Kirk Cousins was reportedly a busy man behind the scenes when Kevin O’Connell’s name came up as a potential head coaching hire for the Minnesota Vikings.
KFAN’s Paul Allen is reporting Cousins spent a great deal of time lobbying to the front office to hire his former quarterbacks coach from his time with the Washington Commanders. Allen used that tidbit of information as the basis for the argument that all of the supposed trade talks surrounding the Vikings 33-year-old quarterback are “fruitless.”
“Kirk put a lot of time into getting Kevin O’Connell hired and put a lot of time behind the scenes with those who hire,” said Allen, during an episode of Friday Feast! “Ok, so now there’s that. And O’Connell is glowing, to a certain extent, along with the new offensive coordinator [Wes Phillips], of Kirk. So, you lay those things out, right there.
