So the details i tracked down are this.
Vijings offered up both 2024 1st rounders that wound up being Jjmac Dallas turner. + There 2025 1st rounder wich wound up being the lg Jackson.
+ Addnl pick swaps that at 1st were in favor of the vikings, but stoll being negotiated to finalize the deal.

Imo. Jackson in 2025 is the only negative retrospect on giving away 3- #1 picks.
Addnl. When that trade runor was fliating back in 2024. I didnt believe in Drake Maye. I expected far more games where he struggled,like vs denver last weekend. Than the overwhelming great play produced inside the pats qb's often dominant performance we witnessed as he cruised through a hisorically sodt 2025 schedule.

Still- despite some late regression from the young qb. Eithout a doubt. I was dead wrong on Mr. Maye. By all appearances. The kid is going to grow into a top 10 qb real soon. If not already there. With a very strong possibilty of becoming " the man" in a not too distant future. They experience he has gained in year 2? OH YEAH! What the article im going to paste suggests. That the deal with the pats was killed 100% by one guy.
Kwesi. Who overode an adamant KOC. Wants adopted by this fan base? As the absolute truth instead of varying degrees of true/ maybe.
Kwesi will join Les Steckle and Christian Ponder as the 3 fk HEADS atop the Mount Rushmore style
granite shrine of vikings that will never get served a bar dronk in minnapolis the remainder of their lives. For 1 big reason. If recognized in a bar? Those guys would be DOA.

FOCHING KWESI! Lol- get outta town fast. The lynch mob is coming. Right behind that mob is a medevial clan of horned warriors carrying torches, spears the feared dane axe & brutal morning star (multi spiked club). Haha- pardon the drama of hyperbole.

Heres the article-
Accountability vomes for Mensa!
https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-vikings/drake-maye-cost-kewsi-adofo-mensah-job/

The bigger issue in all of this. It details the actual problem the vikings have had the entire duration of wilf ownership.
A coach is held accountable for winning on game day. It has to be that way. However. If his is the desk where accountability roosts?
Then the GM has to defer to the hc on final say in such moments. That must be the dynamic. Especially bc. The gm is ofyen not very popular with players. In essence. He is HR, paymaster the face of oenership inside disagreements. The HC on the other hand. Makes or breaks that lockeroom. He is the face of ownership at all the other moments a club goes through. From meal time to game day. Practices, team meetings. Travel to & from battle. The half time moment and the 4th qtr crunch. The pkayers need the hc gull support, snd the hc needs the players united loyalty. The coaching staff is the pointman for preparing and adjusting his for the actual moment of play.
That ciaching staff should be hand picking the guys the want. And in moments like " is it too high a price?" The gm has to, with only brief debate. Cave & give that coach the bed he wants in which to lay. The opposite? A gm with final say? Only once a gm has earned the right via duccess & experience is paired with lower esteemed & experienced hc. Even then. Once that hc proves astute. The owner or team prez has to step in and reassign the pecking order. And the gm has to be made aware of this. It has to be the design of yeam structure.

Koc was fvcked by kwesi. Just as zim was fvcked by slick before the recent regime. No perenial champs does it diferently with few exceptions.

Im sure there are times. The hc is ambivalent on the exact choice in the 5th round. At that point. Hes trusting his gm. - just find me a capable contributor that can fit in. Heck. Tennesse dumped Vrabel over such a similar power struggle. Vrabel probably didnt care at that point. He had been undermined. It was noticeable in his final season with the titans. Vrabels teams were famous for always playing hard for big mike. Not that final year. And look at the vikings this past year. As a team they now showed. Mailed in more than 1 game. Early, when winning a game mattered to remain a hunter.

We have to hope. Now. The wilfs recognize the issue. They always wanted to run the team like Kraft ran the pats. That triangle of authority.
Even then.bellucheck always got final say. Cool idea that triangle. 3 leaders with equal power. Mostly the coach is swayed to agreeing when at first unconvinced. But on those handful of really big long reaching decisions. Like- chosing Kirko over keenum. And Zim was adamant. Or chosing JJ over Maye when koc was adamant. When belicheck was afamant that brady not bledsoe was the guy going forward bill hoody got his way. The rest is legend. For Bill back then? I believe the difference wasnt that Brady was better or worse. It was the price difference of the 2qb's. And like zim in minnesota. The decision on which qb wasnt going to create very much difference on how the offense produced. But the cap result would require some of his defense projects coming in to stardom wouldnt be affordable inside a year or 2.

You have to give the coach. The team. He believes he coach to the best result. Not the team an owner or gm sees as best when added up on a spreadsheet. Imagine a building foreman. Where a superintendent decides. I get more kick backs purchasing the hammer. But the foreman knows. The current hammer is the most productive. And the new one is less ergonomic. Tires out the carpenters. Leads to injuries & lost time.

Ive been in thise goofy type decisions. As a foreman or lead. Moral suffers. Malcontent grows and pride declines. The grunts feel their value isnt a priority. That a few steps away from being the #1 in the biz one year. Facing bankruptcy a few years later. Its like trump claiming great economy. The grunts know the truth. The greatest press agent can spin enough bullshit no matter how earnest the effort the grunts know!
" Hey everybody look! The emperor is naked".