His record in Minnesota is 32-2.

This contract extension is about three months too early.

We have to ask the question: Does Brad Childress make this a better team?

IMHO… he does not. The talent he has put on the field is what is winning games, not his coaching or game time decisions.

And his record in Minnesota is 32-25. Hardly the type of record that would garner a contract extension with the talent we have.

Realistically, his record would be more like 43-14 if he had done what any smart coach would do and sign a quarterback worth his mettle. I mean, it took him three years to figure out what we all knew, that we could not win with Tjack. At least not this early in his development.

The fact that he put our team in the hands of a guy who even he said was a 3-4 year project in his first year tells me that he doesn’t have the decision making skills required to run a team.

I give him credit for helping build this team, but it is easy to stack a team when the owner is willing to spend the money.

he’s now 32-25

Take away Adrian Peterson, Chester Taylor, Brett Favre, Steve Hutchinson, Phil Loadholt, Bernard Berrian, Percy Harvin, Sidney Rice, Visanthe Shiancoe, Jeff Dugan, Naufahu Tahi, Ryan Longwell, Jared Allen, Ray Edwards, Jimmy Kennedy, Brian Robison, Cedric Griffin, Tyrell Johnson, Madieu Williams, Ben Leber, Benny Sapp, Hussain Abdullah, Kenny Onatolu, Asher Allen, and Chad Greenway, and what do you have? You have a team that is not that good. You have a team that probably can’t even put 11 men on the field on both offense or defense. This proves that Childress is overrated. I’d like to see him win with 8 players on the field!

Chilly-backers can say what they want about Chilly. The bottom line is if you take away all of the great players, and their improving play over the years, all you have left are a few backups, some holdovers from the Tice era, and some West Coast playbooks. Need I go on?

This post has been brought to you by sarcasm.

I don’t know that citing all the great players that the Vikings have, and giving them all credit while giving Chilly zero credit for their selection and coaching, is very fair or reasonable. The HC is part of the process in both cases, or why bother to have coaches at all?

There’s plenty of other criticisms on Chilly which are much more valid…

• His overly conservative play-calling
  
• His failure to adapt his vision and playbook to maximize the capabilities of the players
  
• His failure to obtain and train a franchise-quality QB when he’s supposed to be a QB guru
  
• His failure to build a solid secondary in 3 years of acquisitions
  
• His failure to meld the players into a real team rather than a collection of talented individuals (it took Favre to accomplish this)
  
• His beard and stewardess outfit

I’m sure there’s others that didn’t come to mind immediately, but those things, to me, are a heck of a lot more valid than saying he gets no credit for the personnel acquisitions and those guys would do great without him there.

I mostly disagree with his contract extension based on the timing. These aren’t minor considerations for an employee and employer, especially when this much money is at stake. That they’ve been going on for at least 3 months kinda irritates me. Chilly should have been putting 110% of his focus on the TEAM, and his JOB, during the season, rather than being distracted by contract negotiations. The Vikings 8-1 record is due more to the relatively easy schedule and the leadership/ability of Favre at the helm, than it is to Chilly’s head coaching. If Chilly was doing a better job, we could have been 9-0.

Only the end of the year’s result will tell whether or not Chilly really deserves this, and closing the door on other HC possibilities, this early, makes me think that something’s panicked Wilf.