Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman knows where to turn if he needs outside help identifying his team’s biggest need.
“I know what’s been written [by the media], where, you know, we want to play more consistent up front on the offensive line,” he said Thursday.
Yessir.
The Vikings’ first move of the offseason, coming within 24 hours of their wild-card playoff loss to Seattle, was to fire offensive line coach Jeff Davidson. One of the next moves was to replace him with Tony Sparano, a 54-year-old former NFL head coach and offensive line expert who has reshaped the team’s blocking schemes and thinking on what traits it should be looking for in a lineman.