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Slick Rick wrote: Should have beat Chicago, Cleveland, Green Bay, and Baltimore. We blew it against Detroit early in the season too...

Yes but, had we done that, we would still have the Frazier regime running the show. I am glad it worked out the way it did. Zimmer/Turner have me more exited than I have been in many years.

mmvikes wrote:Yes but, had we done that, we would still have the Frazier regime running the show.

... and the last thing we would have wanted if a coaching staff took the Vikings to the postseason in the last two of their first three years is for that coaching staff to stick around!

It didn't work out. Let's hope the excitement over Zimmer and Turner works out better.

Mothman wrote: ... and the last thing we would have wanted if a coaching staff took the Vikings to the postseason in the last two of their first three years is for that coaching staff to stick around!

It didn't work out. Let's hope the excitement over Zimmer and Turner works out better.

It is a good point Mothman. Had they won the division again, who knows. I do not hate Frazier. He did some good things. He built an atmosphere around the team that was respected by NFL players, and it may have helped in luring free agents had he been able to survive till this year when we finally had some cap space to work with. I think he had some weaknesses that outweighed the good. I thought Musgrave did a respectable if not good job with the offense last year considering what he had to work with. We did score a lot of points. Williams on the otherhand, was pitiful in my opinion. Singletary and Pagac were useless as well. There are no assurances that Zimmer will be a great coach, but this is the first coaching hire I have EVER, as a viking fan, been excited about. (I don't remember the Grant hiring). Doesn't mean it will work, but I am looking forward to us playing in a super bowl soon. I can't help that enthusiasm right now.

mmvikes wrote:It is a good point Mothman. Had they won the division again, who knows. I do not hate Frazier. He did some good things. He built an atmosphere around the team that was respected by NFL players, and it may have helped in luring free agents had he been able to survive till this year when we finally had some cap space to work with. I think he had some weaknesses that outweighed the good. I thought Musgrave did a respectable if not good job with the offense last year considering what he had to work with. We did score a lot of points. Williams on the otherhand, was pitiful in my opinion. Singletary and Pagac were useless as well. There are no assurances that Zimmer will be a great coach, but this is the first coaching hire I have EVER, as a viking fan, been excited about. (I don't remember the Grant hiring). Doesn't mean it will work, but I am looking forward to us playing in a super bowl soon. I can't help that enthusiasm right now.

There's no reason you should! I'm hoping Zimmer will be the coach who leads the Vikes to the Super Bowl too.

Jim

It sounds like the Vikings QBs are all being very supportive of one another.

http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_25 ... ridgewater

Vikings: Veteran QBs won't ice rookie Bridgewater

Matt Cassel and Christian Ponder are helping a young quarterback who might eventually put both on the bench.

That isn't always the case in the NFL. Joe Theismann, for instance, has talked about the hatred he felt from Billy Kilmer when he entered the NFL as Kilmer's backup with the Washington Redskins in the 1970s.

But it seems Cassel and Ponder, who combined to start 15 of Minnesota's games last season, have welcomed rookie Teddy Bridgewater, selected by the Vikings with the 32nd pick in last month's draft, and are showing him the ropes.

"You could come into a situation where guys aren't going to want to help you because they know you could possibly take their job," Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph said.

"But it's not that way here with Matt and Christian. They want to help Teddy and do everything they can to instill the knowledge they've learned through this game to Teddy."

Mothman wrote:It sounds like the Vikings QBs are all being very supportive of one another.

http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_25 ... ridgewater

Cool; very good to read this.

I'm trying to imagine a scenario more different than Kilmer/Theisman compared to what the Vikings now have going on.

............. Nope. Can't think of one.

The Vikings have three nice guys at QB, all of them pretty bright. Nobody is going to raise even the hint of a stink. Cassel knows exactly what to say and how to act. It netted him a $5M/year contract last year. He's no dummy. Ponder, by now, knows the score: his career will be as a backup somewhere. You don't get good a backup QB job if you're a whiner. An Bridgewater knows that he has nobody of significance playing in front of him. If it takes twelve games, or a season, or even two seasons before he's the starter, he knows it's going to happen.

Isn't this the same thing everyone other than Brett Favre says? Remember the Favre "It's not my job to coach the guy" interview?

It will be interesting to see who has the better training camp. You can't NOT start Teddy if he truly is the better player. Cassel was one of the reasons we won games last year, but only a few. If we had an established vet who wins games, sure you sit Teddy year one.

It started with Flacco and Ryan, drafting guys and starting them year 1. Newton, Luck, RG3, Tannehill, Sanchez (who keep in mind took the Jets to the AFC championship his first two years in the league).

Bottom Line: Teddy starts week 1. Lets have some faith in him. He's a winner. What do we have to lose?

78 votes were cast and 0 picked game 4.

Well it's Teddy Time starting next week! Go get'em kid! Can't wait to see this young guy develop.

to be fair most thought after the bye. but stupid cassel had to go shatter his foot skewing the vote

Yeah. Stupid Cassel. He probably doesn't even drink milk.

I'm going with Week 4... call me psychic.

soflavike wrote:I'm going with Week 4... call me psychic.

Yes... but of what season??

I was pretty sure he'd get a start due to a Cassel injury. Cassel couldn't stay on the field last year either.

It will be interesting to see how the game goes when Norv and the Atlanta defense are both gameplanning for Teddy.