Vikings Address Wide Receiver Situation In The Most Underwhelming Way Imaginable

It should be Randy Moss! Point Blank!

Guess who ELSE will be coming to town?

I cant believe this guy is the “answer”. Jackson better be next.

And if he fails, we’ll discuss the matter again :)

I think she works out.

I’ve defended Childress before, but this deserves a back hand. I want to pluck the remaining hairs from his greasy head for this, “Fred Flinstone Band-aid” attempt to fix a horrendous problem. I guess the Jackson trade made too much sence. I have to admit, we really did need another guy standing on the side lines watching Favre throw another incomplete 3rd down pass. Just what the doctor ordered. WTFE. Does it seem like hes trying to lose?

Even if Chilly did not know he will need good receivers for Favre, did he not realize that T-Jack would have needed even better WRs?

We don’t resign Walker, we pass on Houshm we totally ignore Clayton. Cang, :ogan Patne has far more talent-seriously. Payne was a workaholic. Would he have become Favres Austin Collie?
This better be insurance for a deal for Vincent asTony O said.
O cansee no other reason to ink such a flop.
Again and don’t say it (we can’t play him) JOE FRICKIN WEBB! Like he is never going to learn to br a QB if we abandon that plan for a little while?
Joe is sitting there and my crystal ball is showing Joe putjumping corners or takinglittle post passes and outrunning the opposing D.
Cpme on fans Quit the excuses.Joe is a player- let him play. What if he turns out to be another flop QB project and in 2 games we learn he might be the next Marcus Colston in a Michael Irvin body.

Are we insane to think that this is cho;;ys next pet project. Put Webb out wide

Either this is a joke, the Vikings aren’t taking their offensive woes seriously or they called the wrong guy on speed dial.

As discussed, Hank’s greatest asset to this team is his wife. This is borderline insulting if this is our 5th WR and we pass on Jackson.

Time to man up Zigster! Get rid of your offensive coordinators and the wanna be players like Berrian & then talk super bowl bid. You need play callers who have imagination along with the guts. Then in their defense you need players who can run those plays!!! The defenses out there soon know how to cover all four of the plays your coaches & team have worked up so far this year!

Let me get this straight. A receiver that was good enough to make the Colts SB team isn’t good enough for us. A slow old broken down Javon Walker is much better for us. Giving up 2 picks in this years draft is better for us. Playing a QB that has never played WR is better for us. All of these solutions are better than a guy that beat out all the other receivers that wanted to play for the Colt

Hank Baskett is a class act. I was working Eagles security while stationed at McGuire AFB a couple years ago (we made money that bought goodies for our deployed brethren downrange). During a signing event, I led Brent Celek to the autograph table and saw that Hank was the only player without a security escort. The Eagles personnel were trying to get him inside the tent where fans paid a fee to go in for a certain amount of autographs from the players. Hank was busy taking photos with fans outside. Once inside, his brother acted as his security. What was cool about this is that we weren’t allowed to let anyone around the table to take pictures with the players. Hank said F that and invited them around and took pics and talked with fans like a regular Joe. I was thoroughly impressed with his behaviour that day. So hopefully karma comes back his way.

My money says this was done simply send a signal to the chargers that we aren’t giving up a second AND a third to acquire vj for 12 games.

Camarilo hasn’t seen that much action yet while learning our plays, no way baskett does. Relax people.

bq Did Javon Walker key Chilly’s car, or something?

THANK you… I’ve been wondering the same thing!!! Was no one else impressed enough by his preseason performance? OK, no, Walker wasn’t the second coming of Moss or anything, but hell he had some nice catches… and as I’ve said on another post, if one of the issues is ‘chemistry’ between Favre and the recievers (after all, Favre’s doing pretty good with that Shianco fella), why aren’t we focusing on the guy who seemed to have that?? Favre seemed happy Walker was around, and sad when he wasn’t… let’s do something to make the old guy happy and maybe we’ll be happier too!

