Childress rails against officiating

[HarveyWallbangers]

The officials let them play. For the most part, there were bad calls on both teams. A bunch of TD calls that were wrong, but replay corrected them. I don't feel much sympathy for Childress not throwing the flag on Quarless' TD. For every bad call on the Vikings, there was a bad call against the Packers. The spot on the Jennings catch late that would have given the Packers a first down. Or no pass interference called on Walker on the interception in the end zone. He was called all of the time for the Pack--which is why he got cut. Or a few holds and facemasks not called for Clay. I'm sure you could run down the list, if you were a Vikings fan. I just wasn't looking for it. At least, it wasn't one-sided. They decided to let them play.

[Fritz]

[And he has asked Rodgers to take more risks.

I wish he wouldn't have asked him to do it on 3rd and short. 3rd and 2 and he throws a 90 yard pass. ugh! get the first then take a risk on 1st or 2nd down!

I agree completely. At the end of the game, when what you really need is a first down and you want a high percentage play, you throw long to the sideline? Why?

[Joemailman]

MM was asked about it at his PC:

(On the third-and-2 in the fourth quarter, were you OK with Aaron’s deep throw down the sideline?)
Yeah, I think we have got to be a little more completion-conscious there.

My sense is he wasn't happy with Aaron's decision, but he could be saying the playcall was wrong.

[Fritz]

An appropriately vague answer. He's not throwing A-rod under the bus as it is possible he's second guessing his own play calling.

[Guiness]

Re: Childress rails against officiating

I agree we got away with a lot of holding, but he must not have noticed his own tackle facemasking Claymaker about 10 times before he got caught. Tonight the officials didn't call holding...both ways, I can live with that.

Catching Childress's postgame presser, the thing that confused me the most was the rage that Childress had about that facemask penalty on Loadholt. He was upset that they hadn't been calling anything all night (as concerns holding) and then the 15 yard penalty happened.

Yes, it's true that the refs weren't calling holding very tightly, but that Loadholt facemask on Matthews was one of those offenses that you can't not call, no matter how generous you've been with respect to holding beforehand. Stuff like that has a potential to seriously injure people, and it's against the rules... so you have to call it.

Agreed. I don't know if the language is still in the rules, but he 'changed the direction of the player' using the facemask. A 15yd major, no question.

[jmbarnes101]

Re: Childress rails against officiating

I agree we got away with a lot of holding, but he must not have noticed his own tackle facemasking Claymaker about 10 times before he got caught. Tonight the officials didn't call holding...both ways, I can live with that.

Catching Childress's postgame presser, the thing that confused me the most was the rage that Childress had about that facemask penalty on Loadholt. He was upset that they hadn't been calling anything all night (as concerns holding) and then the 15 yard penalty happened.

Yes, it's true that the refs weren't calling holding very tightly, but that Loadholt facemask on Matthews was one of those offenses that you can't not call, no matter how generous you've been with respect to holding beforehand. Stuff like that has a potential to seriously injure people, and it's against the rules... so you have to call it.

Now to me, what Loadholt did to Matthews is avoidable violence. If they are trying to clean up the game than not only should there be a penalty followed by a fine but he should be suspended... not just for one game but for several games as he did it repeatedly. Dirty cheaters need to be the example and have the book thrown at them.

[sharpe1027]

Re: Childress rails against officiating

Agreed. I don't know if the language is still in the rules, but he 'changed the direction of the player' using the facemask. A 15yd major, no question.

Right around the same time, Clay got punched under the chin nearly knocking his helmet off, at which time he took it the rest of the way off and kept on playing. He probably figured he was more likely to get injured if he left it on given the number of times the Vikings used his helmet to "block" him.

[Fritz]

I'm just not feeling much sympathy for Chilly in this thread.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Like the Smashing Pumpkins song goes:

"Despite all his rage, he is still going to get fired."

[Brando19]

so he's thrown favre under the bus and now blamed the refs for the lost

when does he blame himself for sucking as a coach.

honestly i think its a toss up between him and M3 as to which one is stupider or has less control over his players. i think they both suck as coaches.

at least our coach is too dumb to blame anyone, even if it is completely clean when we got screwed

Red, since Chilly didn't have a replay of the Quarless TD what about last nights game would you blame on Chilly?

