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Inside the Game: Saints vs Vikings Connections

New Orleans Saints vs Minnesota Vikings Connections
  • New Orleans Head Coach Sean Payton, Minnesota Head Coach Mike Zimmer and Offensive Line Coach Tony Sparano served on the same coaching staff in Dallas from 2003-05.

  • Sparano served as New Orleans Defensive Coordinator Dennis Allen’s assistant head coach/offensive line, when he was head coach of Oakland from 2013-14. Allen also tutored Vikings running back Latavius Murray in Oakland those two seasons.

  • Minnesota wide receiver Laquon Treadwell played at the University of Mississippi.

  • Vikings Linebackers Coach Adam Zimmer served on the Saints coaching staff from 2006-09…Saints linebacker Michael Mauti was a seventh round draft pick of Minnesota in 2013 and played for the Vikings from 2013-14, during which he made 17 special teams tackles before joining New Orleans at the start of the 2015 regular season.