Posted on 01/10/2022 6:47:16 AM PST by vespa300
On Monday morning, the Vikings made what might have been the most sweeping set of leadership changes in the Wilf family's 16 years of owning the team.
The team fired coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman on Monday morning, according to a source familiar with the team's decision-making, parting with two men who'd been in their positions longer than most of their peers around the NFL. Both Zimmer and Spielman had two years remaining on the contract extensions they signed in 2020, but a day after the team finished 8-9 and missed the playoffs for the second straight season, the Vikings opted for a total reset.
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Bears firings are good. Dolphins are making a mistake. He was a good coach that improved the team. They still have personnel issues but he was definitely maximizing the talent. Hopefully he lands somewhere that gets it.
LOL, maybe the Dolphins are bringing Saban back.
That wouldn’t surprise me. Habitually mediocre teams are so addicted to the quick fix. I laughed my butt off last night when I heard Denver ownership thinks they’ll be an attractive spot for a good coach because they’re “only a QB away”. Dudes, you’ve been “only a QB away” since Elway retired.
I don’t understand that move. Flores can coach and Miami had a winning record.
It will be interesting to see if now free agents, for once, will want to play in Detroit. That right there is one of the biggest reasons for their futility, players just didn’t want to play there. But I think the word is getting out that something is happening there.
Broncos fired their coach as well.
Jacksonville may want to look at Flores.
I’d take him or Kellen Moore, who is a hometown kid from Prosser, and put together the high-powered Cowboy Offense
Jax is interested in Moore.
I don’t blame them. I think Jerry Jones knows that Dan Quinn and Kellen Moore are the real reason Cowboys are in the playoffs and not Mike McCarthy
When my dad went to UF the yearbook was called The Seminole.....1936.....
Rick Spielman spent 6 seasons with the Dolphins, was promoted twice, and all his jobs were related to evaluating and choosing player personnel.
He inherited an above average team and made the play offs twice as a Wild Card with 11-5 teams.
His W/L for his last four seasons was 32-32 with no Play Offs.
Bottom Line...
Too many teams, too many games, not enough really good players, coaches, and executives.
Was there yesterday, present for all three wins. Season ticket holder. DC has this team fighting, scratching, clawing every play. Message to visiting teams, “Welcome to Detroit, watch your kneecaps!”
Was there for all three wins. My seats are in section 103, row 20. Lions side. Amon Ra St. Brown TD catch to beat Minny on the last play was right in front of me. Crowd went nucking futz!
That’s when FSU was still “Florida State College for Women”, LOL
“You know where you are...you’re in The Jungle, baby!”
(Yeah, I know The Bengals started it...)
How many times has that been said in the past 25 years? Since 1996 the lions have had approx. 12 head coaches. Only two of them had winning records, Gary Moeller who was 4-3 and Jim Caldwell who was 36-28.
While it may be insignificant, Sunday's win did cost them the 1st pick in the draft.
I haven't been a Lions fan for many years and won't be until the team gets new owners.....
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