Comments on: CHILDRESS THROWS KLUWE UNDER THE BUS

By: 1979_Lincoln

1979_Lincoln — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:04:18 +0000

Childress has already lost the fans. His next step is to lose the team, and finally, the owner. I don’t really have a problem with Chilly calling Kluwe out in the media, but then he shouldn’t be surprised if Zygi Wilf does the same thing to him when he continues to field his ridiculous excuse for an offense. If we didn’t have Adrian Peterson, we wouldn’t gain any yards at all.
We could still win the division, but at this point, most of the credit should go to the players for the rest of the season, because our schedule is pretty easy from now until Week 17 when we play the Giants. Chilly could probably stay home for those games and the team would do about as well as they would do with him on the sidelines.
Unless Chilly can get us to an NFC Championship this year, I’m ready to “find someone else who can get the job done” too.

By: steve2e

steve2e — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:29:42 +0000

Calling out the punter is surreal at this point. Next week it will be “The dog did it.” The dog ate the playbook. It is so obvious that this boat won’t float.
What does he have to say about the rest of the game??? All those yards Peterson racked up? What about how if it wasn’t for the defense this game would have been embarrassing.
But hey, lets shoot the frickin punter. He’s responsible for at least 2 minutes of the game. YOU WOULDN’T NEED HIM IF YOU COULD MOUNT A DRIVE AND SCORE A TOUCHDOWN.
People are going to start wearing T-shirts with “Kick Ass Offense” on it.

By: steve2e

steve2e — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:21:50 +0000

Kluwe was the third shooter on the grassy knoll.

By: malpine

malpine — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:22:30 +0000

The point of the Wade Phillips story the other day was that Phillips is a “nice” guy and “nice” guys, according to you, don’t make successful coaches. That’s in public or in the film room.
There are different styles to coaching, obviously. While guys like Switzer get called a joke of a coach, I’d bet a million that Jimmy Johnson wouldn’t have been able to take the mid 90′s Cowboys back to a third Super Bowl win after losing the year before, because by the time JJ left, his act had worn thin with the players.
Point is, there is no universal way to coach so for you to say any coach should or shouldn’t do anything is pure fan speculation on your part. I love that you have this forum that allows real NFL fans an outlet for that speculation.
Thanks.

By: bored_of_seinfeld_jokes

bored_of_seinfeld_jokes — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:21:13 +0000

There is a difference between calling someone out and throwing someone under the bus to the media. From everything I’ve read or heard about Childress, I would not be at all shocked if Kluwe first heard about this in the media. Childress doesn’t seem like he has ever had a good grip on his team, and has always liked to take his battles to the media.
Regardless if the headcoach is in the right for calling out a punter over another player, there are some things that should be done behind closed doors. Your punter sucks? Cut him and then trash him to the media.

By: meefer

meefer — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:15:06 +0000

You won the game, why bother calling out anybody?
Also, to blame the punter for some blown tackles is ridiculous.
Maybe he wouldn’t have to blame the punter if his awesome offense scheme could do more than 3 straight 3 and outs. 7 step drops when they’re stacking the box and blitzing = Gus in a body bag (almost).

By: MNPawn

MNPawn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:57:24 +0000

How can anyone believe everything that comes out of Childress’ mouth anymore. Especially when he is saying that he was making correct in-game decisions (punt when down by 13 with less than 2 minutes left). If Childress told Kluwe to kick the first one that got returned out of bounds, I would call it a bad decision, we were stopping Bush up until the first one. If he told him to kick the next one out of bounds it would be a good decision, he had just burned us. Kluwe would have gotten an earful on the sidelines and we all would have seen it on TV. The next punt after getting yelled at would have been 20 yards out of bounds by the time it got to Bush, so he wouldn’t have to hear it from the coach again. Kluwe is a good directional punter, that is his specialty, if he was told to punt out of bounds twice as Childress said, one of them would have made it. Kluwe is not stupid, Childress is. Look at how all of it played out and see who made the mistake. It would not be Childress’ first mistake.

By: Jeremiah W

Jeremiah W — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:39:06 +0000

Wait a second Mike. You are free to take shots at Childress, but he is not allowed to call out his punter? Who made you the commish?
You are entitled to an opinion, but it clearly is different than the HC of the Vikes. Parcells does it for a reason, and I can see why Brad did it here.
He is not going to cut the guy, so he is going to call him out. Are you trying to turn every press conference into a Sara Palin type response to every question? He is a Maverick, he calls it like he sees it. He is talking straight to Joe 6 pack who said why in heck is he kicking it to Bush again? He may be on my team, but there were clearly some blunders made, like in every game.

