Billy Gil

Jim Irsay had quite the collection.

So there's the headline grabbing situation with paternity leave, right?

That, yeah.

I think we'll get to that in a moment.

It seems as though this was destined to happen for a long time and they thought maybe this would happen last year and then they signed him to an extension just to kind of let him go this year.

No one was ever on the same page with him is what the story makes it appear.

And there was kind of, even Brian Flores, before he signed his extension, he let his contract expire because he wasn't on the same page.

It seemed like he wasn't on, you know, happy with the direction that the front office was going.

But I think the most interesting thing, and you kind of mentioned it was the timing, is they had him go to Alabama for the Senior Bowl.

And he was going and he was talking to agents of players whose contracts are expiring.

And he was kind of going through all of the motions as though which obviously he didn't have any clue that this was going to happen.

But they let him go all the way out there, do all of this stuff for the draft just to as soon as he got back, let him know, hey, by the way, this this is this is done here.

Well, he has had a very poor record in drafts, and we're now heading into the draft.

And it seems as though the quarterback decision might have been made because he committed so much to that quarterback in the first round, in the draft, where you let Sam Darnold walk, and now he's going, as you mentioned, to the Super Bowl.

And then you have to start questioning, well, do we want this guy to now, I think four out of their 28 players that they've drafted under his watch.

So I think that the average is 368 starts over that period of time over people that were drafted.

This is according to Kevin Seifert.

And what the Vikings have gotten is 172 starts.

So they're like half as many starts as what an average draft class would, you know, give you.

His drafts haven't been good.