Don’t query the timing of Jay Glazer’s reporting.
Through the “FOX NFL Sunday” pregame present airing earlier than Week 18 on Jan. 5, insider Jay Glazer surprisingly reported that Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell had been drawing commerce curiosity.
Some had questions concerning the timing of the report whereas Minnesota ready to battle the Lions for the division title and NFC’s No. 1 seed that night time.
After the Vikings truly prolonged O’Connell on Tuesday, NFL aggregator Ari Meirov of The thirty third Crew — the identical firm led by ex-Jets basic supervisor Mike Tannenbaum that has been contracted to assist the Jets discover their subsequent head coach — questioned the timeline and seemingly Glazer’s intention.
“I have so many questions about the Kevin O’Connell trade story that dropped on the morning of Week 18,” Meirov posted on X. “While I’m sure teams were interested in trading for him, the timing couldn’t have been worse for the #Vikings, given they were playing for the No. 1 seed that night.”
The Vikings would collapse from that time ahead, dropping to the Lions, 31-9, lacking out on a first-round bye, and following that up with an equally embarrassing 27-9 playoff loss to the Rams within the wild-card sport.
Glazer, who has labored as a studio analyst and reporter for FOX since 2004, quote tweeted Meirov’s put up and provided a fiery response to anybody alleging nefarious techniques together with his timing.
“Welp, the timing was because that is when our show airs Fox NFL SUNDAY. Not Wednesday or Thursday. SUNDAY,” Glazer wrote. “Every year for probably the last 15 years the same weekend I do my ANNUAL coaching carousel segment and usually drop nuggets that day that aren’t known. I don’t work for Twitter, I work for FOX so I wait til Sunday to drop news. I hold news very often to use on FOX only.”
He added: “Did my job reporting what was going on behind the scenes in some of these searches. This narrative that I reported it to screw the Vikings when they were going to play the Lions is the dumbest s–t I’ve ever read… and I’ve read some realllly dumb s–t over the years.”
Glazer additionally offered additional context about his reporting on O’Connell, who’s thought to be top-of-the-line NFL coaches and will carry house Coach of the Yr honors following a 14-3 season.
“Oh and btw, yes, there were in fact MULTIPLE teams interested in trading for KOC, and yes Vikings were aware of that,” he wrote in his response. “I never reported he’s being traded bc that’s up to Vikings. Just that he was on several team’s to try to trade for. They did the smart thing by moving quickly to ensure he would happily be the Vikings head coach for years.”
Glazer unveiled his O’Connell blockbuster whereas he provided different information on the eve of Black Monday, together with correct reporting that the Jaguars would fireplace Doug Pederson.
Fox had a video package deal prepared whereas he teased “one candidate out there that will surprise you all,” which proved to be O’Connell earlier than his workforce tried to assert the NFC’s No. 1 seed.
“There are multiple teams that are actually considering trying to trade for Kevin O’Connell,” Glazer stated. “The reason why? Next year, the last year of his deal. They have had no contract talks yet at all.”
With O’Connell now locked into a brand new deal and the dialogue put to relaxation, the Vikings face a vital offseason the place they need to work out what to do at quarterback.
J.J. McCarthy is rehabbing from a number of knee surgical procedures, whereas pending free agent Sam Darnold limped into the offseason after enjoying his two worst video games of an in any other case wildly profitable common season.
