Chad Fitzgerald
@vikingchad.bsky.social
I 💯 believe this to be true.
It's another way the Wilfs failed. Once you make the hire you have to support to make sure this doesn't happen.
It's another way the Wilfs failed. Once you make the hire you have to support to make sure this doesn't happen.
Adofo-Mensah, with his economics/analytics background, wasn’t considered a real football guy, so all the real football guys in the organization spent years undermining and end-running him. Where O’Connell’s loyalties ended up can be inferred from the results.
miketanier.substack.com/p/force-chok...
miketanier.substack.com/p/force-chok...
Force-Choking for Fun and Profit (A Coaching Carousel Saga)
Joe Brady's ascension, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah's dismissal, Todd Monken's Cleveland surprise and more notes from the NFL's backstabbing circuit.
miketanier.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I 💯 believe this to be true.
It's another way the Wilfs failed. Once you make the hire you have to support to make sure this doesn't happen.
It's another way the Wilfs failed. Once you make the hire you have to support to make sure this doesn't happen.
This is such a good and complete review of the firing.
Unfortunately, it makes me feel hopeless about the organization.
Unfortunately, it makes me feel hopeless about the organization.
The details surrounding Kwesi Adofo-Mensah's firing was puzzling. I break down what I've read, what I've heard, what his track record is and why I think there's more at play than him simply being bad at drafting
www.wideleft.football/p/the-kwesi-...
www.wideleft.football/p/the-kwesi-...
The Kwesi Konundrum: Why Did It Play Out Like This?
The Minnesota Vikings, bafflingly, let go of their general manager in late January. It may have made sense to let him go at season's end, but the timing and reporting is puzzling. We break it down.
www.wideleft.football
February 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This is such a good and complete review of the firing.
Unfortunately, it makes me feel hopeless about the organization.
Unfortunately, it makes me feel hopeless about the organization.
Reposted by Chad Fitzgerald
Analysis: Everybody needs to calm down. J.J. McCarthy has played in only six NFL games.
Analysis: Everybody needs to calm down. J.J. McCarthy has played in only six NFL games.
Matthew Stafford and Peyton Manning got off to horrific NFL starts but eventually turned things around, which is why patience is needed in assessing J.J. McCarthy.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Analysis: Everybody needs to calm down. J.J. McCarthy has played in only six NFL games.
September 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reposted by Chad Fitzgerald
I’m kinda pissed that the media didn’t think the Pope’s baseball fandom was an important enough detail to fact check because now we’re getting accused of smugly deciding for ourselves that he was a Cubs fan, instead of hearing it from multiple credible news outlets
May 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I’m kinda pissed that the media didn’t think the Pope’s baseball fandom was an important enough detail to fact check because now we’re getting accused of smugly deciding for ourselves that he was a Cubs fan, instead of hearing it from multiple credible news outlets
Read this and started doing push ups.
If you want to know how I feel about McCarthy just read this
If you want to know how I feel about McCarthy just read this
My working headline for this was “You must make me promise not to be annoying about JJ McCarthy.” But then I changed it so that I could—you guessed it—be annoying about JJ McCarthy. defector.com/the-vikings-...
The Vikings Belong To J.J. McCarthy Now, As Does My Cold Black Heart | Defector
Things are happening in Minnesota. While Rudy Gobert is still busy collecting his 96th rebound against a Lakers team that tried to advance in the NBA playoffs without a frontcourt, the Vikings have us...
defector.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Read this and started doing push ups.
If you want to know how I feel about McCarthy just read this
If you want to know how I feel about McCarthy just read this
Reposted by Chad Fitzgerald
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sounds like the opening statement of buyout negotiations
Tom Brady plans to be in the Fox broadcast booth for the duration of his 10-year contract, his agent, Don Yee, told the Sports Business Journal on Thursday.
https://www.espn.co.uk/nfl/story/_/id/43444525/agent-brady-plans-continue-dual-role-fox-raiders
https://www.espn.co.uk/nfl/story/_/id/43444525/agent-brady-plans-continue-dual-role-fox-raiders
Brady to be with Fox for long haul, says agent
Tom Brady plans to be in the Fox broadcast booth for the duration of his 10-year contract, his agent, Don Yee, told the Sports Business Journal on Thursday.
www.espn.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sounds like the opening statement of buyout negotiations
He's the best
Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵
January 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
He's the best
No Kohl's Cash Accepted 😂😂
Let the countdown begin ⏳
🕛: 12:00 p.m. CT
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#Skol #Vikings
🕛: 12:00 p.m. CT
📍: US Bank Stadium
🚫: No Kohl’s Cash Accepted
📺: NFL on FOX
📻: KFAN 100.3 FM
📱: Mnvkn.gs/appdownload
💻: Vikings.com
📰: Mnvkn.gs/3BfgrnS
#Skol #Vikings
December 7, 2024 at 10:24 PM
No Kohl's Cash Accepted 😂😂