By: Mike Florio

Mike Florio — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:26:50 +0000

@malpine . . .
A coach should call the players out behind closed doors, like in the film room. That was the point about the Wade Phillips story from the other day. The Cowboys players are no longer fearful of getting their asses chewed out in the film room. Parcells rarely called out a guy publicly, except to shame him into practicing or playing when he thought he was injured (e.g., calling Terry Glenn “she”).

By: malpine

malpine — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:20:55 +0000

Now it’s NOT ok to criticize your players publicly? I thought coaches were supposed to call out players and make them intimidated for their jobs. Isn’t that why Wade Phillips is being lambasted by you, Florio, and the rest of the “media”…because he’s too soft on his players?
So Wade can lose his team if he doesn’t call out his players and Childress can lose his team if he does? Which is it?

By: JuicyMelon

JuicyMelon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:12:06 +0000

Seriously Vikings fans/haters? Kluwe has been money in every game for us so far…Why in the world would be kick it to Bush all game if he wasn’t told to do so? Did Childress tell Kluwe, his ST coach, or not even at all? Even if Childress did say that to Kluwe, and I doubt he did, Childress should stand up for his players and not call them out. I am so sick of Childress defending himself above all others. If Wilf is that stupid to believe this bs, then maybe Wilf shouldn’t be involved in football. Plus, when Kluwe did kick to Bush, where was the Special Teams stopping him? Come on!
PS,
Marty-Ball!

By: CaptainFantastik

CaptainFantastik — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:52:15 +0000

Childress is as good as gone in the near future. He sucks, and his team has been greatly over-rated from the start. Maybe he should also call it his whole punt team for the breakdowns. It isn’t all the punter’s fault that the other 10 guys on that squad can’t get it done across the field either.
There’s a difference between putting a kick out of bounds with goo yardage under it and just kicking it out of bounds for 15 yards. This guy probably just tried to get off a couple of nice long punts to set the Saints back on field position and failed in his exectution. It happens.
LOL. Childress and the Vikes listened to all the Super Bowl talk during pre-season and now that it’s highly unlikely that any of it could or ever would happen the wheels are falling off. Win or not, that team is WAY overblown.

By: Ben Stuplisberger

Ben Stuplisberger — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:51:28 +0000

For those of you that are defending Childress for calling out the kicker, which is easy and cowardly to do, remember, this is the guy who squandered an immensely talented team by starting Tarvaris Jackson at QB.
Childness, have some dignity and chew out the kicker on your own time, don’t take advantage of his non-real football player status by blaming him for your own inept play calling. The Vikings got stomped, and only escaped by the Saints beating themselves and random chance, Childress should STFU and take the win he didn’t deserve.

By: Jeremiah W

Jeremiah W — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:18:39 +0000

How does he keep his team if he loses the job? that makes no sense, like pretecting the ego of a punter. If he told him to kick it out of bounds twice and he failed twice, he is lucky he still has a job. If getting blamed or called out gets the message accross, then it was a good move. Saying nothing and just cutting the guy may not send the same message, but really who are you to judge?

By: 1stngoal

1stngoal — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:03:01 +0000

Hey,maybe Kluwe wanted to see another Reggie Bush punt return like the rest of us.He just couldn’t resist…rofl

By: screaminviking

screaminviking — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:52:10 +0000

I’ve soured on Chilly a long time ago but I don’t disagree with him. Not only did Kluwe fail to kick it out of bounds he line-drived every freakin’ punt which gave the coverage unit NO time to get Bush contained.
Kluwe should be called out…nothing good has ever come from coddling a punter.
Anyone have Todd Sauerbrun’s phone #?

By: ACDC84

ACDC84 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:41:07 +0000

As long as Chilly doesn’t throw any of the 51 football players on the team under the bus I think he will be fine.

