Episode Description
Minnesota Tim discusses the current state of America and its impact on sports entertainment, particularly focusing on the Minnesota Vikings. He highlights the coaching changes within the team, the potential return of Brian Flores as defensive coordinator, and the implications of DEI policies in the NFL. The conversation also touches on the need for the Vikings to strengthen their defense in the upcoming season.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome into the show today. Thank you for making this
podcast a part of your day. This podcast is one
hundred percent honest, one hundred percent of the time, and
doesn't really care about your feelings. All right, So America,
as America ever been more back or at least more entertaining.
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Donald Trump is now loved by a majority of not
only people, but networks. ESPN during the National College football
game last night cut to Donald Trump and a speech
that he was giving about the National Championship game. Do
you think that would have happened four years ago or
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eight years ago? Absolutely not. There's only two genders now,
Thank the Lord. That is amazing. But let's talk about
the Minnesota Vikings because this is a Minnesota Vikings podcast,
and there is some big news that could drop really
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in the next day or two, and we gotta wait
for one more shoe to drop and that news would
be clinched. And the news revolves around coaching candidates on
the Minnesota Vikings roster. So the Minnesota Vikings have their
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sensational fourteen and three season, and anytime a teams has
a sensational fourteen and three season, teams are gonna come
plucking for your coordinators. Teams are gonna come plucking for
your QB coaches and make them offensive coordinators. There's a
secret sace that comes with a good record, and teams
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try to apply that secret sauce their own organizations. So
guys like Josh McCown, Brian Flores, even the quarterbacks coach,
was getting interviews for head coaching jobs and offensive coordinator positions.
But the good news for the Minnesota Vikings is that
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all of the teams that are looking for head coaching candidates,
or at least a majority of them, are plucking away
the coordinators from the Detroit Lions. Ben Johnson goes to
the Chicago Bears. Looks like Aaron Glenn is going to
sign with the New York Jets. The goal is to
not let him escape the building. Today, reported by Ian
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Rappaport and Brian Flores went on interviews with multiple teams,
the Jaguars, the Jets, the Bears, and all of those
teams it appears, are going different directions, even the Jacksonville Jaguars.
It was reported by Adam Schefter recently and it says this,
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I'll share this green with you, Jacksonville's head coaching search
Jaguars are bringing in former Raiders d C. Patrick Graham,
former Jets head coach Robert Sala, and Buccaneer's offensive coordinator
Liam Cohen this week for in person second interviews. I'm
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not quite sure what the Jacksonville Jaguars are thinking on
those first two situations.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The Raiders stink.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Why would you bring in their defensive coordinator Robert Sala.
He might be eye, but he got fired from the
Jets last year. Hard to blame him necessarily because the
Jets organization is just straight up disaster. And the Buccaneers
offensive coordinator, that would make sense, and that's probably who
the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to hire as their next
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head coach based on his success with the Baker Mayfield
this season.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But yeah, he's another hot head coaching candidate.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And you've got to re leave room for the Jaguars
doing stupid Jaguars things by bringing in a Raiders defensive coordinator.
So that's just you can't give the Jaguars too much
credit for not being complete idiots. But the great news
is that it appears Brian Flores is going to be
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bad as the Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator and going into
this offseason, he was one of the hot head coaching candidates.
You know, Brian Flores and the Chicago Bears. It just
sounds like that makes sense. A tough, gritty nineteen eighty four,
nineteen eighty five defense and whatever it was, and you
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bring in Brian Flores, it seems like the Chicago Bears
and defense just makes sense. But they actually made a
smart hire and brought in Ben Johnson. Now, I don't
know if we need to be scared of Ben Johnson
and the Chicago Bears just yet. Let's see how this
thing develops a little bit, but we'll see what happens.
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But Brian Flores and the Jets, they're going a different direction.
With the Detroit Lions guy, Brian Flores and the Jaguars,
they're going a completely different direction. He didn't even get
brought in for a second interview, so, as it appears
right now, a lot of the Brian Flores interviews from
other football teams were to fulfill the Rooney Rule, which
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requires NFL teams to interview at least multiple black coaches
to give them a fair opportunity at being their head coach. Now,
we'll see if the NFL gets rid of these DEI
policies because all around us, these DEI policies are crumbling.
