Jay Glazer snaps after reporter questions motives of Kevin OConnell trade report

Don’t question the timing of Jay Glazer’s reporting.During the “FOX NFL Sunday” pregame show airing before Week 18 on Jan.5, insider Jay Glazer surprisingly reported that Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell had been drawing trade interest.Some had questions about the timing of the report while Minnesota prepared to battle the Lions for the division title and NFC’s No.

1 seed that night.After the Vikings actually extended O’Connell on Tuesday, NFL aggregator Ari Meirov of The 33rd Team — the same company led by ex-Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum that has been contracted to help the Jets find their next head coach — questioned the timeline and seemingly Glazer’s intention.“I have so many questions about the Kevin O’Connell trade story that dropped on the morning of Week 18,” Meirov posted on X.“While I’m sure teams were interested in trading for him, the timing couldn’t have been worse for the #Vikings, given they were playing for the No.

1 seed that night.”The Vikings would collapse from that point forward, losing to the Lions, 31-9, missing out on a first-round bye, and following that up with an equally embarrassing 27-9 playoff loss to the Rams in the wild-card game.Glazer, who has worked as a studio analyst and reporter for FOX since 2004, quote tweeted Meirov’s post and offered a fiery response to anyone alleging nefarious tactics with his timing.“Welp, the timing was because that is when our show airs Fox NFL SUNDAY.Not Wednesday or Thursday.

SUNDAY,” Glazer wrote.“Every year for probably the last 15 years the same weekend I do my ANNUAL coaching carousel segment and usually drop nuggets that day that aren’t known.

I don’t work for Twitter, I work for FOX so I wait til Sunday to drop news.I hold news very often to use on FOX only.”He added: “Did my job reporting what was going on behind the scenes in some of these searches.

This narrative that I reported it to screw the Vikings when they were going to pl...