ESPN finally says Something I Agree with?... Thats the 4th Sign of the Apocalypse!

Childress definitely has done a PHENOMENAL job of finding and bringing talent to this team. Granted, his draft of TJack was a bit questionable- but I still say TJack was underdeveloped, and pushed to start way too soon to let him really be ready. But then again, I feel that Childress is a horrible coach for a QB to work with, and he can’t develop any worth a damn, so this in turn is a fallback on him.

I would absolutely love nothing more than to see Childress retain a job with the Vikings in the FO, in some capacity. At least to maintain that very high level of drafting and acquiring talent that he has shown. But as far as a head coach, and really as a leader for his team (as to some extent a head coach MUST be, ala the Patriots- Tom Brady might be quite the leader, but everyone knows and respects the fact that at the end of the day, ol’ Billy’s the unquestioned boss of it all), I find his skills very questionable, and worse, questionable on a CONSISTENT basis. I don’t see any real evolution in him as a coach season-to-season.

The fact that we’ve improved under him as a head coach every single season (well, up till this one, sadly… even at some miracle best we can only tie last season, and the realists here know that ain’t happening) is to me more of a reflection of his ability to constantly pump this team with talent. Every year he’s added more and more and more, and it’s given us more and more and more wins. Our defense AND our offense has surged under him, to me, because of this single fact- not because he himself leads it, but because he BUILT it.

Let’s see, as unlikely as it is, rather than outright firing the guy, if we can’t keep him in some capacity so that he can continue this trend… but then, too, somehow replace him as the Head Coach. I really like Frazier for the job- a.) we won’t lose him, as becomes increasingly likely with every offseason, and b.) I just outright think he’d do well with the job, assuming he gets a better Offensive Coordinator.

he picked up visante shiancoe and jared allen through trades and free agent pickups.

Heck one game I was nailing the plays left and right my buddy at the bar was just looking at me like I had grown a second head.

Second his time management is attrocious.

Third his leadership abilities seem to be severely lacking. Blaming players is a no no. This is pretty much common sense, even as a manager I know better than to blame my personell in public. It makes everyone look bad including yourself. You talk to them in person, you fix the problem or you fire them. That’s how it should be done.

He needs to tighten up the team. AD not coming to camp for AD day? Favre debacle. Other than the defense it didn’t seem like anyone was taking training camp seriously. Oh and I don’t even want to get into Rice. If he knew Rice had a condition and what it was. He should have known the recovery time on the surgery and made damn sure that Rice was getting better by the time the surgery could be done and still allowed Rice to start the season.

Penalties. Sloppiness, TJ, there are a slew of things I can point out that show Childress is not an excellent head coach. The team he has built around him helps to hide it, but in the end his inadequacies leak through (12 man on the field anyone?) Time out because we can’t figure out what to do on an extra point?

Clock management- we have been okay

Clock management-agreee

Player management-hes only having problems with brett favre and daunte culpepper, he brought in jared allen and harvin who had character issues, guess what, they have become model citizen, fixed the love boat incident. Hes not positional coach how is he supposed to teach a DL or OL to play better cmonnnn

Predictable play calling-thats the offensive coordinator job

I dont understandd, all the blogs on DN were saying that refs screwed us over?? Childeress wrong in blaming the refs, thats hyporcritcal. Refs made mistakes and it was childerss opinion. The quarterback play was horrible, are you saying it wasnt? Childeress has done an overall good job, what is his record? he has improved 2 games each year. Its still early in the season relax, if he beats belichik, i know everybody is going to jump on his bandwagon. Lets wait till the end of year to make decisions on the coach.

“Firing the Coach” is always the solution when good teams struggle. Sometimes good teams just struggle and firing the coach will only make things worse. Shake things up by setting Favre or someone else or having a closed door meeting and talking very frank with each other clearing the air type of thing that is the kind of stuff that might help but firing Chilly will only make a bad situation worse.

Not time to panic this is the Vikings this is what we do, for 50 years now. I have been around for 80% of them and I have learned to live with it.

I am afraid that the Vikings will only ever be good enough to break my heart. But what a ride until then.

Don’t ruin this for me. I’ve been waiting YEARS to have everyone calling for Childress’s head. Just because some of the arguments aren’t correct, and it may be a totally insane idea to do it, still give me a couple of days to revel in the Childress hate.

Thank you very much have a nice day, please drive through.

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