PurplePTSD: Kevin O'Connell To The Vikings Isn't A Guarantee

Press release from the PurplePTSD:

K. Joudry

2022-02-07

If everything goes as planned, Kevin O’Connell will be the head coach of the Vikings in about a week.

There are sayings about the situation the team is in, though. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, it ain’t over ’til it’s over, and so on. You get the point.

I’m not trying to suggest that K/O won’t be the next head coach. Instead, I’m merely pointing out that there’s a week between now and the day that Kevin O’Connell ought to be officially announced as the Vikings next head coach.

In the past, coaches have backed out of a job. Josh McDaniels comes to mind, though there are certainly several others. PFT‘s Mike Florio suggested that it ought to be the Vikings who back out of the deal:

The chances of the team backing out are very small. Justin Jefferson – the team’s lone elite player – has expressed enthusiasm for what Kevin O’Connell will bring to the Vikings: “I’m just looking forward to it. It’s a new opportunity, new era, new energy, so we got to take advantage of it. . . . We got a new head man, we got a new G.M., so we just got to put the right people around us and we just got to go get it.” He also notes that Cooper Kupp was “open all the time” and that he’s looking forward to playing for a HC with an offensive background.

If the team did back out, it wouldn’t look good.

From what I can gather, it’s looking like a 99% chance (maybe even higher) that K/O formally accepts the offer to be the HC. He recently quipped that he does “own a very warm coat” during a press conference, a not-so-subtle suggestion that he’s planning on moving north.

Until he does, though, remember that it isn’t a sure thing.

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