By: graunkem

graunkem — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:36:55 +0000

This guy is a clown. Childress is concerned about losing his job, as well as he should be. If his offensive play call could score some f’ing points, we wouldnt be worried about where the punt is ending up. Kluwe is well liked in the locker room by the entire team, and this could be the start of something wonderful. A mutiny perhaps. With the game that Winfield had, I imagine him being the first to call out the coaching staff. He had a phenomonal night, and it was almost overshadowed by the complete ineptitude of Brad Childress and his West Crawl Offense.

By: Fab5Philly

Fab5Philly — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:28:50 +0000

Childress should know better, after all, he did coach under Andy Reid. He needs to say: “I have to do a better job of putting the punter in position to punt the ball out of bounds.. that’s my fault, not the punter.”

By: ufdb

ufdb — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:07:42 +0000

Childress may be a bad coach, but he’s on the money with this one.
Its embarressing how much these punters get paid to have so little talent. How hard is it to kick the frigin’ ball out of bounds??

By: VikingsFan23

VikingsFan23 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:04:32 +0000

He’s only a punter. He can get called out.
And, his poor punts helped his team give away 14 points – more points than the defense gave away.
I hate Childress, but I’m not going to disagree with him here.

By: BleedPurpl

BleedPurpl — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:04:21 +0000

If Childress really said:
“Both of those kicks are supposed to be out of bounds,” Childress said of the two punts that Bush returned for scores, “and when you say to somebody kick the ball out of bounds, that’s what you expect to happen. That’s what I expect to happen with a professional football kicker.”
Why would he not have been all in Kluwe’s face after the first one didn’t go out. Or even moreso the second one, the Bush slipped on. But apparently Childress did not confront him then either. If my boss got on my case twice about flagrant insubordination, I am sure there would not have been a third time, which in Kluwe’s case led to the second TD.
Childress comes off sounding like a cowardly piece of crap, defelecting his own ineptitude to someone whom, “just a punter” or not is a member of the team. And yes, that will indeed “lose the team” sooner than later.

By: zygi milf

zygi milf — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:54:33 +0000

Hey Swaps – yes, Childress needs to be fired, but we don’t need Marty Ball. Like Joe Gibbs, the game has passed him by. He can keep his bible thumping out of the Vikings locker room.

By: Ntrikit

Ntrikit — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:48:26 +0000

FIRE BRAD CHILDRESS!!!

By: Canadian Mike

Canadian Mike — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:32:28 +0000

Fire Childress please!!! That offense is inept.

By: oigetit

oigetit — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:25:36 +0000

It’s also Kluwe’s fault that Childress doesn’t know how to spread out a defense to open up the running game.

By: MottQinCT

MottQinCT — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:19:57 +0000

Hey folks, remember, if Reggie didn’t slip, he would have had 3 to the house.

By: Kevin from Philly

Kevin from Philly — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:09:33 +0000

Surpising to hear this from a guy that used to be under Andy “i’m not gonna get into that” Reid. (Not literally under – cause that would, you know, hurt.)

By: gdog97

gdog97 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:59:59 +0000

Not sure how many of you guys live in MN and see what Childress dishes out to the media, but let me tell you this.
He is the KING of ‘competitive disadvantage’ by not giving out informatoin. He is the KING of ‘I know what needs to be done to fix this team’ or ‘We are really working our tails off and I can see the fire in their eyes’ guy.
So for him to not continue that attitude and setting an example as a coach, is beyond excuseable. Even if it is a punter. This is the same coach who said ‘Accountability is #1 around here’ after they had the love boat incident. Was Bryant McKinnie suspended by the team? Nope. Was Dwight Smith ever suspended last year? Nope.
He knows the heat is on and when that happens, true colors come out. When you will stoop to the level of throwing a player under the bus, no matter who it is or what it’s for, as a coach, that’s a clear sign it’s getting to you.
I was a big supporter of BC until this season. He has proven he is not capable of doing a good job or even mediocre job. The only thing ‘kick-ass’ about his offense is the poor play calling. Chilly, needs to go. Boom. Outta here.

By: TheDPR

TheDPR — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:55:34 +0000

First, I agree that Childress is among the worst HCs in the league.
That said, there’s no “blame” for anything when you’re coming off a win. And if he follows through and cans Kluwe, then there’s nothing wrong with calling him out, IMO. On the other hand, if he spouts all that stuff and it turns out to be empty threat, he’ll lose whatever respect the team has for him. You don’t say you’re going to replace a guy and then let him keep his job. Either Kluwe is gone or this is just another symptom that Childress is a tool.