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Kaep had nothing to do with the Vikings not hiring Jim Harbaugh

MINNEAPOLIS — Patrick Peterson will be back in Minnesota for a second season with the Vikings.

Kevin O'Connell gets his first welcome from a six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach.

The Vikings' new-school vision of a shared ownership between players and coaches continued to unfold Thursday at TCO Performance Center as coach Kevin O'Connell introduced three coordinators he feels can develop, teach, lead, motivate and, just as importantly, collaborate with today's NFL player.

MINNEAPOLIS — Six weeks after the Vikings fired general manager Rick Spielman and head coach Mike Zimmer, the team's new leaders sat on a dais in Eagan as a logo on the streaming video of the news conference declared "Vikings new era."

MINNEAPOLIS — The Vikings officially reached a deal with Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell to make him the 10th head coach in team history on Wednesday, putting the finishing touches on a regime that could define much of the Wilf family's third decade of team ownership.

MINNEAPOLIS — Football coaches tend to be optimists. At least, the employed ones are. They're fixers. They're confident because without confidence they couldn't function. The good ones believe that they can take their players and defeat your players, and take yours and defeat theirs.

Vikings fans celebrate their Super Bowl-winning head coach

MINNEAPOLIS — The Vikings plan to hire Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell to be the 10th head coach in the franchise's 61-year history, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.

After flying to Los Angeles to interview Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell and defensive coordinator Raheem Morris on Monday, the Vikings cut their time on the West Coast short and headed home to interview two finalists in Minnesota.