Well, the never-ending saga that is the Minnesota Vikings search for a defensive coordinator took another major turn on Sunday, and not one that many folks expected. On Saturday, the Denver Broncos released their defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero from his contract, allowing him to take interviews elsewhere.
The Vikings are well-known as a team that wanted an interview with Evero, so the assumption was that this would allow the Vikings to do just that.
Unfortunately, that did not happen.
Instead, Evero very quickly had an interview set up with the Carolina Panthers, and things moved so fast that he had accepted the job with Carolina and their new head coach Frank Reich by Sunday afternoon, as first reported by Tom Pelissero.