Vikingland in chaos. Favre lacerated. Moss gone. MN falls to Patriots, 28-18. Vikes, Yikes! 2-5??

First it was Brett's operated on ankle from last season, then tendinitis in his throwing elbow, then two fractures in the aforementioned ankle and now 10 stitches for a laceration to his jaw.

And he's still ticking. SKOL FAVRE! Brett played fine as the Vikes fell to the Patriots, 28-18, and when he was knocked out of the came with that hit to the jaw with about 7:30 remaining in the 4th quarter, we were still in it. Same old same old, I guess. Moss is brought onto the team to help offset the loss of Sidney Rice for half the season - Moss continues with his "I'm a whack-job" routine and Coach Chilly kicks him off the team...without telling the GM or owner. We haven't had a QB sack in three games. Childress sucks as a coach (I mean, he challenged a Patriot reception that blind, dead people could see was an obvious catch.) I like Chilly personally but his coaching skills blow. We have all the talent in the world but can't get IT to CLICK.

We'll see. We play Arizona at home this Sunday. This is a must-win. But - wasn't the last one? Are the rest of the games from here on out? SKOL FAVRE! SKOL VIKINGS. FIRE CHILDRESS!


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Randy Moss! That's cool..wait...but - no....really?

I'd like to renege on this post and replace it with this post. Thank you.

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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!

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Welcome back to Minnesota, Mr. Moss!

The Minnesota Vikings just traded the New England Patriots for WR Randy Moss. SCORE! Moss spent the first part of his NFL career (7 years) with the Vikes (then to Oakland for 2 years and then to New England for 3 years and 4 games). Comes at a good time too as QB Brett Favre has been without his go-to Pro Bowl WR Sidney Rice, at least for the first half of the season due to hip surgery.

So we shall see. I believe it's a good move and a move that can only make the Vikings a stronger team. I will definitely have more to comment on this trade so stay tuned. SKOL FAVRE! SKOL MOSS! SKOL VIKINGS!

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