Vikings Seek Quarterback Help Before NFL Trade Deadline

All right, there's some big conversations obviously going on right now as the trading deadline is 4 p.m. Eastern time today. A lot of teams looking for positions, and most notably, especially after last night's debacle with the Minnesota Vikings at the quarterback spot, Adam Schefter is reporting that the Vikings have begun conversations on trying to bring in a quarterback. Obviously, Kyler Murray's not getting it done. Carson Wentz was a train wreck last night. Kevin O'Connell is addressing this right now. And he was addressed this question last night at the podium. I know it's a quick turnaround to the trade deadline, but is there any chance or any thought in your mind of at least considering acquiring a quarterback? Yeah, I'll defer to Nolan on that. We've had dialogue about a lot of different positions and tight turnaround, obviously playing the Monday night game before that. And we'll get right to work on any potential moves that can be there. But really. Really just focused on the game tonight, which was not good enough in any way, shape, or form. Do you talk about a train wreck of an organization when it comes to making the quarterback decisions? You land on J.J. McCarthy, then you have Daniel Jones, and you have Sam Darnold in the building. You allow those guys to roll out of the building, and I'm under the premise that you're going to make the right decision, that quarterback decision? Wow. You've got a long way to go, and I'll tell you something here. You need to appease this dude. You need to make this guy happy because he is your franchise. Is the solution maybe Nolan bringing somebody in before the deadline tomorrow afternoon? Not sure. That's on Nolan. That's on K.O. That's their job. My job is to continue to get open, continue to be the leader of the team, and come next week, and hopefully things change. Man, I wonder if I'll ever be able to wear a million-dollar necklace like that. That's incredible. I love that thing here. The game itself was absolutely a tough one for the Bills early on. Obviously, you're going to take on Brian Flores, but Brian Flores looked like a goat on the sidelines with that flat brim. I love the defense that he calls, and Kevin O'Connell knew that this was going to be a very tough game. I think it's just a mindset of going out there. In no way, shape, or form. It was tonight, acceptable, you know, it told the team it starts with me and 100% defense was on the field too much, thought they battled, thought we made some plays in the kicking game, just not even close offensively to what we want to be, thought there were some opportunities to kind of flip that game a little bit at multiple times, but we just, you know, never got Carson in a rhythm. Um, and, and. You know, tried a bunch of tools to see if we could help that happen, and just I didn't do a good enough job doing that. Across the board, our team, they'll stick together. We're 6-2. That's what our record is. We've got to go back to work, and we've got to go back to work and really evaluate, you know, what gives our team the best chance to win and play the game accordingly. So put tonight 100% on me, not about any one particular player. But we've got to improve offensively at a rapid pace. With a divisional game on a short week, our guys will handle it the right way. We'll get them turned over, and we'll go compete. No question about it. By the way, I'll get to Superman in a minute here, but you can't have a 6-2 football team and no offense. The Minnesota Vikings have one of the worst offenses in pro football, and they're sitting at 6-2 in the toughest division. In the National Football League, the NFC North, Carson Wentz was brutal last night, and he knew he had to take advantage of what that defense did last night, and he was unable to. Anytime you got a great defense like that, I mean, you know. All the things, take care of the ball, sustain drives, all that stuff, that's kind of complementary football for a defense that we have. But at the end of the day, when they're playing as good as they have been, as an offense, as the guy pulling the trigger tonight, I feel terrible. I feel a pit in my stomach that I let those guys down. We want to go make plays. We want to sustain drives. We want to do all those things and score points. And we, quite frankly, haven't really done it all yet. That's just a headless team, isn't it, when you don't have a quarterback sitting there like. that can move the chains and also just be competent. Speaking of competent and speaking of moving the chains, you know, one of the most important things you have to have when you have a football team that's going to contend for a Super Bowl, you've got to be patient. You know when you're taking on a Brian Flores defense. You know that this is going to be a hard-fought football game, and Josh Allen, he took his time and he knew his spots. I think it's just a mindset of going out there And not being... Result-driven, going out there and being process-driven and understanding what they're trying to do. At the end of the day, having fun playing the game of football. Bad play early on, wipe it, next drive, let's go. So, um... Just, again, finding the joy in the game itself and going out there and having fun with my teammates. We work extremely hard, and like I said, this game is what this game is, and we're going to do it having a good time. That guy sent out over 280 emails at one time when he was being recruited in high school or maybe not being recruited. And only one school got back with him, and that was Wyoming. And now look at him. He's the best player in the National Football League, and he's carrying that franchise on his back. There's no doubt you've got the best player in the National Football League there in Buffalo at the midway half.