Mond "very sharp" at OTAs
https://vikingswire.usatoday.com/2022/05/24/vikings-oc-wes-phillips-says-kellen-mond-very-sharp-otas/
The praise for Minnesota Vikings second-year quarterback Kellen Mond continued to come in on Tuesday with offensive coordinator Wes Phillips being the recent coach talking up his improvements.
“Kellen is very sharp. He has really picked up the offense very well,” Phillips told media members. “I don’t know if you guys have seen him out here every day working with Jerrod Johnson—extra drill work, really working on his fundamentals.
“He’s done a really nice job getting up to speed with our offense, our terminology. He’s calling the plays really well in the huddle, and his eyes are in the right place.”
This news should excite Vikings fans, especially after the arrow appeared to be pointing down on Mond after his rookie season.
Nearly a week ago, coach Kevin O’Connell also talked about how impressed he was with the 22-year-old quarterback in the spring practices. If anything, it shows why it’s never a good idea to jump the gun on a player’s development.
There might still be a long-term future for Mond in the Vikings organization, depending on how his development tracks. It was always going to be an uphill battle for him to avoid being the odd man out for a regime that didn’t draft him.
And yet, the third-round pick out of Texas A&M is turning the right heads and giving renewed hope that the Vikings have a legitimate quarterback prospect on their roster.
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@"Vanguard83" said:@"medaille" said: It’s pretty clear that the new front office’s goal is to be the opposite of toxic. Everything is positive. Everyone is doing great. There is no dog house (that we’ll speak about in public). With Zimmer, he was blunt about the truth on underperforming players. With KOC, we’ll just not hear about it, until we get cryptic tweets from players about not being valued enough.
THIS.Everything is pie in the sky....until a couple losses. At which point we will hear..”everythings great, we just need to execute” or “Ill need to watch the film”.
I for one liked Zimmer’s “shit or get off the pot” mentality. If your ego cant take the harsh reality, find someone who WANTS to improve
I liked it as well, to bad it ended up being more about a rule for thee and not for me. He expected his players to be excellent, but when it was his coaching that led to failures he was bitter and really never improved. there were certain things that kicked his ass the first year, and some of those same things were still kicking his ass last year.
@"JimmyinSD" said:@"Vanguard83" said:@"medaille" said: It’s pretty clear that the new front office’s goal is to be the opposite of toxic. Everything is positive. Everyone is doing great. There is no dog house (that we’ll speak about in public). With Zimmer, he was blunt about the truth on underperforming players. With KOC, we’ll just not hear about it, until we get cryptic tweets from players about not being valued enough.
THIS.Everything is pie in the sky....until a couple losses. At which point we will hear..”everythings great, we just need to execute” or “Ill need to watch the film”.
I for one liked Zimmer’s “shit or get off the pot” mentality. If your ego cant take the harsh reality, find someone who WANTS to improve
I liked it as well, to bad it ended up being more about a rule for thee and not for me. He expected his players to be excellent, but when it was his coaching that led to failures he was bitter and really never improved. there were certain things that kicked his ass the first year, and some of those same things were still kicking his ass last year.
Yeah, he had that "perfect" scheme that always worked (when the players executed it perfectly), so how could it be a coaching issue.
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