Childress was a disaster from the jump. This is a guy who was a psycholgy major who had his team rebel on him. He couldn’t manage personalities. They quit on him and their performance lead to his firing in a loss to GB.

After the Moss firing Zygi flew in to interview the entire team. Only 1 or 2 guys tepidly defended their head coach publicly. The rest told Zygi what he needed to make an expensive decision for the good of the team. They laid down & lost without a fight to the Packers. That player protest forced Zygi’s hand.

Speilman did his best to build Brad a team and Childress jettisoned Culpepper (before finding out if there was anything left, or trade bait) put in Brad Johnson but told him he was not allowed to call audibles, then imposed Tarvaris Jackson on us. Sage Rosenfels was brought in to challenge Jackson and Childress got his panties knotted up and traded him away.

Brett Favre wanted to be a Viking! He wanted revenge on GB. He said it before he even went to the Jets. He wanted to be here because he could see what the head coach couldn’t. An offensive power and he had a friend in Darrell Bevell. He never got along with Childress. Favre led that team DESPITE Childress! The whole “my QB’s don’t call audibles” a factor in Favre’s despise.

People like to look at Philly’s offense when he was there ignoring 1 HUGE glaring fact. He didn’t call offense during games (Andy did). And when he wanted to prove he could do it in MN…well the results speak for themselves (pre-Favre) He rode one of the NFL’s historically best run defenses to improbably victory. I think I remember at least a couple of games where the MN defense outscored the offense.

Collecting Vikings checks and chilling in Florida nobody wanted Childress. After a year the Browns brought him in…Now he’s unemployed again.

Stay down where you belong.

“Hey bro, we’re getting the band back together,”

Then when things started fouling up with Favre he decided to bring Moss back, Mistake! That guy has been a joke the last 6 years. Before that you had the likes of TO throwing him under the bus back in the day, which probably didn’t help his street cred at the time either.

I think Chilly was the best thing that happened to that franchise since the Denny Green days. At a minimum he helped turn that franchise into a winner after the Mike Tice Love Boat Vikings.

I would rather see Pat Shurmer than Chilly. Whoever they get will be an upgrade over Brian Daboll. A Monkey could be better at calling plays for Jamall Charles.

 Trust me Cleveland had both and as bad as Daboll is Shurmur is much much worse.

TL;DR

Also Childress, say what you will, is AWFUL. I don’t care how many wins he went to/from.

who will call plays?

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He’ll have Darell Bevell on speaker phone for the entire game. And if he’s not available, there’s always Favre.

He dominated the Cowboys and dominated the Saints from a gameplan perspective. Saints were out-gained 475 to 257 and anyone who watched the game knows that fumbles and illegal hits on Brett Favre were the only reason the Vikings didn’t win that game by at least 2 scores– not coaching.

If you’re going to blame a coach for 3 fumbles and an INT caused by a QB doing something junior high QBs aren’t dumb enough to do (throw across your body) you are an ignorant fan. The 12 men in the huddle thing was Eric Bienemy’s fault and Childress never threw him under the bus. The guy was one Brett Favre total mind-fart away from beating Saints/refs on the road despite losing the turnover battle 5-1.

Sean Payton is considered an ‘offensive genius’ while Childress is viewed as an idiot. Some idiots think Childress was only good because of Favre. Favre had the best season of his career with Childress at the age of 40. Head coaches and QBs go hand in hand. This is fact.

The only mistake Childo made was releasing Randy Moss without notifying or asking permission of Zygi Wilf. If the things the Vikings beat writers reported at the time were true, releasing Randy was the right thing to do, just not the right way to go about it.

The guy doesn’t have the aesthetic of your prototype head coach. The guy can certainly seem cold or unapproachable to fans. The guy can occasionally rub a player the wrong way. At the end of the day though, he took the Vikings from 6 wins to 8, 10, 12, and then it fell apart. The guy is a good coach.