Did Javon Walker key Chilly’s car, or something?

THANK you… I’ve been wondering the same thing!!! Was no one else impressed enough by his preseason performance? OK, no, Walker wasn’t the second coming of Moss or anything, but hell he had some nice catches… and as I’ve said on another post, if one of the issues is ‘chemistry’ between Favre and the recievers (after all, Favre’s doing pretty good with that Shianco fella), why aren’t we focusing on the guy who seemed to have that?? Favre seemed happy Walker was around, and sad when he wasn’t… let’s do something to make the old guy happy and maybe we’ll be happier too!

Does anyone know if the trade with the Giants involved a ‘no-backsies’ clause? I’m over the Jackson-Rosenfals thing, but I’d really, really, really… REALLY… like Reynaud back now.

Three posts in a row? What, no one else posts on SB Nation early in the morning when they should be doing work??

Anywho… two quick thoughts on Berrian. I was very dissapointed when he said that he feels he’s getting too much of the blame. Boo f’in hoo buddy. That’s not something great players do. Did AP ever come out and say that when everyone was calling him Adrian Fumblesome (OK, I was one of ‘em, but still…), even though he was still often making breakout plays? No. He didn’t. He WORKED on it and thus far has shut everyone’s mouth on the matter (hope I didn’t just jynx him…). Can you hear Favre saying this, that the blame is too much for him? I don’t. Great football players, even if they FEEL that they are being unfairly targeted, say nothing. They buckle down and do what it takes to prove everyone wrong and shut ‘em up. It’s a diva move to say that, and the last thing we need in the locker room right now is a crybaby- especially from someone who is as high-profile as Berrian, someone who everyone is really counting on right now. This will NOT help.

A second thought- that said, I do have to say this (runs for cover)… I AGREE with him a little. I’m not being a hypocrite BTW, I still feel he shouldn’t have said it outloud. But the sentiment alone I do somewhat agree with. He’s not a highly targeted weapon, so to be fair, he doesn’t have a ton of opportunities in games. The first pick against him on the goaline I’m going to go ahead and put squarely on Favre’s shoulders. Allen was RIGHT in front of him- I’m not sure if 100% coverage is a real term, but it’s a pretty close description to what was going on there. There was NO way that Berrian could have found a way to make that catch- and I don’t believe for a second that Rice, or Moss, or Housh, or Jackson, or anyone else would have made that catch either. Berrian, IMO, did his part by making the tackle ASAP so our D could get the ball right back and allow AP to score anyways. If that had been me, I might have been so amazed that Favre even MADE that pass that I probably would have missed the tackle- Berrian probably didn’t expect that in a thousand years. It wasn’t like Favre’s pass to Harvin- instead of making the catch and a TD like he should have, Harvin decided it was time to do a cartwheel and then play hackysack with the football and surrounding Dolphins defenders. THAT play was the WR’s fault. The first pick against Berrian? QB’s fault.

The second pick against Berrian (not the one overturned by the penalty) is a mix. I don’t believe he could have made that catch. Could he have stopped hard and at least stopped it from being picked off? Maybe- probably. I’ll say that one’s 50/50. Berrian should have done his part to prevent the pick and, rather than call for a flag, gone for the tackle like he did the first time. But then again, Favre didn’t float that sucker into his hands, either. I’ll say the same thing about the pick that was overturned- 50/50.

Berrian wasn’t getting the damn near pinpoint accuracy that Shianco was enjoying- and even Shianco dropped a big pass. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m not the kinda guy who downs a guy’s great game for one mess-up; everyone gets one.)

For Berrian, he’s lacking the opportunities and the accuracies to really make some big plays. Again, could he do more to prevent the interceptions? Two times outta three, yeah. Again, that first one- no. All he could do is make a tackle, and that’s exactly what he did, so kudos for him on that play.

