End of story.

Those that don’t like it can go talk to Chilly!

Favre gives the Vikings the best chance to win each and every game, including Super Bowl XLIV!

Just typical ESPN trying drum up ratings. And people wonder why I dont have cable or satellite and just rather go to the bar during the season here in NM to watch the Vikes, less BS to listen too.

Yes, now that Favre has signed, both Jackson and Rosenfels have looked fairly good, and the QB problem for the Minnesota Vikings may have been addressed significantly (or even solved), “some people” will look around for the next Viking roster weakness to write or talk about in their daily little blurbs and (OMG!) —to their horror, there isn’t one!!!

You mean the Vikings might actually stomp the (please fill in the shocked reporter’s favorite NFL football team here)?

By golly, in that case, the reporter has to take matters into his/her own hands and create such a weakness.

How about a bloody civil war, a mutiny, or shall we call it a locker room dissention? Yep, the Vikings must be dumb enough to fall for such propaganda techniques (they hope). Let’s generate some dissention in the Viking camp with a few quick articles to lead them all astray. It worked in the old Soviet U… er…. um…, hey wait. I guess it didn’t work, did it?)

Nice try, Comrade Adam. (..and I’m being sarcastically generous here in my praise.)

Anyone else notice that these are all “NFL” sources, none of them are actually described as “Viking” sources, someone who actually has access to this locker room that they all claim to know what’s going on inside of?

{scratches head}

But what does Adrian Peterson know about what’s going on inside the Viking locker room. Obviously not as much as Adam Schefter

Pro Bowl running back Adrian Peterson , who is friends with Jackson, seemed genuinely surprised when told of the reports about division in the locker room. “That’s something new to me,” Peterson said. “I’m not sensing nothing like that at all. I don’t know where that came from. That’s news to me.”

See this is exactly why schefters dumb ass got kicked off NFL network, cuz of B.S. stories like that. look i am sure ther are players pissed that favre is there, but those are primarily backups and rookies trying to juice him up im sure, since he played so well in the last game, those toads wont even be there when we cut to 53. But if it is really ray leading the charge the onky thing i could think of is that he wants t-jack beacause it gives ray more oppurtunities to be on the field with all the 3 and outs, thus increasing his stats.

It probably consists of 3-4 people, tops:

1] Ray Edwards
2] Sidney Rice
3] Tarvaris Jackson
4] Sage Rosenfels
5] JD Booty

And odds are, at least one or two of them won’t be on the team anyway. The two questions to be asked after this article:

• Who is playing this Monday Night on MNF?
• What network airs MNF?

Just chiming in to say I can empathise with your team’s current perdicament, without some T.O. or Mike Vick controversy this is the new chew toy for the msm to lock on to until the season starts. Do not lose hope, if my team struggles this year it will be T.O. central again in dallas and farve just needs to have a few good games to get the msm back on his side anyway. My dream scenario is for vick to look terrible thus making the iggles the focus of the nfl circus attention; it would be a win-win for our respective teams. A T.O. meltdown would also have the same affect, so there is a little silver lining for your team and if it happens early enough then your team can just stick to focusing on football instead of those nasty anonomous sources.

For now, though, Schefter’s hyping this thing up in an effort to attract attention. And it’s working. All he needed to do was find a couple of anonymous sources willing to say what he wanted them to say.

You also said this before:

The Favre thing is over, even if folks like Glazer are still relying on him to draw attention to their articles.

I’m not saying, I’m just saying.

Commence the hatred!

I never liked the idea of bringing Brett in after camp, but like many of us stated in past posts, we knew this would happen. I am sure some players knew it and I am pretty sure it was scripted all along. At 1st I thought maybe all the players knew and were instructed to keep it hush-hush but from the reaction of T-Jax and Rosenfelds interviews, it did not seem to be the case.
Do some players view a guy coming in after camp in a negative manner? Sure. If a couple are spouting off they need to shut up. They are the ones promoting disention. So now BSPN picks up on that and reports the whole locker room is in revolt.
Chilly, or better yet Jared, needs to get on the podium and tell some of the press where they stand and I would hope that means we are united for one purpose and that is to win a Super Bowl. Chilly needs to state “The best QB will play, but for now we are going with BF. If there is need to change, we will”
We have seen T-Jax play one good game and Rosenfelds play one good game. They are definitely disappointed but it is not like they brought in Jeff Garcia-it is Brett Favre! Which guy will go above and beyond and get better? They are going to give a fuure Hall of Famer the helm hands down! Deal with it, play like this is really it by working hard, shut your mouth and collect your paycheck.
I really think if Brett fails he will be pulled and one of these guys will take over and it will be the guy that has risen above personal adversity in this drama and gets better.
If not, you can bet this is a one year gig (despite a 2 year contract). Take advantage of it. Pick the guys mind and be ready to play.
Someone thought Sidney was complaining. I doubt it. I think he has looked like the WR I always thought he could become in this pre-season. His routes are better and just getting used to the rockets BF tosses could just be what the doctor ordered for him.
Let’s see what happens on Monday night. It may shut BSPN up (I hope).
*Oh man! As I am writing BSPN is on in the background making this there lead introduction! Damage control NOW Vikings brass.
Shefter is playing what he said down then builds up the controversy in the next sentence. What a boner brain!
I paused the TV on a Chilly quote about what he told the other QB’s “I don’t expect those guys to like it. But I expect them to deal with it and go forward. By and large, that is what has happened.” He said he told this to Tavaris and he came back and played well. That benefits him and us.
So by and large, if this makes T-Jax and Copter better, then maybe it is a good thing.

