{"id":40859,"date":"2026-02-02T17:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/1-drake-maye-injury-how-serious-is-it-and-did-sam-darnolds-success-help-spark-the-vikings-gm-firing-2-how-bad-is-drake-mayes-injury-plus-did-sam-darnold\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:25:52","slug":"1-drake-maye-injury-how-serious-is-it-and-did-sam-darnolds-success-help-spark-the-vikings-gm-firing-2-how-bad-is-drake-mayes-injury-plus-did-sam-darnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/1-drake-maye-injury-how-serious-is-it-and-did-sam-darnolds-success-help-spark-the-vikings-gm-firing-2-how-bad-is-drake-mayes-injury-plus-did-sam-darnold\/","title":{"rendered":"1) Drake Maye Injury: How Serious Is It\u2014and Did Sam Darnold\u2019s Success Help Spark the Vikings\u2019 GM Firing?  \n\n2) How Bad Is Drake Maye\u2019s Injury? Plus: Did Sam Darnold\u2019s Hot Streak Push the Vikings to Fire Their GM?  \n\n3) Drake Maye\u2019s Injury \u2014 How Severe? And Was Sam Darnold\u2019s Success a Factor in the Vikings\u2019 GM Ouster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for Inside Coverage<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Sports hosts Andrew Siciliano and Frank Schwab break down reports that Drake Maye missed practice ahead of the New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl LX matchup. They also debate whether Sam Darnold\u2019s Super Bowl appearance had any influence on the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 decision to fire GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah \u2014 all covered on today\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Episode markers:<br \/>\n&#8211; (00:45) \u2014 Greetings from San Francisco<br \/>\n&#8211; (06:35) \u2014 Drake Maye\u2019s shoulder issue<br \/>\n&#8211; (12:00) \u2014 Vikings part ways with GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah<br \/>\n&#8211; (22:00) \u2014 Is San Francisco a good Super Bowl host city?<br \/>\n&#8211; (26:15) \u2014 Raiders hire HC Clint Kubiak; Cardinals hire HC Mike LaFleur<br \/>\n&#8211; (36:30) \u2014 Most and least appealing coaching hires<br \/>\n&#8211; (38:55) \u2014 Rams extend GM Les Snead and HC Sean McVay<br \/>\n&#8211; (48:10) \u2014 49ers bring in DC Raheem Morris<br \/>\n&#8211; (51:20) \u2014 One more thing<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode on YouTube. For more from the Yahoo Sports podcast network, visit https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj or search for Yahoo Sports Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Fan Take: These developments matter because they touch both immediate playoff implications (player health and availability) and longer-term franchise direction (front-office and coaching changes) that shape competitive balance. Fans should pay attention \u2014 the ripple effects of these personnel moves and injury updates can alter team strategies, draft plans, and the overall landscape of the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for Inside Coverage Yahoo Sports hosts Andrew Siciliano and Frank Schwab break down reports that Drake Maye missed practice ahead of the New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl LX matchup. They also debate whether Sam Darnold\u2019s Super Bowl appearance had any influence on the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 decision to fire GM Kwesi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[859],"tags":[860],"class_list":{"0":"post-40859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}