Berrian’s also facing damn near constant double coverage, as he really is the Vike’s only deep threat at this point. You can try and do what you will with Harvin, but a.) his game, IMO, is sucking even harder than Berrians, and b.) he’s a slot runner at the end of the day. Berrian’s not a jump-ball guy like Moss or Rice, who will just leap over two corners/ safeties and make the high catch- he’s just not that player, and you can’t play him like he is. It’s like telling AP to not hit people- it’s not who he is.

This is not a 100% defense of Berrian, mind you. Again, I’d like to see him make some harder stops and at least break up the interception if he can’t make the catch. And I’d like to see him SHUT UP about being unfairly targeted, true or not. which at this point is my biggest beef with the guy, and it unnerves me more than anything else right now about going forward. I do think Berrian can and should do more. But until he gets more passes, and more passes made for the player he IS and not who Favre WISHES he was, I’m going to throw a few freebies his way.

Just my two cents on BB.

Berrian has been a lost cause since we got him from Chi-town. The fact that Chilly and the boys didn’t make any moves to shore up WR before the season started says it all.

We have a great D and the best RB in football, so why can’t the coaching make that work to win games?

lol, loved this

WHO is hank baskett?
who IS hank baskett?
who is HANK baskett?

WHO THE HELL IS HANK BASKETT?

Twitter report from Adam Schefter on ESPN.

Let’s face it, San Diego should have been thankful to get a 2nd rounder and another pick based on how many years VJax signed for.

Now, I hope VJax goes scorched earth, doesn’t play for them and signs a low ball first year contract with someone after the season so they don’t even get a 3rd rounder (assuming the collective bargaining language even has that for next year).

$#%! you very much AJ Smith. I hope the Charger’s owners kick your ass to the curb.

Baskett caught 1,046 yards of passes in 3 years with Philadelphia. Billy McMullen has less 725 receiving yards in his entire career which spans 6 NFL seasons. Baskett has started 11 regular season games in his career. McMullen has started 2. Baskett has 4 receptions in 4 playoff games. McMullen has none.

Although he only has 1 punt return (for 25 yards) on his resume since college, it is possible that Baskett is being signed in part to return punts.

Chill out everyone……we signed Baskett to be on our kick return team not as a primary receiver!

What’s that? He sucks on special teams too? Can’t catch onside kicks either? Well, then proceed to wig out! This makes no sense!

Who’s roster spot does he take?

Just saw a report on ESPN that Kendra tried to pass Hank the herp and he couldn’t catch that either.

As someone who knows more about him than most; he was a three sport all-state athlete, and first team Mountain West WR.
He ran a 4.6 at the combine that’s why he didn’t get drafted, but he is more a 4.53 guy- same as Rice but he is more of a strider not as fluid as Rice.
What he brings us is a big physical target for Favre who has real good hands and will go up and get it. He is a great run blocker for a WR and not a bad character guy either.
He won’t wow any of us but he will make a play here and there, and he is not injury prone.
He has played in the WCO and has a feel for it and my favorite thing about him is that his two best games as a pro have been against the Cowboys and his two long TD catches (90, & 89 yards) just took the air out of them both games.
I know we wanted VJack but Baskett is a Viking now (again) so lets give him a chance and see how he can help our team.
SKOL!

Baskett is the only receiver that was currently available who could actually help the Vikings this Sunday. He has fully participated in OTA’s, and minicamp so conditioning will not be a problem. He has worked in the West Coast system and will be better suited to play right away (unlike Camarrillo was). Sometimes the deal that you don’t make ends up being the best result. Now the Vikings can use the money they would have thrown away at Jackson and use it to help resign a Greenway, Leber, Rice, etc. before the end of the year. I don’t mind the addition of Baskett at all. Don’t let the slow start affect your long term judgement folks. We’ll beat Detroit this week and have the bye week and extra day off to work out the problems on offense. Then when we smoke the Jets ass on Monday night, the bandwagon will start to fill back up. It’s NEVER easy being a Vikings fan. We never do well as a front runner. Maybe these speed bumps early on will allow us to sneak up on some teams we “aren’t” supposed to beat this year.