Favre. #500 TD pass/70,000 passing yards (in a loss to the Jets)! Vikings, 1-3

What do you do when your team (Minnesota Vikings) only plays a 1/4 of a game of football?

Vikes got beat by the New York Jets, 29-20, in a torrential, rain-delayed Monday Night game yesterday. I'm at a loss for words. The Vikes are now 1-3 and face Dallas (1-3) at home Sunday. Two powerhouses who are struggling. One team's gonna be in really deep shit after next week's game.

Aside from Brett Favre's milestones of reaching 70,000 yards passing and his 500th TD (he had 3 on the night), the offense sputtered for most of the game. See Favre to Randy Moss for No. 500 here. Percy Harvin had two nice TDs...all for naught. Dammit!

From Daily Norseman: "The First Three and a Half Quarters: It was the most inept play calling I have ever seen. Can you, or anyone, tell me what the hell Bevell and Childress were thinking? The players sure didn’t. Said Percy Harvin: "If we had come out and had some of the play calling we had in the second half, I think it would be a different outcome."

Said Favre (pulled from Kevin Seifert’s excellent NFC North Blog on ESPN): Favre said he was "thinking aloud" when he suggested that Childress and Bevell were trying to find something that worked. "Sometimes you go in with a plan and it doesn't really work out that way," Favre said, noting the Vikings found a "happy medium" during a second half in which he threw for 233 yards.

Daily Norseman: So I go back to my point that I made earlier about Childress or Bevell: It’s either stubbornness or stupidity at this point. They’re not dumb guys; at least they don’t come off as such. So it must be stubbornness. Either way, the maddening inability to change gameplans on the fly will doom this team if they don’t get it fixed. I’m all about just letting Favre play sandlot football, and see what happens. It can’t be any worse than that craptastic game plan we saw last night, can it? Can it?

SKOL FAVRE! SKOL VIKINGS!