CHILLY FIRED - Packers are COACH KILLERS!

[ThunderDan]

Frazier's gonna bench Favre. Just watch the streak end.

He's got to. Vikes are out of the playoffs, BF said he ain't playing next year, and you got to find out if a QB on your roster is going to lead the team next year or you need to draft a QB.

[pbmax]

Just for a moment, seriously, it seems clear Childress lost control of this behemoth and its possible it would never have worked for ANY coach unless they were winning.

But PFT thinks other heads could roll in the front office, like Rick Spielman. I could be wrong, but does that front office share in the blame? Didn't Childress have final say over the roster?

[pbmax]

He's got to. Vikes are out of the playoffs, BF said he ain't playing next year, and you got to find out if a QB on your roster is going to lead the team next year or you need to draft a QB.

Didn't they already answer the Tavaris question by signing Favre? And isn't TJacks biggest supporter now out of the picture? If I was Frazier, I would run Favre out there like a rented mule until he drops. Any respectable showing gets him his first HC gig.

[Tony Oday]

I think today we will hear about an injury settlement with Favre

[mmmdk]

Who brought Childress the news?

I hear Bert texted Chilly with a pic of his willy - with a "you're fired, d!ckhead".

[Kiwon]

He gone.....

[ThunderDan]

Didn't they already answer the Tavaris question by signing Favre? And isn't TJacks biggest supporter now out of the picture? If I was Frazier, I would run Favre out there like a rented mule until he drops. Any respectable showing gets him his first HC gig.

I still think you have 2 QBs on your roster that will be there next year. You have to let them play to see what you have. Leslie Frazier is one of the top canidates for a HC job this next year no matter what happens. He might actually want to tank it to be able to go to Carolina or Cincinnati.

[pbmax]

I still think you have 2 QBs on your roster that will be there next year. You have to let them play to see what you have. Leslie Frazier is one of the top canidates for a HC job this next year no matter what happens. He might actually want to tank it to be able to go to Carolina or Cincinnati.

He will be in demand because there seems to be a feeling that the CBA uncertainty will cause teams to look in house for replacements. That puts extra pressure on teams to find Rooney Rule interviews and he would be a natural. Teams with interim coaches (Cowboys) aren't going to attract a lot of interest from other candidates if the in house guy is seen as the heir. But tanking is going to hurt more than it would help. It would be easier to put the Wilf's off for 8 weeks.

Staying in house also lessens the chance that you are changing systems while having truncated offseason work. I still think a good org should hire the best candidate, but that will not stop some teams from panicking about a new system of play.

[swede]

I still think you have 2 QBs on your roster that will be there next year. You have to let them play to see what you have. Leslie Frazier is one of the top canidates for a HC job this next year no matter what happens. He might actually want to tank it to be able to go to Carolina or Cincinnati.

What a tough break for him. Can he avoid being re-signed by Minny? Can he finish with this team in a way that makes him look attractive to teams looking for a coach?

What he wanted to do was to go to the NFC Championship game and win his interviews next season riding high and looking good.

Now he has the stink of purple gone bad.

[Packgator]

the stink of purple gone bad.

That has a nice ring to it

[Scott Campbell]

In happier times.........

[green_bowl_packer]

Just for a moment, seriously, it seems clear Childress lost control of this behemoth and its possible it would never have worked for ANY coach unless they were winning.

But PFT thinks other heads could roll in the front office, like Rick Spielman. I could be wrong, but does that front office share in the blame? Didn't Childress have final say over the roster?

Chilly at one point this season just had to say "Fuck It" (excuse my french young packer fans), I've got my extension (thanks Brett), I'm going to exercise some juice here in the 2010 season and it blew up in his face. Obviously there's the losing, but sending the 3 guys down to get Favre, then lying about it, trading for/then cutting Moss within a 2/3 week time frame, ripping Favre in the presser, and subsequently losing the locker room (though seems he lost it much sooner). Not that I'm complaining.

But if this isn't Karma coming back on the Vikes and Pevre going back to 2007, I don't know what is. 1 play away from SB, and now this. Beautiful!!!

I think the Vikes had a triumverate of power between Chilly, Speilman, and Ziggy or so they said, and Chilly most likely violated that by cutting Moss after giving up a 3rd, 2/3 weeks earlier. That and Favre's crappy year, put the noose around his neck, yesterday we kicked out the chair.


Should be interesting to see what BF does now that Frazier is finally getting his shot, after such a long wait. If he makes it to the end of the year that's 300 hundred games in a row. No? Is the Ironman a quitter, who doesn't want to get benched?

[hoosier]

Good question about who has final say about personnel decisions with Vikings. At least during the draft it sounds like Spielman does, though he also explained that he would never draft someone who Childress doesn't like. http://www.startribune.com/sports/vi...rksUUUycaEacyU If Spielman has de facto final say on drafting matters I would guess that goes for other personnel decisions as well, but who knows. In any case, giving Spielman the axe would be a huge mistake, on a par with the mistake that was hiring Chilly. I hope they can him.

[Fritz]

Well. Zygi really had no choice, just as Jerry Jones had no choice two weeks ago. The team was gone, long, long gone.

My guess would be that Frazier knows he has to assert control over the team immediately - and the way you do that is by taking the top dog and making sure he know's he's #2, not #1.

And I don't mean Adrian Peterson or Pat Williams or Visigoth Shiancoe or Antoine Winfield or Kevin "Willaims" or Sydney Rice....

[channtheman]

Now the big question after the Phillips and Chilly firings: Why do the owners wait until the season is gone to fire the head coach?