In Defense of Brad Childress-my good friend
Yes I'm back. The Moss circus and the cries of newly hatching Chilly haters has lured me out of retirement.
With this recent history lesson from our editor Ted Glover. I thought I'd look back to a little more recent history also from our own Ted Glover.
All I want to know is how is the Childress this year different from the Childress of last year? One year he's a mastermind that had assembled the players to make his KAO blossom into a potent bouquet of offensive firepower. Now he's an incompetent dictator? All he had to do was shoot a commercial to tell you that he did the right thing all the time and people believed it?
Last year when anyone pointed out how Chilly was an underachiever with all the talent he had at his disposal it was a form of heresy. On KFAN Dan Barreiro branded them "the Chilly haters" that would never be satisfied. Sludge immediately dismissed them from Vikings fanline as irrational. The vast majority claimed he had earned that contract extension. Two more wins each year, they exclaimed. He personally found and drafted Peterson and Harvin then negotiated contracts with Hutch and Jared Allen apparently with no help from Messieurs Spielman or Studwell and no help from an owner willing to spend money.
That is the frustrating thing. The squandered opportunity we had as fans. With an owner willing to spend the money to put a good product on the field and a great scouting team and salary cap managers and contract negotiators, if we had just managed to get even a mediocre coach, we could have had a shot at a Super Bowl. And with it a new stadium. Now we have a debacle and a team that probably won't be in Minnesota much longer.
We have no excuse for saying we didn't see this coming. On Christmas Eve 2006 Chilly cut our leading receiver for questioning him, then tried to take credit for his numbers by saying it was his schemes that put him in position to score. When he couldn't get anyone else in position to score he blamed his players and the state of the team--even after he called this the plumb job in the NFL when he got it. He has been a coward, a liar, and a delusional egoist from the moment he got here.
So yes, it's November second and I'll join the call of, "Throw the bums out!" once again. Childress and our politicians are similar in a lot of ways, let's just try not to get fooled by the fools we replace them with again and hope it isn't too late.
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ARI 35 , MIN 0.
what if …since zigi for some reason seems a bit gun-shy on axing mr chlly.. lets hope the vikes lose 35-0 home vs arizona sunday (on purpose??).. that should convince him, maybe?…
"the following statement is true:
the preceding statement was false" - george carlin
don't go there, dude, shame on you.
Can any real fan ever actually bring themselves to root against their team? I say no, and further suggest that it is exceedingly bad form to do so. We can, rather, hope that everyone says “fuck chilly”, and ignores his calls… Frazier/Favre call the plays from the huddle, everyone visibly shuns chilly, and they go on to a ridiculous lopsided victory. THAT is what you do as a fan.
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Uff-da!
My Heart Agree With You But.......
But if the Vikings win the game Chilly will find a way to take credit for it … And if they lose .. he will blame someone else .. Thats his way .. We need to lose the rest of the games this season so Chilly will be FIRED…. (I say this with tears in my eyes and a broken heart)…
by VikinginCalifornia on Nov 2, 2010 5:57 PM CDT up reply actions
short term pain for long term gain..
…that was the gist of my comment… that being said… come sunday (and always) i will of course root for vikes win… BUT if i had choice of them losing another heartbreaking nail-biter or get blown out.. i would pick the latter for the reasons mentioned above
"the following statement is true:
the preceding statement was false" - george carlin
by BranFavrenton on Nov 3, 2010 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions
Agreed. Vikings never jumped the ship. Nor should we
I keep bringing the site back up in hopes of seeing Chilly FIRED!
Ok I think the two days worth of venting is probably enough
Not to say some may still wander about in a sea of crazy fan hate, but lets pass this and move on with the season.
It's a lot easier to love the Vikings when they win...
Ziggy Wilf Is A Idiot
If Wifl sit back and let Childress destory this team .. He indeed is a idiot .. Its apparen that this guy know nothing about the game of football or Childress would not be able to pull the wool over his eyes like he have for that past few years … How does that old saying go .. A fool and his money will soon be parted… I hope Randy Moss sign with Greenbay and embarrass the hell out of our beloved Vikings (God it hurts me to say this)
but the Wilfs need to wake up and see how lame Childress really is…
by VikinginCalifornia on Nov 2, 2010 5:54 PM CDT reply actions
It's unnerving
Part of me is worried over this sudden, drastically negative move on Childress’ part, and the lack of a response from the supposedly blindsided ownership. This glass-half-empty part of me worries that they are making things ugly on purpose to make it easier to leave town.
I know Childress likely did this because he was already angry at how the season was going. Perhaps he thinks this move could help him get the attention of the team and galvanize them in some way… But the way it was perfomed was terrible. Either delay the conference and handle your business, or give the conference, THEN tell the team and Moss. He has to know telling the team and letting it lie for a few hours will result in a media leak… Again, this whole thing is surreal and suspicous.
Is this a joke?
