The Minnesota Vikings are fresh off a 9-8 season. It may have ended with a high note and a five-game winning streak, but there’s a reason why the Vikings lost eight games.
Minnesota had stretches of very bad football, and at one point in 2025, it wasn’t an overstatement to say the team was among the worst in the entire league. Several factors contributed to that slump, including injuries, poor effort from the players, and ineffective coaching.
There has already been speculation about which players will be shown the door this offseason, but several Vikings coaches have also earned their walking papers.