Latest news on Minnesota Vikings general manager search raises a major red flag for their future

It is always possible that the Wilfs will reconsider that approach, but everything known about their search indicates they envision a first-time general manager pairing with an existing staff. Even if they ultimately choose Brzezinski — the only known candidate without a classic scouting background — the structure would preserve much of the current scouting department. It also wouldn’t infringe on the power O’Connell and his staff accumulated during Adofo-Mensah’s tenure and while Brzezinski served as interim general manager.

ESPN’s Kevin Seifert

Read these words carefully: pairing a first-time general manager with an existing staff. Do they mean keeping the entirety of the scouting staff and personnel department? Seifert made that case for hiring Brzezinski, and forcing a new general manager to keep the incumbent staff would be a terrible process.

We know that Adofo-Mensah has been scapegoated for all of the bad things that have happened over the last four years. It also said the decision to fire him was a strong signal that the date is good, but the decision maker was the only issue. Forcing an external candidate to keep everyone in place would be a brutal decision that could ruin the future of this franchise.

Only time will tell how the Vikings go about pursuing this, but there is real concern.