Apparently in his post-game press conference, Favre said Childress wanted to take him out in the 3rd quarter because of the hits he was taking. Favre refused. Childress didn’t talk about it.

Expect the media to blow this completely out of proportion.

You are all starting to sound like packer fans…its not Brett’s fault, its everyone elses’s fault…

I mean everyone!

However, he also said that he felt he could try harder, to turn it around and win the game.

I give Favre a lot of credit for not being a damned quitter. For not giving up and whining and crying about it, he took responsibility for his part. But sometimes they have your number and you need to give it a break.

But this was Chilly’s decision to make and we’ll never know for sure if it would have helped, or not. Chilly failed to be the Head Coach.

What could have been the outcome? The Panther’s weren’t game-planning for a highly mobile QB like Jackson, Peppers would have been at least partially nullified. Things could have been quite different.

I think Favre needs to learn when to back down and accept that he doesn’t run the team, and Chilly needs to dig deep, find a ball, and make his decisions stick.

Benching Favre was not the answer. Blocking Peppers was the answer and Chilly never adressed it.. Replacing McKinnie was not the answer, unless he was hurt. Putting Kleinsasser over there to help was the answer….That was clear, very clear to see for everyone, except Chilly

Sure we might have gone 3-and-out, 4 or 5-and-out (um… actually we did!), but we would have taken some time off the clock and made sure our D stayed fresh enough to play. We held them to 6 points for 3 quarters. If each possession had used up 3 mins more then that’s a final score.

More importantly, we WOULD have eventually found success, then the more open intermediate stuff would have been there, and we would have had the rythym to execute. This was a great opportunity to re-establish our run game and we failed because we kept trying to force a higher skilled finesse scheme into a smash-mouth game.

That Chilly can’t enforce a decision and that Favre isn’t willing give someone else a chance to play, even a few series, at this point in his career.

I hope they talk it out this week and decide who the coach is going to be.

I was quite aware that the wheels of this dream season might be a loose lug-nut from popping off…but that’s just from being burned over the decades as a fan o’ the Vikes.

Nevertheless, it has been a great season – one of the best! We have a really entertaining team this year, on both sides of the ball. And as an added relief, Longwell missed a FG yesterday -and he’d been soooo amazingly accurate, I really wanted him to miss one late in the regular season…to get that monkey out of the way for the playoffs.

I was really interested in the Cards game…(up into the 3rd) if only to see if this squad could play from behind. Yesterday seemed to show a lack of understanding in how to play in a close game. Those are two things that’ll get tested p.d.q. in the playoffs.

That said, we’ve got a very dangerous team this year. I’m not worried about beats from Pitt, AZ, and Carolina…and it’s an amazing time to be a fan.

Seriously lets start with the fact that Chilly hired a 40 year old experienced QB who has played remarkably well all year. These men are more equal than a 23 year old rookie and a 50 year old coach. If I’m chilly I am working with Brett, not trying to Jam something down his throat.

Chilly " Hey Brett its cold and our O-Line is not going to get better tonight. You can get hurt out there. We already have the division locked. Lets let T-Jax run around and maybe move the ball that way"

Brett " Coach, This game is still important to this team. I think I know how to win this game. I’m playing unless you demand otherwise"

I really want to thank Chilly for not destroying the relationship that he has with Brett. This team would not be 11-3 without him.