You make the comment “the communication gap between them and the team is a somewhat troubling,” but you completely duck the hard question, if the Vikings should be telling them something, then … what exactly? It’s pretty obvious that Favre will be the starter if his surgery was effective — and won’t be a Viking at all if not. Nd no one knows now, nor will know for weeks, if it was effective. So is that what you want Childress to tell them “hey, we’re gonna dump you if we get the chance.” But what if the surgery doesn’t work & Favre is not there. Is that really a good thing that the Vikings tell them explicitly they would’ve dumped them, the only thing that kept them from doing it is they didn’t have a real chance?

I’m sorry, Childress is handling this very well from my perspective. Ideally you would not want this situation, but Favre had the injury & surgery, that creates uncertainty about his status, that is the reality. Pretending that situation doesn’t exist is silly. If you really think he should be doing it differently, then BE EXPLICIT what he should be doing instead, and why it would be better.

chilly does’nt owe them an explanation. I mean what else can he say at this point? I would think by now that everybody on the roster should realize that we will probably sign B.F. to be our starting qb this year if his shoulder/arm is healed, whether they like it or not. This is a buisness decision, nothing less, nothing more. Now our qb’s have every right to express their feelings about the situation but either way Sage makes 3 million this year and i don’t believe that t-jack has done much to complain.

I mean, honestly, how long does he think Favre’s going to be on the team? A year at most. And if he gets injured again, and Rosenfels is the second-string, then he’s starting games again. It’s not the end of his career just because Favre is coming in. If I’m not mistaken he’s signed a 3 year deal. Maybe it was 2. Either way, unless he’s afraid that Jackson is going to completely surpass him by watching from the bench this season, he still has a shot to start.

And no, Childress really doesn’t need to tell them anything. I don’t see it as troubling either, because what I think is happening is that Childress really doesn’t have any major update. The QBs have already seen/read/heard that Favre had surgery. Now they just have to wait. Use the time to get better, not worry about whether or not you’re starting. Neither one is seen as a solid starter in the league at this point. Just use this as motivation to work harder, don’t bitch about it.

Why do the Viking continues to let Childress be a mindless idot. Right now he is slowly destroying and harmony in the locker room. For an owner who says he wants a winning super bowl team I think he’s going about it the wrong way. Childress is once again showing his true colors its my way or the highway. He needs to be replaced. For any coach to win the needs the trust of his players. I think that is fade in Viking Country.

It seems as if the Vikings organization has forgotten the past and is therefore doomed to repeat it. For how many years from the early nineties through Culpepper’s breakout year or two and beyond did Minnesota chase down aging quarterbacks in the waning years of their careers in a desparate, and never successful attempt to win a Superbowl with a team that “just needed that franchise quarterback”? I’m asking because I don’t know the exact number off had but some of the names on the list include Randall Cunningham, Warren Moon, Jeff George (who was never really given the chance), Brad Johnson and Gus Ferrotte to name five in the last decade or so. Culpeper was the only legitimate quarterback the Vikings have drafted in the last decade or so who could have been the franchise QB the Vikes have been looking for but Daunte’s injuries prevented that from happening. So instead of cutting their loses and selling out to acquire the next, young, future quarterback of the franchise, the Vikings went back to shoveling cash to different old guys year after year. I was hoping that after wasting year after year of watching a “veteran quarterback” whose job it was to “manage the game” turn out losing season after losing season, the Vikings may have finally realized that unless you somehow land a Jay Cutler type in free agency, scouring NFL retirement homes and other teams waste bins of former pro-bowl talented quarterbacks to resurrect your franchise simply IS NOT the way to have continued success in the NFL.

That brings us to the present and the Vikings using a second round pick on T. Jackson because he reminded Brad Childress of a young McNabb. Nice compliment to a young player, good overall skill set in Jackson and he even had some bench time to learn the offense and become familiar with the system. The guy waits, gets a chance, shows a definite upside but doesn’t take the Vikings to the Superbowl in his first two seasons as a PART TIME starter so now he’s a bust and the Vikings need to bail on Jackson to chase down another formerly great quarterback who is well past his prime? How about Joe Montana going to the Chiefs? They won the Superbowl in one year with that mega move right? Not even close. If Brad Childress still feels he has a McNabb caliber quarterback in the making with Jackson, the only way he is going to develop into that quarterback is on the field, not year after year on the bench watching a guy ten to fifteen years his senior going for one last shot at the ultimate prize in football.

The point here is simple; the Vikings need to become the team that drafts a player to be the guy and then have the patience to let him become that guy. I believe that with the improved receiving corps, the third season of AP and a defense that has been “Superbowl caliber” for the last four or five years, T. Jackson can, with a full, 16 game season under his belt, highs and lows being taken with grace and humility by the organization, be the guy the Vikings are looking for. Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl with a great defensive team and without AP in the backfield.

I just want to throw out two names as food for thought: Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady. Both of these now Franchise quarterbacks won their first Super Bowls without being the focal point of their teams after taking over for veteran quarterbacks who injured themselves out of the line-up. Credit where it is due for winning of course granted, but check out the archives and look at the numbers these multiple ring wearing quarterbacks put up in their first two Super Bowl wins. I think Brady’s QB rating was in the seventies or low eighties. He did have that drive, but I’m sure he didn’t gain the poise and confidence to orchestrate that drive because the Patriots held the return of Bledsoe over his head like an oversized cartoon anvil. Brad Childress and the Vikings organization as a whole need to stop doing exactly that to T. Jack, drop the courting of Favre and tell T. Jack that if he wins the job in training camp, the job is his for the entire season. Step two is simple; take all the talent you have acquired on offense, take what works in the current system and design an entire scheme devoted to spreading the ball to: Adrian Peterson, V. Shiancoe, B. Berrian, Percy Harvin, Chester Taylor and Sidney Rice (if healthy) playing to the strengths of a young, live armed quarterback who has enough mobility to keep plays alive. Despite the fact that besides AP, none of the other players mentioned are in the top five, maybe top ten for a couple, players at their postion, there is enough offensive talent on this team to win a Super Bowl, this year, without Farve. And in case the Vikings want to be a contender for more than one year, how about forgetting the pursuit of players with one year or less left in their football careers. Unless you think the Patriots would have been better off sticking with Bledsoe when Brady struggled at times as a rookie. Then we might as well give Rich Gannon a call. He was a Viking once and after several years in the booth, I bet his arm is as strong as ever.