The Lions coach believed that his team would be facing the Vikings in the NFC divisional round, and now both teams are out of the playoffs.
After the Lions defeated the Vikings in Week 18 of the regular season, Detroit’s head coach told Minnesota’s Kevin O’Connell during their postgame embrace, “I’ll see you in two weeks” — implying the pair of teams would meet again in the postseason.
The Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings came into the playoffs as two of the favorites with head coach Dan Campbell sharing a message that he'll be hugely regretting at this point
Micah Parsons couldn't help but laugh at Dan Campbell after the Lions HC was heard saying, "See you in two weeks," to Kevin O'Connell.
Detroit Lions' Jared Goff, Dan Campbell picked as finalists for top NFL awards to be announced Feb. 6 in New Orleans.
When you win 15 games in a season as a head coach and earn the conference's top seed, more often than not you're going to be in contention for Coach of the Year. Sure enough, that is the case this season with Lions head coach Dan Campbell.
If the Seahawks are still interested in adding Udinski to their staff, they may face competition from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Their now-former offensive coordinator Liam Coen recently became the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Since then, Bucs head coach Todd Bowles has requested to speak with Udinski about his newly-minted vacancy at OC.
Bo Nix is a finalist for Offensive Rookie of the Year, Payton for Coach of the Year and Surtain for Defensive Player of the Year. Surtain is the favorite.
Johnson is the first Lions assistant to receive the PFWA award established in 1993. He was named the Chicago Bears head coach on January 21. Johnson joined executive vice president and general manager Brad Holmes as award winners from the PFWA. Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell beat out Dan Campbell for Coach of the Year honors.
Head coach Kevin O'Connell and the Minnesota Vikings agreed to a multi-year contract extension earlier in the week, and know we know the numbers.
New Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson took a bizarre shot at Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur in his first press conference.
(Undated) -- Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell was named N-F-L Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America yesterday.