Thankfully this is almost over
With the 2024 NFL Draft less than a week away, the excitement is ramping up for fans of the Minnesota Vikings (and the 31 other teams we don’t care about nearly as much). For head coach Kevin O’Connell, there’s pretty much nowhere he can go without getting questions about what the Vikings might do on Thursday.
Including church, apparently.
O’Connell was giving a talk at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth on Thursday entitled “Faith and Leadership: Coaching in the NFL.” You can see the entirety of the speech here if you’re so inclined.
Towards the end of the session, one of the attendees asked O’Connell a question not about faith. . .or leadership. . .or coaching. Rather, he asked the coach about two of the quarterbacks that the Vikings might end up drafting on Thursday Night: North Carolina’s Drake Maye and Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy. He proceeded to give a pretty lengthy breakdown of their differences. I won’t transcribe the whole thing but if you want to hear the whole question and answer it starts at around the 1 hour, 19 minute mark of the above video.
The man who asked the question then followed up by suggesting that O’Connell could “work his Patriots connection” in order to trade up to #3. O’Connell was drafted by the Patriots in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft but was only with the team for one season, so I’m not sure how many connections he might have there at this point. O’Connell did, however, give a pretty funny answer to the question:
I may or may not have sent a nice bouquet of flowers to (Patriots owner) Robert Kraft the other day.
The rumors about the Vikings wanting to trade up in order to secure a quarterback will continue to fly until the selection meeting kicks off in Detroit on Thursday night. I’m going to guess that Kevin O’Connell and anyone else with a connection to the Vikings’ organization will continue to get questions from all potential sources until they get to Eagan on Thursday.
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