Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Time to have a thread of it's own as it's obviously not the pre-season anymore.
Let's start with Childresses post-game comments today:
– Running back Chester Taylor had an MRI on Monday morning and has a “contusion of his oblique.” (I honestly didn’t know this was possible.) “He’s a pretty tough guy so he’ll treat that thing,” Childress said. “There is nothing structurally wrong and it’s just extremely uncomfortable right now. We’ll get that settled down and see where he comes by Wednesday.”
Childress was asked how much Taylor would need to practice this week. “We’ll see, the biggest deal is to settle him down and get him comfortable first,” Childress said. Taylor was at Winter Park early Monday to receive treatment. He also will be back Tuesday when the players are off to get more treatment. If Taylor can’t play it will be the second consecutive year he has missed a game in his homestate. Taylor, who is from the Detroit area, sat out last year’s Vikings-Lions game because of bruised ribs.
– Fullback Naufahu Tahi is “beat up a little bit” but is expected to be all right. Veteran fullback Tony Richardson has a contusion on his forearm and it sounds as if more tests are being done.
– Safety Mike Doss (calf) did some jogging today. “We’ll see how we bring him along before we get to Wednesday,” Childress said. “He continues to improve but those are nagging type of injuries and I’d rather have him for the long haul.”
– Childress gave credit to the fans in the Metrodome. “I thought the first thing, crowd wise, any time you can have three false starts on a team, make them burn two time outs, I think that ends up being a huge, huge thing,” he said. “I thought they really rose to the occassion and not necessarily just on third downs. I thought they did a great job keeping the tempo up. When you see somebody say that’s the loudest place they ever played, that’s what I remember the Metrodome being. It’s a huge advantage to the home team.”
– Childress on the defense: “I thought they did an extremely good job of making [Falcons quarterback Joey Harrington] uncomfortable back there. Virtually from the first snap on. Six sacks, a number of hurries and the hurries and the hits add up as well. No touchdowns allowed. I think the thing we will work on is obviously they gave up 50 percent on third-down conversions [the Falcons were 8-for-16]. That’s something [coordinator Leslie Frazier] and the defensive staff will address. And then two defensive scores. We talk about it all the time and it’s something that you saw in the preseason. We don’t just talk about getting the ball turned over, they practice scoring when we’re on the field. I like where they started but boy there is plenty of stuff as you look at the tape that they can improve on.”
– Childress on the offense: “I thought [we were] very physical on offense. I thought the offensive line did a great job of setting the tempo in the front. When you average 5 yards per run that usually bodes pretty well for you. There were five explosive runs, an explosive pass play. You usually match those against how many explosions did the other team have? How many turnovers did the other team have? I thought they did a good job. We had the one holding penalty at the 35-yard line [on right guard Artis Hicks in the first quarter] I was not happy about but all those pre-snap penalties we eliminated. And then when need to find some explosive plays in the pass game.”
– Childress on the performance of quarterback Tarvaris Jackson (13 of 23 for 163 yards with one touchdown, one interception and a 75.1 rating): “I thought it was pretty even keel, I know there were a couple of throws that he would like to have back. I thought he did a good job of managing things. Could have done a better job of not trying to make that play that got intercepted [in the third quarter]. Live to play another down. I think we were second-and-5 at the time. An incompletion at least is going to take you to third and makeable. … I think he tried to make one happen that didn’t have to make happen. Other than that I thought he played OK.”
– Childress on how running back Mewelde Moore will be used: “I think it ends up sorting itself out just from an injury standpoint or what you need on the defensive side or what you’re looking to feature package wise on the offensive side. I think that will always end up sorting itself out and just know going in a lot of times there are eight players sitting. Now, whether all eight of those guys were in fact viable, for instance Mike Doss this week couldn’t have competed, who knows? … We had three fullbacks up yesterday. There may be a time you have three tailbacks up for a reason or just the package you’re going to put together.”
Moore, of course, was inactive for Sunday’s game.
Let's start with Childresses post-game comments today:
– Running back Chester Taylor had an MRI on Monday morning and has a “contusion of his oblique.” (I honestly didn’t know this was possible.) “He’s a pretty tough guy so he’ll treat that thing,” Childress said. “There is nothing structurally wrong and it’s just extremely uncomfortable right now. We’ll get that settled down and see where he comes by Wednesday.”
