brad childress

Vikings officially fire coach Brad Childress

November 22, 2010

After weeks of rampant speculation that his job was on the line, Brad Childress has been given his walking papers. ESPN is reporting that Childress was fired and the Vikings organization named defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier as the interim head coach. The decision to let him go comes one day after the team suffered its [...]

Zygi Wilf won’t fire Childress despite team’s sixth loss

November 14, 2010

Though the Minnesota Vikings suffered yet another loss today, their head coach will reportedly live to coach another week. According to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, Vikings owner Zygi Wilf isn’t considering firing coach Brad Childress, despite the dagger being driven into their season as they fell to 3-6. What an owner says publically and what he [...]

Brad Childress’ job is safe for another week

November 7, 2010

Following their comeback win in overtime, the Minnesota Vikings not only saved their season but their coach’s job — for now. According to the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Vikings coach Brad Childress will retain his job going into next week’s game against the Chicago Bears. A team source told the paper that “we’re all good” when [...]

Randy Moss wanted Brad Childress fired

November 5, 2010

Although he’s a Titan now, more details keep emerging regarding Randy Moss’ volatile month-long stay with the Minnesota Vikings. According to Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Moss, directly following Minnesota’s loss last Sunday to the Patriots, walked up to owner Zygi Wilf in the locker room and told Wilf that Childress “wasn’t a good coach and should be [...]

Childress leaning toward starting Tarvaris Jackson, not Favre

October 29, 2010

Go figure that the one factor that could end Brett Favre’s record streak of consecutive starts isn’t an injury or retirement, but his own head coach. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Vikings coach Brad Childress is leaning toward starting Tarvaris Jackson for Sunday’s virtual must-win game against the New England Patriots. The depth chart maneuver [...]

Childress Testifies as the Williamses’ Trial Wraps

March 12, 2010

The red herring of the trial is, “who leaked the test results?” It shouldn’t matter, as the leaking of the results don’t make the results different. But ok, we’ll play along. While the Pat and Kevin “Williams Wall” have already punched holes in this angle by admitting they told the wife, the friend, the coach, [...]

Vikings OK with Favre taking his time

February 26, 2010

Apparently Vikings coach Brad Childress doesn’t mind/care about the yearly agonizing process of Favre Watch – a several month ordeal of Brett Favre’s NFL intentions. To play or not to play? That’s the question…and Childress is OK with waiting for an answer from the future Hall Of Fame gunslinger. Speaking at the combine in Indy [...]