Best Coaching Staff..your Minnesota Vikings.

Reid has won what 3 super bowls recently? Until the big KOC gets one this is just clickbait.

AGRforever wrote:
Reid has won what 3 super bowls recently? Until the big KOC gets one this is just clickbait.

Reid has won 3 Superbowls since 2020...with the best QB in the business.  Think that's the point of the article...who gets the most out of their personnel.   Big difference in personnel going 14-3 with Sam "I see ghosts" Darnold.

I'm excited for football season to begin and bullshit season to mercifully end.

StickierBuns wrote:

Chicken or the egg? QB or the Head Coach? 

Me too. I'm worn out already and the preseason game overreactions haven't even started yet. Oh wait, they have.....its already been determined online that Dan Campbell is garbage and his coordinators did everything after the Hall of Fame garbage game. Sigh.

StickierBuns wrote:

O'Connell is the type to win with his and then take yours and beat you. I'm a big fan. The days are gone when Minnesota gets outcoached. If KOC can hit on JJ, the Vikings will be a force in the NFC for many years.

I think the same can be said for Flores.  He's never had the best personnel but has done well with what he has.

And how quickly they can fall. 2022 Coach of the Year, Brian Daboll, and his staff finished last in the rankings.

StickierBuns wrote:

Chicken or the egg? QB or the Head Coach? 

Me too. I'm worn out already and the preseason game overreactions haven't even started yet. Oh wait, they have.....its already been determined online that Dan Campbell is garbage and his coordinators did everything after the Hall of Fame garbage game. Sigh.

We will never know.  There is no answer to that.  Elite QBs don’t appear out of the ether.  You have prospects that have the correct physical traits and correct mental makeup.  They then get coached up by coaches, whether they are high school coaches, college coaches, pro coaches which helps mold them into the QBs they become.  Many great prospects go to crap teams and wither on the vine.  Many crap prospects go to good teams and become good.  I think there’s a lot of magic that happens when you combine a great prospect with a great coach.  Brady obviously wasn’t a great prospect, overlooked by his own college team and every NFL team many times.  Mahomes was drafted relatively high in the draft, but still overlooked by like 9 other teams and was the 19th best prospect on the consensus big board.  Belichek hasn't been great without Brady, although his defense has been great.  Brady has only really played with him and Arians who is a good coach.

That said Reid is obviously one of the top coaches with or without Mahomes.  Not really sure how to rank Spagnuolo though.  People rave about him lately but he’s got a lot of middle to bad performances in there as well.

KOC/Flores are definitely in the tier of top coaches, but I think KOC still has room to grow specifically in the scheme department, as I think he’s been really good at his one thing, but hasn’t seemed to really have enough counterpunches when other teams take away his strength.

Good for KOC and BFlo. I can't think of another coaching staff I'd rather have. And that includes Andy Reid. Winning the Super Bowl is about a lot more than coaching. You want a Super Bowl winning coach, go get yourself Jon Gruden, Mike Ditka or Barry Switzer. They're all available.

badgervike wrote:

Reid has won 3 Superbowls since 2020...with the best QB in the business.  Think that's the point of the article...who gets the most out of their personnel.   Big difference in personnel going 14-3 with Sam "I see ghosts" Darnold.

Eh...Reid and his system/staff are big reasons why Mahomes got to where he is, as Reid's time in Philly was a horror show for the NFC.

KOC worked wonders with Darnold, no argument. That said, though, the supporting cast is arguably better than KC's been able to retain. I know that I struggle to remember many people in the Chiefs' offense besides PM and that dude Taylor Swift chews on. All the skin-of-the-teeth wins by that bunch last season were pretty telling.

I'll be blunt. This is the best overall coaching staff that I remember in the last 20-30 years. The only reason I don't go farther back is my memory. LOL

Montana Tom wrote:
I'll be blunt.  This is the best overall coaching staff that I remember in the last 20-30 years.  The only reason I don't go farther back is my memory. LOL

Bud Grant with the purple people eaters defense and Jerry Burns offense gave us Vikings the expectation they could win it all for many years in a row. They failed but came close. That's the best coaching staff the Vikings ever had. They were the lowest paid team in the league and Bud got the best out of them.
But this is certainly the best they have had for the last 20 or 30, like you said.
They have had some great coaches, such as Brian Billick, Tony Dungy, and Dennis Green.
But what I think is different today is the commitment of ownership, to hire the coaches necessary to be a competitive team.
And the Vikings have a wealth of good coaches right now.
I expect good things are on the horizon!

Amazing when you consider we used 4 QBs in 2023. 

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