EAGAN, Minn. -- Thank you, Cleveland.
If that wasn’t among the first thoughts by Minnesota Vikings brass after news broke that the Browns intend to hire Freddie Kitchens as their next head coach, it should have been.
The move, which leaked Wednesday, effectively kept the Vikings from enduring a long, painstaking process of finding their next offensive coordinator. It saved them a lot of headaches by paving the way for Kevin Stefanski, who interviewed for the same position as Kitchens, to return to the post he assumed one month ago Friday upon the firing of John DeFilippo.