A by-product of the team’s success is that other teams want to reproduce what you do. This means losing assistant coaches to promotions elsewhere, titled by someone (or several someone) becoming the head coach elsewhere. The Vikings of Minnesota had some of this turnover of the staff who had arrived at them after last season, but no one left for a job as a head coach.
Going to the 2025 season, most discussions on the assistant coach of the Vikings could have gone to a job as head coach in 2026 is centered on a guy.
It seems sure to assume that the defensive coordinator of Minnesota Brian Flores trials being discriminated against Against the NFL has had an impact on his candidacy for coach jobs in recent years, where he may have already obtained his second blow to be head coach.
But, finally, he will be gone, when / if he wants to leave, and if the defense of the Vikings is again good next season, he will have several interviews in the job cycle of next year. After his bad experience with the Miami dolphins, it is just to assume that he will be demanding with the next job of coach he takes.
The Vikings assistant of Minnesota tabuated as a candidate under coaching in 2026 (and this is not the one you think)
NFC North Beat writers of ESPN recently collaborated For a round table answering certain questions from the division.
When asked which key assistant NFC North is the most likely to be in the 2026 head coach’s job cycle, the editor of Chicago Bears Beat Courtney Cronin took a clear road with Flores.
But then the Vikings beat the writer Kevin Seifert left the beaten track with his choice and selected the quarter of Minnesota, Josh McCown.
“Also a wild as it may seem, the 2024 season was the first full season of MCCOWN as an assistant NFL coach. He opted for interviews for offensive coordinator stations, but has always obtained an interview for the new York Jets head coach.
McCown has long been on the league radar, having interviewed the best job of Houston’s Texans in 2022, and if McCarthy works well in 2025, McCown could be able to completely jump the level of the coordinator. “”
It must be a kind of historic record to have head coach interviews with two teams despite such a short training curriculum vitae.
The first McCown coach position came with the Carolina Panthers as a quarter of the quarter in 2023, but he was dismissed with head coach Frank Reich after a start of 1-10 this season.
Being dismissed in Caroline so quickly turned out to be great for the career of McCown coach, and his role in the success of Sam Darnold last season should not be reduced.
If JJ McCarthy has a similar success this year, McCown obtains a serious opinion as a head coach candidate in 2026 is not out of the question, and the chief coach of Minnesota, Kevin O’Connell, could end up having to replace two assistant coaches in 2026.
