When Minnesota Vikings owner Mark Wilf answered questions at TCO Performance Center on Tuesday afternoon, he said that ownership was not planning contract extension talks for head coach Kevin O’Connell and general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah right now.
EAGAN — Reportedly their contracts run through 2025.He also reiterated that ownership’s expectation remains to win the division and compete for a championship amidst the shift from Kirk Cousins to Sam Darnold and/or rookie JJ McCarthy. When asked how the 2024 record would factor into future extension talks he added that it would not be a “litmus test” for the head coach and GM.
Following their quest to pick the future quarterback, the Vikings appear to be a stable franchise with a plan to follow a similar path that we have seen successful teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers deploy in the recent past. That’s a far cry from where the Vikings were when KOC/KAM took over, which was a team with an over-the-hill and expensive roster and toxic environment inside the building.
Why rush when KOC is not a lame-duck coach? His authority isn’t being undermined by the lack of security right now. Next year it would be. Historically speaking it generally takes about three years to know for sure whether a quarterback can be a “franchise QB” or not. Allowing KOC’s development plan to take shape during that time frame makes more sense than turning every game into a referendum on whether he should remain in place.
The Vegas over-under is set at 7 or 7.5 wins, depending on where you look. If things do not go better than that, it should still be considered a necessary step to get where they are trying to go. For example, the Bills made the playoffs in 2017 and then won just six games behind a rocky Josh Allen season in 2018. By 2020 they were 13-3. It’s easy to forget that three of Kyle Shanahan’s first four years in San Francisco resulted in six wins or fewer.
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