Minnesota Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah wants everyone to relax. He has no regrets about letting Sam Darnold leave in free agency. None, zero. Absolutely not!
Also, yes, he admits he’s spent some long nights thinking about the quarterback who just led the Seattle Seahawks to the Super Bowl. Totally normal. It happens to everyone.
‘You spend a lot of those nights, obviously, you’re up in these decisions and they’re uncertain,’ Adofo-Mensah told reporters on Thursday. ‘You’re trying to make sure you don’t lock yourself into what you did and thinking that it’s always right.
‘So there are nights you wake up and stare at the ceiling and ask yourself… I always go back to the process and what we thought at the time. It’s easier to kind of go and be revisionist and result-based,’ he continued.
‘I still understand why we did what we did. The results maybe didn’t play out the way we wanted them to, but ultimately, I think at the end of the day we could have executed in certain places.’
Darnold is proving the Minnesota Vikings wrong and also making them jealous.
Based off his success with the Vikings, the Seahawks gave Darnold a three-year, $100.5 million contract to replace Geno Smith. He became the first quarterback in NFL history to lead two different teams to 14 wins in consecutive seasons. Tom Brady did it with the Patriots.
‘We believe in him. The building believes in him. The city believes in him. It’s awesome to run out onto the field with him,’ All-Pro wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba said.
Darnold has come a long way since telling coaches he was ‘seeing ghosts’ during a lopsided loss to the Patriots in his second season.
‘There was a lot that I didn’t know back then, so I’m just going to continue to learn and grow in this great game,’ Darnold said. ‘There is a lot of stuff that I can get better from today even. I feel like I missed some throws out there that I shouldn’t miss.
This whole situation feels like watching your ex glow up immediately after the breakup. New outfit, new confidence and big success.
So yes, Kwesi has no regrets, officially and publicly. But when Sam Darnold takes the field in the Super Bowl, don’t be surprised if somewhere in Minnesota, a GM sighs deeply and flips his pillow over to the cool side.
After this press conference Kwesi Adofo-Mensah was fired by Vikings