Childress was asked how much Taylor would need to practice this week. “We’ll see, the biggest deal is to settle him down and get him comfortable first,” Childress said. Taylor was at Winter Park early Monday to receive treatment. He also will be back Tuesday when the players are off to get more treatment. If Taylor can’t play it will be the second consecutive year he has missed a game in his homestate. Taylor, who is from the Detroit area, sat out last year’s Vikings-Lions game because of bruised ribs.
– Fullback Naufahu Tahi is “beat up a little bit” but is expected to be all right. Veteran fullback Tony Richardson has a contusion on his forearm and it sounds as if more tests are being done.
– Safety Mike Doss (calf) did some jogging today. “We’ll see how we bring him along before we get to Wednesday,” Childress said. “He continues to improve but those are nagging type of injuries and I’d rather have him for the long haul.”
– Childress gave credit to the fans in the Metrodome. “I thought the first thing, crowd wise, any time you can have three false starts on a team, make them burn two time outs, I think that ends up being a huge, huge thing,” he said. “I thought they really rose to the occassion and not necessarily just on third downs. I thought they did a great job keeping the tempo up. When you see somebody say that’s the loudest place they ever played, that’s what I remember the Metrodome being. It’s a huge advantage to the home team.”
– Childress on the defense: “I thought they did an extremely good job of making [Falcons quarterback Joey Harrington] uncomfortable back there. Virtually from the first snap on. Six sacks, a number of hurries and the hurries and the hits add up as well. No touchdowns allowed. I think the thing we will work on is obviously they gave up 50 percent on third-down conversions [the Falcons were 8-for-16]. That’s something [coordinator Leslie Frazier] and the defensive staff will address. And then two defensive scores. We talk about it all the time and it’s something that you saw in the preseason. We don’t just talk about getting the ball turned over, they practice scoring when we’re on the field. I like where they started but boy there is plenty of stuff as you look at the tape that they can improve on.”
– Childress on the offense: “I thought [we were] very physical on offense. I thought the offensive line did a great job of setting the tempo in the front. When you average 5 yards per run that usually bodes pretty well for you. There were five explosive runs, an explosive pass play. You usually match those against how many explosions did the other team have? How many turnovers did the other team have? I thought they did a good job. We had the one holding penalty at the 35-yard line [on right guard Artis Hicks in the first quarter] I was not happy about but all those pre-snap penalties we eliminated. And then when need to find some explosive plays in the pass game.”
– Childress on the performance of quarterback Tarvaris Jackson (13 of 23 for 163 yards with one touchdown, one interception and a 75.1 rating): “I thought it was pretty even keel, I know there were a couple of throws that he would like to have back. I thought he did a good job of managing things. Could have done a better job of not trying to make that play that got intercepted [in the third quarter]. Live to play another down. I think we were second-and-5 at the time. An incompletion at least is going to take you to third and makeable. … I think he tried to make one happen that didn’t have to make happen. Other than that I thought he played OK.”
– Childress on how running back Mewelde Moore will be used: “I think it ends up sorting itself out just from an injury standpoint or what you need on the defensive side or what you’re looking to feature package wise on the offensive side. I think that will always end up sorting itself out and just know going in a lot of times there are eight players sitting. Now, whether all eight of those guys were in fact viable, for instance Mike Doss this week couldn’t have competed, who knows? … We had three fullbacks up yesterday. There may be a time you have three tailbacks up for a reason or just the package you’re going to put together.”
Moore, of course, was inactive for Sunday’s game.
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..It was almost like Childress heard all the complaints last week by the Viking "fans", who after a win, still complained about the QB not throwing deep. So they went deep and 4 INT's later he is getting torn a part.Should have stuck with the "play it close to the vest" game plan and waited for the next home game if he wanted to test TJ's arm.
..It was almost like Childress heard all the complaints last week by the Viking "fans", who after a win, still complained about the QB not throwing deep. So they went deep and 4 INT's later he is getting torn a part.Should have stuck with the "play it close to the vest" game plan and waited for the next home game if he wanted to test TJ's arm.
:(Not that Greenway was a bad pick at #17. But Cutler will be a franchise QB. Can you imagine a nucleus of Cutler, Peterson, and Rice to look forward to as a Vikings fan?
