Daily Norseman
Coaches are getting let go quickly. Several of the candidates could be possible replacements for Brian Flores should he go elsewhere. Jonathan Gannon might be nice. Who do you like if Flores leaves?
The QB situation is, once again, unsettled and some would say a mess. I will always remain hopeful.
Could Brian Flores leave the Vikings due to behind-the-scenes drama?
The concerning report comes from Jon Krawczynski, the longtime Minnesota sports reporter who specializes in covering the Timberwolves and the NBA. In an interview with KFAN-FM 100.3’s Dan Barreiro on Monday, Krawczynski indicated that Flores could leave the Vikings in a lateral move as a defensive coordinator because of whatever is allegedly happening behind closed doors.
“The way that I’ve looked at it and talked to people about it over the last several weeks, it has changed, to me, the temperature of the water in a way. I’ll say it in two ways. One is, I was sort of under the impression that, given Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the league and given how things ended in Miami and the confrontational nature of that, the chances of him getting another head coaching job was very minimal, with how owners operate. That said, it does seem like there’s real momentum toward a job with the Raiders, with Tom Brady hiring him as the head coach and maybe Brian Daboll or something like that as the offensive coordinator. I think that is more real than anything that I expected to be discussed from a head coaching standpoint at this point,” Krawczynski began.
“The second part… there does seem to be some sort of murmurings of discontent, of a butting of heads behind the scenes with other people in the organization, that there is some intrigue about, even if he didn’t get the Raiders job or another head coaching job, that there still is a real possibility that Flores could leave for another defensive coordinator job.”
“I can’t tell you the exact nature of the conflict, or of the drama behind the scenes, but there is something going on that does lead me to believe that it is not a foregone conclusion that he would stay here to be a coordinator, that he could leave to go elsewhere, which I think would be a disaster for the Vikings, and it would be a terrible look,” Krawczynski said.
“But yeah, there is something going on there. Maybe, maybe it’s a little bit of negotiating on Flores’ part to try and get every last bit of dollars that are coming his way. But there does seem to be some real talk behind the scenes of, you know what, it’s not all hunky-dory behind the scenes with Brian Flores and with this organization, and there are some other things that they have to navigate before they could get a deal done with him.”
“I wish I could give specific problems that are happening, and I don’t have them,” he said....