Not taking a chance with 24 seconds to go in the first half and timeouts remaining. He just ran the clock out.

[channtheman]

so he's thrown favre under the bus and now blamed the refs for the lost

when does he blame himself for sucking as a coach.

honestly i think its a toss up between him and M3 as to which one is stupider or has less control over his players. i think they both suck as coaches.

at least our coach is too dumb to blame anyone, even if it is completely clean when we got screwed

Red, since Chilly didn't have a replay of the Quarless TD what about last nights game would you blame on Chilly?

Not taking a chance with 24 seconds to go in the first half and timeouts remaining. He just ran the clock out.

No shit. MM has done stupid shit like this before where he calls a timeout when the other team is willing to go into the half. Lets all just thank God that Chilly was too stupid to take advantage of it. I don't understand why you don't chuck the ball to Moss 3 straight times and see if one of them connects.

[Iron Mike]

so he's thrown favre under the bus and now blamed the refs for the lost

when does he blame himself for sucking as a coach.

honestly i think its a toss up between him and M3 as to which one is stupider or has less control over his players. i think they both suck as coaches.

at least our coach is too dumb to blame anyone, even if it is completely clean when we got screwed

Red, since Chilly didn't have a replay of the Quarless TD what about last nights game would you blame on Chilly?

Not taking a chance with 24 seconds to go in the first half and timeouts remaining. He just ran the clock out.

No shit. MM has done stupid shit like this before where he calls a timeout when the other team is willing to go into the half. Lets all just thank God that Chilly was too stupid to take advantage of it. I don't understand why you don't chuck the ball to Moss 3 straight times and see if one of them connects.

Didn't you see how pissed off Moss was that that didn't happen??? :P

[bobblehead]

Re: Childress rails against officiating

Agreed. I don't know if the language is still in the rules, but he 'changed the direction of the player' using the facemask. A 15yd major, no question.

Right around the same time, Clay got punched under the chin nearly knocking his helmet off, at which time he took it the rest of the way off and kept on playing. He probably figured he was more likely to get injured if he left it on given the number of times the Vikings used his helmet to "block" him.

Right on. On that play when he pushed it the rest of the way off it was frustration. It was his way of screaming to the refs "how many times are you going to let him rip my helmet half off before you call it?"

[bobblehead]

so he's thrown favre under the bus and now blamed the refs for the lost

when does he blame himself for sucking as a coach.

honestly i think its a toss up between him and M3 as to which one is stupider or has less control over his players. i think they both suck as coaches.

at least our coach is too dumb to blame anyone, even if it is completely clean when we got screwed

Red, since Chilly didn't have a replay of the Quarless TD what about last nights game would you blame on Chilly?

Not taking a chance with 24 seconds to go in the first half and timeouts remaining. He just ran the clock out.

No shit. MM has done stupid shit like this before where he calls a timeout when the other team is willing to go into the half. Lets all just thank God that Chilly was too stupid to take advantage of it. I don't understand why you don't chuck the ball to Moss 3 straight times and see if one of them connects.

Didn't you see how pissed off Moss was that that didn't happen??? :P

If moss pushes off with only one hand he never gets called there. The fact he used a two handed shove in the back of the defender made it impossible not to call.

[mngolf19]

so he's thrown favre under the bus and now blamed the refs for the lost

when does he blame himself for sucking as a coach.

honestly i think its a toss up between him and M3 as to which one is stupider or has less control over his players. i think they both suck as coaches.

at least our coach is too dumb to blame anyone, even if it is completely clean when we got screwed

Red, since Chilly didn't have a replay of the Quarless TD what about last nights game would you blame on Chilly?

Not taking a chance with 24 seconds to go in the first half and timeouts remaining. He just ran the clock out.

No shit. MM has done stupid shit like this before where he calls a timeout when the other team is willing to go into the half. Lets all just thank God that Chilly was too stupid to take advantage of it. I don't understand why you don't chuck the ball to Moss 3 straight times and see if one of them connects.

I'm looking for something that cost them the game, not some lame decision to run out the clock.