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Major corporations, Walmart and a bunch of them.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I mean, they're just falling by the wayside.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I think Washington Post, a bunch of these major corporations
are getting rid of these DEI policies. And it's one
of those things that I think DEI policies is not
what it's about. You hire the best person for the job,
regardless of race or color or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So that's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So it seems like it's great news for the Minnesota
Vikings because Brian Flores if he does not sign a
head coaching job with the last team that appears to
be seeking one out the Las Vegas Raiders, who Tom
Brady might have a relationship with because the Patriots connection.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So that's the last shoot.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
To drop, and then Brian Flores would be back in
Minnesota for another season as a defensive coordinator. So as
big a bummer as it was for the Vikings to
finish second in the NFC North, all the teams are
coming for the Detroit Lions coordinators and they're skipping right
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over the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Once, so that's good news. And to get another draft.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
To have all this free agency money to spend on
defensive guys and offensive linemen, you would think that the
Minnesota Vikings defense would be even better next year because
you think about who they threw out there this year,
and they've got experience, but they're also older Stefan Gilmour,
Shack Griffin.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You've got cornerbacks.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That, like I said, have experienced, but are definitely not
in their prime. And the depth at cornerback this season
was pretty poor. You bring back Viron Murphy hopefully, but
outside of him, abbyon Moreau, like, who are some of
these guys? We saw Dwaite McLoughlin come in a couple
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of times as needed when guys went down with injuries.
Who are these guys? And the Minnesota Vikings need to
bring in much more depth this offseason to shure up
the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Had much more talents.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because Harrison Smith might be gone, Cam Biningham he's an
unrestricted free agent, so the Minnesota Vikings need to make
a decision on him. There's a lot of decisions that
need to be made defensively. The Minnesota Vikings have the
money to do it. They still have a first round pick.
They lost some of their mids because of the trade
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up last year for JJ McCarthy and Dallas Turner. But
it's a good thing that Brian Flores will be back
as the Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator. If the Las Vegas
Raiders go in a different direction, now that's an if.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We don't know where the Raiders are at.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
In this whole situation, but good hopefully they go somewhere
else and the spectacular defensive scheme of Brian Flores is
back in Minnesota for another season.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Because as.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Much as other teams don't want to bring him in
as a head coach, maybe there's a whole lawsuit things
still going on in the NFL and teams just want
to completely avoid that distraction. I mean, if you had
someone coming in for an interview for any job and
they were suing your company for unfair practice, do you
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really want to bring that guy.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
In as the head coach.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
A coordinator is something different, there's not as much responsibility.
But if he's suing your corporation, do you really want
that guy to be the head decision maker of the
organization in a major role.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Maybe that's what's the.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Maybe that's why teams are reconsidering hiring Brian Flores as
the head coach of their football team. And as much
success as he had with the Miami Dolphins, they're in
their rebuild situation. And then I think they finished his
last year strong, but they still miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think they were like one.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
In eight and then they finished off like a six
game winning strick, and then he got fired. They still
missed the playoffs. He never made the playoffs with the
Miami Dolphins. He had a twenty four and twenty five
overall record with the team, so it's not like he
was this unbelievable thirty and seven coach and just got fired.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He hadn't made the playoffs in three years, and a
three year run is about it for most NFL head coaches.
Some guys are god after one year. So as much
as Brian Flores wanted to sue the NFL for unfair
practice against a black head coach, all the time guys
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get fired after a year or two, and.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
He made it three.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So for that reason alone, he should be grateful that
he made it three years with the Miami Dolphins without
a playoff appearance. That's the way the NFL works. So
if Minnesota Vikings want to reconsider how good a head
coach Kevin O'Connell is after winning like thirty four games
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in three years, well, Brian Floores isn't good enough as
a head coach twenty four to twenty five. And the
good news is is that he will be back as
the Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator. If the Las Vegas Raiders
go a different direction, that's a big news. That's phenomenal
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news for the Minnesota Vikings. Thank you for watching this episode,
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