Let’s say every word out of Schefter’s mouth is completely true. According to him, there are some people that are behind Sage, and some behind T-Jax. So, regardless of Favre, there would still be a “schism” in the locker room. The story just becomes ESPN headline worthy when Lord Favre’s name is in the mix.

Let me know when Edwards pimpslaps Brett in the locker room and then I’ll perk my ears up.

Thank god for local journalism.

The Pioneer Press offered 13 veterans (including 9 starters) anonymity in order to find out their thoughts, and all of them echoed Chilly’s comments—it’s nothing against Tarvaris personally, but Favre offers some things that this team could use, and if you have the chance to get that then you do it.

This is my favorite quote from Pat Williams, who volunteered to be quoted on the record:

On his first day as a Viking, Favre expressed concern to Williams about how the former Packers quarterback would be welcomed in the locker room, Williams said.

The defensive tackle recalled that same uncertainty when he joined the Vikings in 2005.

“I told him to be himself,” Williams said. " ‘We all got your back.’ "

If anyone said anything, Williams suggested it might have been one of the team’s younger players.

“The young players get caught up, and some of the young guys don’t know (expletive),” Williams said. "You have a role, and you have to accept it.

“I’m one of the best run stoppers in the league. I accept that role,” Williams said, “and I don’t complain about nothing.”

Williams said he didn’t think it was necessary to address the reports with his teammates.

“We don’t have anything to talk about,” he said, "because we all understand. If there’s a good player, we’re going to get him. Brett was one of the best, and he could help our team.

“We got a strong core, and we will all stick together.”

I love Pat Williams.

pictures of my camp visit. Can’t figure out how to paste them to a blog. The new picture is with Percy and me.
Thanks for the nice notes from ya’ll. My second visit wasn’t as eventful as i had to drop a friend off at the PGA championship and got there late.

Through “anonymous” sources, ESPN reports a "schism" regarding your future employment as a “sports reporter.” The anonymous source says the NFL Network and ESPN are collaborating on shipping you to NFL Europe since you obviously have a knack for reporting on benign, little-known, useless, and basically anonymous people…good luck with that!

Maybe Scheff should try getting a REAL job? Because reporting the FACTS is NOT his forte’…..Let’s just get on with football and leave the hype be,ok?

Sounds obvious, but these 2009 Vikings are more of a real, whole team than any group of Vikings I’ve seen since the ‘70s. I’m going by what I’m seeing of how they behave during the game, on the sidelines; there’s no prima dons in the group. Favre might have that rep, and sure he’s earned a lot of respect, but he wasn’t acting stand-offish or ‘know-it-all’, he was working with the other guys even during the Chiefs game. I add what I’m seeing to Citrus’ report from camp, and it’s adding up to a really special group of players for me. As much as I hate to get too caught up with individuals, I’m starting to really like this particular Purple crew.

I don’t think it’s worth paying too much attention to the media hype. Now that Favre’s actually shown up at camp, they have nothing much else to talk about, so they have to invent and magnify possible problems.

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_13212029?source=rss

Be quickly replaced by TJack.

Fact is: a qb that has been working with the team for so many years needs a time to find his niche, and exploit that. Minnesota’s running game has been dominant for the past few years, which leaves little room for a scrambling qb (since D’s are always planning against the run). TJack has the cuts to make it interesting by throwing longer passes and potentially throwing in some QB sneaks, post options which will only bait defenses in the blocking short coverage.

I think he’s the guy, although Favre has a record of passing that can’t be argued. I would go with TJack.

who couldn’t see this coming? now that farve actually signed with the vikes, they had to keep the story going some how. what better way than to start some controversy. other wise there meaning less jobs,would be truly meaning less!

and they better keep him in the entire half or more to catch up and show what he really has left.