it. It's a bunch
of garbage. And Kevin O'Connell had this to say at
his final press conference, and you got to take these
things with a grain of salt to because every coach
in the league is going to say this, he says
what I will.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What I would say is I love.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Being the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, And with
that becomes the fact that I love our ownership. I
have a great relationship with our ownership and feel so
fortunate not only just the way they support us but
and believe in us, but also the impact they have
had on our players, on our locker room, and ultimately where.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We all want to go together. Feel very very great
about that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, does that sound like there's a problem among Kevin
O'Connell and the Minnesota Vikings ownership group. Absolutely not. And
there was a theory out there and I was interested
in kind of, HM, let's see if this theory is true.
Kevin O'Connell and is finally final yearly press conference mentioned
(07:22):
or didn't have any Minnesota Vikings logos on, not a hat,
not a shirt, and the Purple Persuasion took that and
ran with a conspiracy theory. I was like, Wow, this
is an interesting conspiracy theory. But then Kevin and Seaffort
I think it was basically put that one to bed
by showing other pictures of Kevin O'Connell not wearing any
(07:43):
Minnesota Vikings gear during a press conference.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So he's done that before.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But what this really reminds me of are movies that
tried to paint a picture of an incredible story, but
I see it completely different. Meaning for example, Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump was on television last night, and the story
(08:08):
that wants to be sold is that you got these
two kids that grew up together and they fall in
love and they get married and they have a kid.
Then they get married and happy ever after she dies.
The true story of that movie is Forrest Gump likes
this girl from childhood. She loves her, cares for her,
(08:30):
She friend zones him anytime she needs him.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
She goes after him for a friend zone.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Make Yourself feel better takes off, leaves him at the
altar figuratively, and completely ignores him for a while until
she needs something again. Then she goes back to him,
and then at the end of the movie he becomes
a billionaire. Oh, all of a sudden, she's interested. She
has sex with the guy, makes him have a kid
(08:58):
at the end of the movie.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Also, she's got this sick virus.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
She goes back to him, gets married, and gets taken
care of by a billionaire, and then she dies.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's the story.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And this Minnesota Vikings Kevin O'Connell thing, it's like, the
story that's being pushed is this story of fake news,
the tension and the head coach ownership relationship, the tension
in the contract extension. Why does he have a contract
extension yet? And the true story is that it's coming.
(09:31):
The Minnesota Vikings will take care of their head coach.
So all of this speculation, garbage, all of this talk
about is not going to get it done.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Those are fake news stories.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And the truth about the matter is that he will
sign a contract extension.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He will get it done.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But that's not the thing being pushed. That's not the
story being pushed. You could do the same story with
the Titanic. You got this rich, entitled girl and Gage
should be married, decides to go on one last run,
sleeps with the homeless guy and lets him die because
(10:12):
she didn't make any room from on the door floating
in the ocean, and she carries this heart of the
ocean with her all the way to the end of
the movie when she's one hundred and two years old
and she drops it. No, that's not the story being pushed.
The story being pushed is that, Oh, it's a time
of two love birds that get together and you know,
(10:34):
you got this rich girl, you got this homeless dude,
and it's just a wonderful story of two people falling
in love. Now, she was horny and she wanted to
go on one last hectic run because she felt like
she was being trapped her entire life.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That's the story.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And it's the exact same thing with Kevin O'Connell and
the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The story that's.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Being pushed is not the story that's accurate, because it
is interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's interesting to say, oh, there's tension in the relationship.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It's interesting and fascinating to say, oh, things might not
be going right here. Kevin O'Connell might be traded. There's
other teams that want to be true. They want to
trade for Kevin O'Connell when the truth of the matter
is not the story that's being pushed. The truth is
he will sign a contract extension this offseason and it
will happen, just like Forrest Gump, just like Titanic. The
(11:28):
stories being pushed are not the accurate. Once Kevin O'Connell
will be back as the Minnesota Vikings head coach for
years to come, and he knows it, and the Vikings
ownership knows it, and the Vikings players know it too.
So any of this nonsense just get it off my feed,
and it just really pisses me off. Not much pisses
(11:51):
me off, but when there's stories that get pushed that
are completely false, it pisses me off. So that's my
take for the day. Thank you for watching. Thank you
for subscribing. If you do already, if you don't, hit
that subscribe button in the lower corner of the screen.
If you're watching on YouTube, and if you're listening on
app or Spotify, hit that follow button and my podcast
(12:14):
will be in your feed six times a week, six
days a week. Thank you everyone for making this podcast
a part of your day, and thank you for going
on this podcasting journey with me. I hope you felt
that the time feeling today. Everyone, have a great day.
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