I think the media believes that the jury is still out until the Vikes win a playoff game. Although they sure jump on the Cowboys bandwagon as soon as they show a pulse.

I couldn’t remember a collapse in the Brad Childress era, so I started digging. Sorry Ted, but I found just the opposite of what you are hoping for… there aren’t any.

On October 30, 2006 Belichick came into the dome and passed all over our defense while grabbing the wrists of our offense and slapping us silly with our own hands; repeating, "Why are you hitting yourself? You should really stop hitting yourself. HAHAHA!"

After the game Childress said the Patriots had probably just given the league a blueprint for beating the Vikings. And that’s what kills me… they had, he knew it and he proceeded to do nothing about it the rest of the year but blame his players for not being able to execute his brilliant offense.

I copied and pasted that response from another post I made the other day, with a couple modifications, so it may not apply directly to this post.

if you don’t learn something new every day, whether it be about yourself, your spouse, your job, your friends, etc. that you are doing something wrong. That is what Childress has done up until this point. He has learned something new during or after every game or at least after a few games. To expect someone to come out and do everything well right away is foolish.

I’ve never been a fan of Brad Childress, but if my children showed half of the ability to learn from their mistakes and better themselves, i’d be thrilled to death. In case anyone else has noticed, the issue that Chilly had with clock management hasn’t really come up this season. Most of this can probably be attributed more to Favre than Chilly, but just like we’re all hoping that T-Jax can learn from Favre, maybe we can hope that Chilly also picks up a few pointers from ’ol Brett as well.

All in all, this franchise has finally come up with a front office that is willing to put nothing but the highest quality product on the field for the fans’ cunsumption, which I think, regardless of Favre retiring or unretiring may be the start of a team that could stick around the top of the league for a while, simply because the organization is committed to making it so!

but I recall in 2007 the Vikes were 8-6 and in control of their own playoff destiny. They had the Redskins at home on Sunday Night Football, lost that game, then lost the next week at Denver to finish at 8-8.

Do I think that will happen this year? No, I don’t.

While I find it just as easy to fall under the Favre-Childress-(7-1)-1st place spell as the next fan, I have to stop myself for a moment and think about the two seasons prior to this one. As we sit in a bye week and prepare for a 2nd half run that MAYend up in a long playoff run, it doesn’t sound that crazy to hear the front office talk about a contract extension for Chilly. Unless you fast forward to the end of the Favre era, whether it’s this year or next, and realize that we’re right back to Tavaris or a rookie. A hall of fame QB has made all these ALL PRO parts run like a well oiled machine, but what happens when he’s gone? Is it that far fetched to see the Vikes falling back to the pack.. .maybe even literally… with the loss of Favre. And even though it’s hard to see right now, can’t you just feel that pit come back to your stomach, and the anger about conservative play calling and blind faith in a D2 quarterback begin to boil inside. The agony of a 4-4 record when you know what kind of talent we have, doesn’t it all feel wrong? So while we keep roaring towards the postseason this year, maybe we should slow down the contract talks and maybe even let Childress go out in a blaze of glory with his man Favre