You’re giving him credit for spotting talent ? Any idiot could’ve made those moves. Both Peterson and Harvin had slid WAY farther than they should have. Making (thankfully) both a no-brainer at their respective spots.
I’ve never suporrted this fool. Just look at his incredibly stupid clock management that has cost us so many games. There are so many more examples of his incompetence that I won’t go in to, cause it’s been dealt with here already.
But please don’t tell us we’re jumping ship at the first sign of trouble, that aint true.
You didn't read the whole thing did you?
Yes it was sarcasm. The point is our scouting team and money people have been succeeding in spite of Childress by signing more talent each year to have Childress misuse and un-inspire them at every opportunity.
If you had clicked on my “”http://www.dailynorseman.com/2009/10/28/1105517/chilly-the-kao-and-two-minute" target="new">recent history" link above you would have seen Childress was thought rather highly of last year by the same guy from this website who’s comparing him to Mussolini this year.
He was just as much an idiot then as he is now, he just happened to be on the winning side of more games thanks to Favre taking the team away from him and people cheered when he got his contract extension.
A good coach makes his team better, he doesn’t wait for a better team to make him look good.
link code fail above, reposting
http://www.dailynorseman.com/2009/10/28/1105517/chilly-the-kao-and-two-minute
A good coach makes his team better, he doesn’t wait for a better team to make him look good.
He's not the same coach as last year
When Childress was with the Eagles, the team passed on a larger % of their plays each year that he was there. When he arrived here, it was slightly pass-happy, then run-oriented for a couple of years, then very pass happy last year with the arrival of Favre…and now very run-heavy again. He keeps handing it off to AP to bail him out of a couple games as he had done in years past, but it hasn’t worked out that way. Maybe that’s the real difference—certain things attributable to luck and gambling have not paid off, and he has not always gone with the percentages. He was handed a playoff team that was ready to compete in the Super Bowl, and he has nothing better to say for himself and the team other than “woulda, coulda, shoulda…” and that is simply not enough at this point.
Especially given the 3rd rounder trade for Randy Moss! When that went down, I didn’t think that it could possibly result in anything really negative for the Vikes even though RM is not the same player that he was a year or two ago. That assumption was based on the premise that RM would be on the roster the remainder of the season, though.
Good to see you KC
I guess you don’t remember me. We’ve been on the same side on this issue for a long time, especially last year when it wasn’t the popular opinion to have.
That said, he is the same coach, his players just aren’t able to bail his incompetent ass out of the fire and into a contract extension like they were last year.
I linked to an article above from this website almost exactly a year ago where Ted Glover talked about how he’d warmed to Childress and the K.A.O. now that Childress had a QB that could execute his strategy. Here’s the link and part of my response to that article then:
http://www.dailynorseman.com/2009/10/28/1105517/chilly-the-kao-and-two-minute
if you’re going to rate your coaches based on the personnel they have don’t be surprised when your team’s performance falls off a cliff when you run out of cap space, or an injury derails your season.
Which would be what we’re seeing now. Childress might have a lot more football knowledge than most people, but the man is not a leader. Never has been, never will be and that was clear a long time ago. You saw it, I saw it, but the powers that be have thus far still failed to act on it.
A good coach makes his team better, he doesn’t wait for a better team to make him look good.
Oh Yes He Is ..
I beg to differ he is the same lousy coach that he was last year .. The difference between this year and last is is simple .. Brett Farve and the team.. Were playing in a zone .. They were winning in spite of the silly calls and time management flaws of Brad Childress.. If you recall
the year before all the fans were up in arms and wanted him gone .. Same stupid coach .. Same stupid owners..
by VikinginCalifornia on Nov 3, 2010 12:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Watching Favre take over the two minute drill from Childress
was so damn cool. I remember watching it happen and thinking holy cow this is how we should be running the two minute offense every time.
It's a lot easier to love the Vikings when they win...
The Chicago game especially
It couldn’t have been more clear than last season during the Chicago game at Soldier field. After the Childress vs. Favre Schismgate had come to a head it was obvious Favre was playing “within the scheme” in the first half which got us into a deep hole. Then Favre took over the offense in the second half to bring us back and push it into overtime.
From that point forward it was obviously Favre’s team and Childress was happy to reap the benefits of Favre going off-script. Now he wants to blame Favre for our troubles when it doesn’t work. Classless.
A good coach makes his team better, he doesn’t wait for a better team to make him look good.
LOL
It’s hilarious to see someone telling KC Viking he isn’t anti-Chilly enough.
I think he just missed the sarcasm in my title like “dvsccn” did and tried to rattle off some stats to make a point. He’s been beaten down pretty hard over the last couple years for being too anti-Childress so maybe he was trying to be diplomatic about it.
A good coach makes his team better, he doesn’t wait for a better team to make him look good.
Chilly was liked last year by you guys?
I, along with many Lions fans, thought he was always on the hot seat. I never even got why the Vikes got a head coach that so soft.
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