Trying to find meaning in the meaning of what an NFL coach says is a dangerous but necessary game.
Even coaches who are relatively forthcoming with information, as Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell appears to be, enter press conferences with their own agendas.
How things are said and what isn’t left said can give us deeper insight into what they’re really thinking – as long as we don’t look too hard or put words in a coach’s mouth that aren’t actually spoken.
That was the spirit in which I watched and double-checked O’Connell’s Monday press conference with reporters. I talked about some things I think I gleaned from it on Tuesday’s Daily Delivery Podcast.
Let’s move on to the biggest articles at the start of today’s 10 things to know: