I totally agree. I think Jackson proved that even though he’s inconsistent, he does know the system and he’s capable of a good game. I think the Vikings would be better off having Jackson as an insurance policy behind Brett.

Jason – http://www.TheVikingShip.net

Don’t most teams have a starter, a backup, and a third string “project”? Kerry Collins, Vince Young, and whoever is third there? What’s the difference? Last year, Gus Frerotte, Tarvaris Jackson, and John David-Booty – no one was clamoring for a fourth quarterback. I don’t get it.

Yes, Favre is old, and he might get hurt, but you know what? So can anyone else. Keeping a fourth QB is a waste of a perfectly good roster spot.

Not that Favre is much of a teacher, but I imagine Jackson is picking something up from him, and for that matter Sage is probably as well.

We all know Favre is not going to be here very long, and the Vikes will be back at the drawing board when he leaves.

If a QB has to go, make it JDB. He is a huge question mark.

The first thoughtful argument for keeping 4 QBs on the Minnesota roster.

That said, I sincerely hope one of them gets traded. Just in case.

if the Vikes released JDB, what team would pick him up?
let him go through waivers, if no one picks JDB up, stash him on the practice squad, if he does, there will be 10 other QB’s of his type that will be released by the end of training camp. pick one of those up and stash him on the practice squad

Other position battles that are going down to the wire. Battle for the 5th receiver spot. Battle for the Nickel DB spot. Back-up Middle backer. Back up center. 3rd running back spot. TE. The list goes on and on. I understand where this argument comes from, but where else can we afford to cut from to make keeping 4 QB’s a viable option?

That most of those above mentioned battles will come down to whoever can help most on special teams. A 4th QB is not going to help on special teams. And I know we can’t sneak any of them to the practice squad…

We need to seriously consider a regular platoon system: Favre early in games and Jackson when he gets tired, throws too much, takes too many hits, etc. We need to preserve Favre’s body/arm for the playoffs and, hopefully, the Super Bowl.

If we’re smart about it, we may even have Favre around for 2+ years. This move by Chilly to limit his throws in practice is a good sign.

Incidentally, whenever Favre does stop playing, I do hope he stays on as a QB coach, O coordinator (he said he can coach this offense), or some other capacity. Let’s keep him around indefinitely and have him go into the HOF as a Viking!

The Chiefs’ starters were one of the worst teams in the NFL last year. Defensively, they did not improve that much in this offseason, and you’re getting excited about TJ beating their backups?

Childress trusted n00b Frerotte last year and apparently didn’t trust TJ with the full playbook in his 3rd season, so why would that be any different now? The only thing TJ has done consistently is carve up sub-par pass defenses (DET, ARI, NYG backups last year, preseason Chiefs’ backups this year). Those are not to be confused with flashes of true brilliance.

As for keeping Favre healthy, I fear that this will serve as a rationale for Chilly to keep the offense Vannily, and look where that has gotten us (short of Philly).

U do not platoon QBs….

Childress would say, “Yup, keeping four QBs, no one needs to worry,” or “Nope, one’s gotta go. Who? Stay tuned!” That’s the political answer he basically has to give. They don’t want to tip their hand to potential trade partners or to the QBs themselves.

There’s not enough practice snaps to keep 4 QBs. One of the QBs wouldn’t get any reps and would be worthless to the team. Better to trade one of them or get one of them “injured” and stashed away on IR.

how many people are suddenly saying we shouldn’t get rid of tjack after he posts a perfect rating.

wasn’t it just last week that sage was our starter and tjack was supposed to be looking over his shoulder in fear of being passed by booty on the depth chart?

Were probably just trying to get his timing down with receivers after missing most of camp. Man I am glad we did not have to worry about that. BUT WAIT

I looked at his salary and he is only making 600K a year, that is cheap for a sort of starting qb.

I rememeber watching a game vikes-rams and Jack Youngblood was playing with a broken leg and killing us. Every down he was sceaming through the line. Well Fran T got tired of it and throw the ball as hard as he could into Jacks face mask. The next play Jack came throught he line and they carried Fran off the field the next play Tommy Krammer was carted off with a concusion and Steve Dills took the field on the next series.

He did ok but I think everyone had thier jaw drop we were one hit from having no QB’s. I think it maby be a good thing to keep him and he’s cheap.

In regard to which of the four should be dropped…

“It will be John David Booty. The Vikings can’t get rid of Tarvaris Jackson after he threw for 202 yards in the game against Kansas City. He’s a better quarterback than Booty. It’s pretty evident with the signing of Favre that the Vikings are trying to win now and aren’t worrying about the future. Unless there is trade value for Jackson — which is unlikely, from what I hear — the Vikings will have to keep their best three quarterbacks: Favre, Jackson and Sage Rosenfels.”

Interesting that he basically says it’s a done deal that Booty will go. I tend to agree with the idea due to Favre’s injury risk, but also the fact that Jackson should likely get another shot at a starting gig next season (assuming Favre actually stays retired this time).