Since 2000, the Vikings have won at least nine games in consecutive seasons only once; that needs to change next season.

Following the game, in possibly the same room where Denny Green once gave his “they are who we thought they were” speech, O’Connell hunted for explanations about how they could be run out of ...

Let’s call it the Curse of Denny Green, who delivered winning seasons in seven of eight years from 1992-2000 (the outlier was an 8-8 campaign), and was fired the second a speedbump was hit in 2001.