Childress and Harvin need to be separated

[l.a. no-teamers]

A confrontation between Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress and receiver Percy Harvin grew so heated Friday afternoon that coaches and players were forced to separate them to prevent a physical exchange, according to team sources.


After the two were separated, according to sources, a teammate told Harvin: "You just did what a lot of us have been wanting to say for years."


In addition to the Harvin confrontation, the Star Tribune reported Sunday morning that he has kicked at least two prominent players from practice this season: defensive end Ray Edwards and nose tackle Pat Williams.

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http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/19107/childress-cant-have-many-allies-remaining

[BigBenCan7]

I think it's a very good possibility that Childress is coaching for his job today.

[MrSlurpee]

Man, I was really hoping to see the Vikings lose today, just so we could see what would happen with Chilly. It would put Wilf in a tough situation- pay out Chilly's fat contract, or keep his players happy and get rid of a coach that has completely lost the locker room.

[Chris Raiden]

He's going to need to be separated from his QB after today's comment about him not needing a hug like Favre at his presser...yikes...trashing the guy who just saved your job for another week...

[|(evin|(olb|(ritik]

He's going to need to be separated from his QB after today's comment about him not needing a hug like Favre at his presser...yikes...trashing the guy who just saved your job for another week...

You're grossly misquoting him. Secondly he was clearly trying to be comedic, he just isn't very funny.

[MrSlurpee]

You're grossly misquoting him. Secondly he was clearly trying to be comedic, he just isn't very funny.

I'm pretty sure that given what's been going on with the Vikings and Childress the past few weeks, making a joke like that is not going to win your team back over. Childress took a shot at Favre, and even if Childress is joking, Favre won't see it that way, and neither will the rest of the guys in the locker room. The funny part about it, is that Childress has been the one condoning this type of behavior from Favre. He's allowed it, and now that he realizes how much he screwed up by allowing Favre to run this team, he's cracking wise about it. He's lost this team, and even though they won, its only going to get worse as the season goes on if he keeps doing crap like this. I'm starting to wonder if he's trying to get fired.

[|(evin|(olb|(ritik]

I'm pretty sure that given what's been going on with the Vikings and Childress the past few weeks, making a joke like that is not going to win your team back over.

Probably not, but mostly because the press and the fans are going to misquote it and run with it as criticism instead of shrugging it off like they would anytime anybody else tells a bad joke. I wouldn't have said it in his situation but I don't think he should be hung for it nor do I agree that Favre is going to take issue with it. He didn't say anything about Favre that Favre wouldn't or hasn't joked about himself. Favre isn't some sensitive 12 year old girl, he knows how ridiculous he is. He was joking about how emotional, personal and open Favre can be with the press. This has been a staple of Brett Favres for the entirety of his career, its what made him who he is and its what built his following with his fans.

[MrSlurpee]

Probably not, but mostly because the press and the fans are going to misquote it and run with it as criticism instead of shrugging it off like they would anytime anybody else tells a bad joke. I wouldn't have said it in his situation but I don't think he should be hung for it nor do I agree that Favre is going to take issue with it. He didn't say anything about Favre that Favre wouldn't or hasn't joked about himself. Favre isn't some sensitive 12 year old girl, he knows how ridiculous he is. He was joking about how emotional, personal and open Favre can be with the press. This has been a staple of Brett Favres for the entirety of his career, its what made him who he is and its what built his following with his fans.

I'm not reading any quotes or anything like that. I watched the presser, in full, and I heard exactly what he said. There was no misquoting it or anything like that. The bottom line is that given his current situation, it was a terrible time and place to be joking like that. Is what he said that bad in itself? No, not at all. Had he said it this time last year, no one would be talking about it. But because he said it when and where he did, after Favre single handily saved Chilly's job for 1 more week, Chilly is going to play villain again. Childress has to have the intelligence to know what the situation is around him, and he has to realize he can't be making comments like this when the rest of the locker room is ready to come to blows with him. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and believe he was joking, but I guarantee that there are at least a couple players in that locker room who don't think he was joking, and the last thing this team needs is more drama and more distractions.

[|(evin|(olb|(ritik]

LOL! I love this newly popular headline of "Favre single handedly saved Childress's job for another week." You guys are such sheep, yeah it was all Favre right?

So aside from the fact that you don't even know that Childress' job is in distress to begin with how exactly did Brett Favre save Childress' job? Did he do it by not playing like complete #@$% for the first time this year? Why does Childress not get any credit for this win? Did Favre go out there and play 1 on 53? How about credit for the defense that started that comeback by getting Favre the ball on the Cardinals 40 yard line? How about credit for their great TE Visanthe Shiancoe who made great plays late in that game to allow Favre to pull out the win? How about credit for the guy calling the plays... oh wait thats Childress.... I forgot he isn't allowed to have credit for anything.

This is exactly what i'm talking about. Its like you're not allowed to credit Childress for anything unless its negative. Somehow he's fallen into this role where he takes all of the blame when things are bad and doesn't get credited with any of the success when things go well. Nobody credits him for getting his team ready to play a game through all of this adversity, instead they want to put it all on Favre. Nobody credited him when he won 12 games last season and made a playoff run 1 quarter short of a Superbowl appearance. Nobody credited him for improving a wreck of a franchise each of his years with the team. Nah, why bother with any of that when you can cling to senseless and irrelevant BS like him cutting a player on christmas eve one time or because he isn't the most accessible coach to the press.