Chilly Still Deciding on Friday's Starter

Chilly thinks he is sooooo clever.

The guy does the right things, at the wrong times.

I voted for Sage. I want to see him with the first team.

I want to see if Sage can run the offense. I don’t want Chilly starting Tjack just because he has his career on the line.

I certainly want Tjack to figure it out. But I also want this team to win. Let the best man win (go tjack).

Is that he’s still not sure if he even has bona fide choices for starter. I certainly feel that way, it’d be kinda a coin toss for me.

It’s the first game of the preseason. If he would have come out and said one or the other, that’s great, but I really don’t care either way. It doesn’t matter either way, so who cares who it is? Definitely nothing to get anyone’s panties in a bunch.

If it were the season opener, then yeah, of course there would be problems. But two weeks after training camp before the first preseason game? Definitely not a problem.

is because he the competition hasn’t actually been won out-right by either of these guys. Which, if we go by what we know of both T-Jack and Sage, is consistent with the rest of their careers. Maybe if one of them played like they deserved the job, it’d be a different situation.

If Childress names a “starter” today it’s’ going to be reported by every outlet that covers the Vikings that said “starter” is winning the quarterback battle, with the sub story of, can the other QB possibly catch up, which inevitably leads to questions of whether Chilli will be traveling down to Mississippi on bended knee begging Favre to come to Mankato and show these punks how to “sling it” Favre style.

There’s no reason to name one a starter and feed that fire since they’ll be getting equal reps anyway. So settle down and wait 2 more days for some purple and gold football.

We haven’t had a QB with a football players mind since Fran folks. Tommy, Rich, Warren and Brad were close but……………………………………………………………………………..

Tommy liked the sauce.
Rich was a late bloomer.
Warrens best days were behind him.
Brad in his later years had a noodle arm.

It’s easy to question what I posted but Daunte, Randall and the legion of others were poor decision makers and ballhandlers IMO.

Mort

Tavaris, if he is healthy will be starting week one. Sage has been dissappointing in training camp reports from Mankato also say he has nowhere near the arm strength Jackson does.

…is usually stupid.

Opponents are expecting a QB to pass sometimes, to certain receivers certain s of the time, and to run certain plays. Those things are true regardless of which QB starts about 99 of the time (Schaub or Vick/Collins or Young/Gannon or Grbac would have been different enough, but still would not have required an extra day of preparation for either QB. It doesn’t take long to plan for more rushing plays if a backup starts or more scrambles or to prepare for an abbreviated and watered-down playbook after doing the normal amount of homework.

The more likely outcome is that players get agitated with the seemingly indecisive coaching staff while the QBs never have a chance to feel comfortable (which is always played up in the media even though I doubt that it’s much of a factor).

Way too much is made of this, in my humble opinion. It just seems paranoid and ego stroking on Chilly’s part to me.

already let the 2 QB’s know who the starter will be. Why should he have to tell the other team and the fans?

Chilly picks the one who deserves the job( Sage Rosenfels ), and the one that did better in training camp( Sage Rosenfels ) then I don’t care for the preseason games.

Both players should get an opportunity to start in the preseason.

As a result of that, I’m thinking Sage should have a chance to start this first preseason game. Why would I say something like that, you ask?

First, we already have an idea what Tarvaris can do. We’ve been force fed his quarterbacking for the past two seasons and change by Chilly, so there’s already a known quantity there.

Second, it lets us see Sage in live action with the first team defense. There’s been talk about his performance and ability at camp, and this would give us a chance to see if it does or doesn’t translate to gametime situations.

Third, it shows us that this actually is an open competition. In the past, Childress has done very little to convince folks outside of the organization that whoever goes against Tarvaris actually had a shot of obtaining the starting quarterback spot… Instead, it has seemed more like an “open” “competition” with the winner being determined before it even starts.

I worry that the same thing is happening this year, that Childress has already concluded that Tarvaris will start, and this notion of a competition is merely lip service in an attempt to placate Sage. Bobby Wade hasn’t done anything to convince us otherwise.

Anyway, while both QBs should have a shot to start this preseason, I think Sage should be the guy for the first game. At least then, we’ll have the illusion that this might actually be a competition.