The NFL Annual Meetings Promote Plenty of Chatter

Vikings Territory Breakdown

The NFL owners and coaches met in Arizona this past week for the annual league meetings, and that means media access to some of the teams’ top personnel. Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell spoke and intimated his plans for the Purple’s 2026 quarterbacks (it needs a year attached to it since it generally changes every season for this organization). In KO speak, it was shrouded in a bit of non-committal verbiage, of course, but that won’t stop us from talking about it.

We also heard from owner Mark Wilf, who spoke with KFAN’s Paul Allen about the Vikings’ efforts to bring the NFL Draft to Minneapolis in 2028. We will talk about that exciting prospect, as well.

Furthermore, several rules changes were voted on, and there were even rumblings of a potential lockout of referees this season, due to some troublesome negotiations. But with the advent of eye-in-the-sky technology ever improving, is now the right time for the zebras to take a stand? Perhaps they need to huddle up and discuss it to make the right call, like we see happen so many times on the field each Sunday. 

Regardless, the fellas at the Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast—Joe Oberle, senior writer at vikingsterritory.com and purplePTSD.com, and Mark Craig, NFL and Vikings writer for the Star Tribune and startribune.com—will talk about the annual meeting news—plus some bits of personnel news coming out of TCO Performance Center. Tune in and check it all out. Skol! 

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Joe Oberle is a veteran sportswriter/editor/reporter and has covered the Vikings since 2008. The author of three books, he … More about Joe Oberle