Archive for March, 2011

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You can’t slip anything by Tarvaris Jackson. T-Jack has read the writing on the wall over there at Winter Park and determined there is very little chance the team will attempt to retain his rights by hitting him with an RFA tender before the Thursday deadline. He must have one of those super-charged Charlie Sheen brains. Jackson revealed in a text message his flash of insight about the Vikings’ plan not to tag him. The lack of tagging will mean that, once the CBA thing is straightened out, T-Jack will be a free agent. I’m no NFL insider but my guess is teams [...]

It’s never a good thing when your head coach gets fired halfway through the season, because it means you’re having a terrible season. This was certainly the case for the Vikings when Zygi Wilf elected to end Brad Childress’ tenure with 6 weeks remaining in 2010. At that point the Vikings were all-but-eliminated from playoff contention at 3-7. Just two weeks before they seemed to resurrect their season with a stunning late-game comeback against the Cardinals; unfortunately they followed that gutty victory up with consecutive pitiful losses to division rivals Chicago and Green Bay. The second loss, a 31-3 embarrassment [...]

It’s fair to say most fans won’t be too sad when the Vikings finally part ways with over-paid, under-performing, oft-tweeting wide receiver Bernard Berrian. Thankfully, according to Adam Schefter, we won’t have to wait much longer for that divorce to happen. Schefter lists Berrian as one of several big-name players who could be cut by their teams this week. Were the Vikings to keep Berrian for 2011 they would have to pay him $3.9 million. That’s not a huge number, but clearly the team could find better ways of using that money than paying a guy who in 2010 managed [...]