my folks live in eden prairie and i was there a few weeks ago and saw him at the gas station. He was upset that he couldnt retreive 1 thousand dollars from the ATM and he was asking the clerk why that was. I told him he had to make 2 transactions cuz theres usually a limit and he started to laugh about it and said thanks and started to walk out. i asked him “are we gonna turn the season around when you get back or what?” he said “yeah maybe”….“if everyone decides to work theyre hardest” he seemed extremely fed up

The offense was amazing last year under Brad Childress… What with all those amazing players that Childress was coaching/drafting.

Come to think of it, it’s not circular, it’s just flawed. When they were good it was about their ability, when they’re bad, it’s the coach’s fault.

Pat Kirwan had a great comment about the difference between analysts who played analysts who coached… Not everything comes down to scheme, or the play call. Players (and fans) always talk about “what a dumb call.” Well sometimes players just plain don’t EXECUTE the right call. Like running Power O between the tackle and guard at the goal line to end the half.

And it’s a coaches job to FIX that, not prevent that. But none of us ever see the mistakes that players don’t make again. We just bitch and moan about how they should have run it behind Hutch, or how we need to pass on first down more often. We don’t think about balance. We just yell at our TVs and pretend we know better than the 32 head coaches who live breathe and eat football 24/7.

I for one, like to think I’m smart enough to know one thing: I sure as hell don’t know more about offensive football than Brad Childress.

Under Vince Lombardi, maybe, under Lane Kiffin, maybe not? It’s fun to play hypotheticals, but we have to acknowledge that it’s very difficult to evaluate Childress (or any head coach) without perspective.

I’d hate to lose him and have him go win two superbowls elsewhere. Granted, we’re not Oakland, so that’s probably not a guarantee like it was back in the day, but it’s a tough call to make.

And all of the perspective I have says that he was a pretty good coach last year. And the year before that.

And I’m saying we certainly won’t have a better record THIS SEASON under an interim or new head coach. That I can almost certainly guarantee.

So I’m saying, for the sake of our own sanity… why not have this conversation after the season when it’s actually relevant? When we have more than a 7 game sample to go on, and when we’re actually in a position to do something constructive about it?

I was hoping to spur a debate or a conversation. But my apologies if I struck a chord?