What do you do in the offseason if you are the Vikings?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I haven't watched much Vikes. Did dudes just not blitz them? Was this a ****ing surprise? Because as bad as Darnold was - he was very bad - I didn't see a ton of TE leaks, RB in the flat, comebacks, the hot route shit.

I mean, the ones that were there he missed, so whatever, but I don't think O'Connell did a ton to help him.

I said this during the Lions game.

"Coach of the Year, my ass..."

O'Connell left Darnold out there to die in the two biggest games of their season and was THOROUGHLY out-coached in both games.

He'll get his win this year and I hope to never hear his name among the actual championship caliber coaches in the league again. Because he got exposed down the stretch.

There might just be some McDaniel to him. He's a guy who can look awfully sharp when things are going his way but he doesn't seem to have much of a plan when he gets punched in the mouth.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I said this during the Lions game.

"Coach of the Year, my ass..."

O'Connell left Darnold out there to die in the two biggest games of their season and was THOROUGHLY out-coached in both games.

He'll get his win this year and I hope to never hear his name among the actual championship caliber coaches in the league again. Because he got exposed down the stretch.

There might just be some McDaniel to him. He's a guy who can look awfully sharp when things are going his way but he doesn't seem to have much of a plan when he gets punched in the mouth.

I'm sure I'll get shit on for it, but this is another reason I don't think Andy gets the praise he should.

Alot of these coaches are good coaches when things go their way or when they have a hot QB.

But they themselves making the QB play well? Nah, but I've seen Andy do it.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

I'm sure I'll get shit on for it, but this is another reason I don't think Andy gets the praise he should.

Alot of these coaches are good coaches when things go their way or when they have a hot QB.

But they themselves making the QB play well? Nah, but I've seen Andy do it.

I said it BEFORE he won his first SB -- Andy Reid was always a victim of his own success.

People wanted to kill him for not winning a SB with Donovan McNabb when in fact, the only reason people thought that scatter-armed mediocrity was a championship caliber QB was BECAUSE of Andy Reid.

I didn't need the SBs to know that Reid was one of the best coaches of all time. But I'm sure glad he got 'em.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I said this during the Lions game.

"Coach of the Year, my ass..."

O'Connell left Darnold out there to die in the two biggest games of their season and was THOROUGHLY out-coached in both games.

He'll get his win this year and I hope to never hear his name among the actual championship caliber coaches in the league again. Because he got exposed down the stretch.

There might just be some McDaniel to him. He's a guy who can look awfully sharp when things are going his way but he doesn't seem to have much of a plan when he gets punched in the mouth.

I don’t know, there’s also so many ways you can dress up a pig. It reminds me of when dick vermeil used to gameplan around Jordan black. At some point you’re gonna be exposed. Those runs and quick passes don’t mean shit if your qb can’t prove he can do anything beyond that. It’s a wonder darnold was masked for that long.

I still really like KOC and the takeaway for me is that darnold largely got exposed for who he is. On the one hand KOC probably had an Andy Reid vs anuramo game where darnold should have taken what he was given. On the other hand I don’t think that would have mattered when the qb is that broken. We still have to remember that the Vikings went this far with a backup qb and I think that absolutely deserves coach of the year consideration.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I said this during the Lions game.

"Coach of the Year, my ass..."

O'Connell left Darnold out there to die in the two biggest games of their season and was THOROUGHLY out-coached in both games.

He'll get his win this year and I hope to never hear his name among the actual championship caliber coaches in the league again. Because he got exposed down the stretch.

There might just be some McDaniel to him. He's a guy who can look awfully sharp when things are going his way but he doesn't seem to have much of a plan when he gets punched in the mouth.

QB is everything. Remember in 2017 when we started off so hot with Alex and then by Thanksgiving Andy was fried? He was burnt out and gave Nagy playcalling duties.

He just couldn’t get anything out of Alex anymore. He squeezed that orange completely dry.

I think that’s exactly what’s happened here. The wildcard rd primarily was about defenses getting tape on these middle of the pack QB’s and killing them.

Darnold, Nix, Herbert, Love, Wilson. Just can’t hide these guys forever. Eventually it’s gut check time and plays needs to be made.

There’s a reason McVay traded for Stafford. Shannahan, McDaniels and KOC have been limited by their QB’s the way Andy was for years.