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Free Agency Quick Hits: Fred Evans, Erin Henderson, Visanthe Shiancoe

Dan Zinski — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:13:54 +0000

Nov 21, 2010; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe (81) runs a route against the Green Bay Packers in the first quarter at the Metrodome. The Packers win 31-3. Mandatory Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn-US PRESSWIRE

A few quick hitters related to some Vikings free agents:

Don’t expect Fred Evans back. The Vikings gave Letroy Guion a 3-year deal for $3 million per with an eye toward making him the starting nose tackle. Remi Ayodele will be the primary back-up. Evans’ departure is expected to reduce by half the Vikings’ number of offsides penalties.

The Vikings have no offer on the table for Erin Henderson. He is out there testing the market right now with no notion of what the Vikings think he’s worth. There is evidently some disagreement within the Vikings organization over Henderson’s value. Fred Pagac apparently loves him but Mike Singletary isn’t sold. This begs the question: Who gives a crap what Mike Singletary thinks about anything?

Visanthe Shiancoe has a visit lined up with Seattle. Darrell Bevell, Tarvaris Jackson and Sidney Rice are already there. Steve Hutchinson could also be returning to the Pacific Northwest. The 2008 Vikings are slowly being reassembled in Seattle. Maybe Bernard Berrian should give those guys a call. Just kidding, no one wants him.

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Adam Schein Destroys Tarvaris Jackson and Darrell Bevell (Video)

Dan Zinski — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:03 +0000

<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=77c9b137-fe19-4937-ace7-c75b10fe4915" target="_new" title="">Schein: Tarvaris looking terrible</a>

It isn’t only bitter Viking fans who are blasting the Seahawks for reuniting Tarvaris Jackson and Darrell Bevell – non-biased national media figures are doing it too. Adam Schein? He ain’t high on Bevell-Jackson. But he is high on something, unless that’s how he regularly talks when he’s on TV, in which case…damn.

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Pete Carroll Sells Tarvaris Jackson By Slamming Vikings

Dan Zinski — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:59:14 +0000

Selling Tarvaris Jackson as the starter won’t be easy for coach Pete Carroll and the rest of the Seahawks organization. Fans know Jackson was mediocre at best with the Vikings, and at times flat-out terrible. They know he was dismal in his only playoff appearance and that he never would’ve been in that one playoff game in the first place had Gus Frerotte not suffered an injury down the stretch, forcing the Vikings to go back to Jackson whom they’d benched earlier that year. They also know the Vikings’ lack of faith in Jackson was what prompted the team to bring Brett Favre out of retirement not once but twice. Yes Seahawks fans, the Vikings chose to take their chances with an aging, immobile quarterback rather than ride with T-Jack. And now he’s the man upon whose shoulders your coach has placed your team’s immediate future.

There’s no use going over T-Jack’s inadequacies again in any detail – we’ve all heard that song so many times it makes us want to puke. Suffice it to say, Tarvaris is simply not a very good quarterback, and has very little chance of ever significantly improving. We know this because we watched him for five years – watched him never learn how to read defenses, watched his confidence never seem to increase, watched him leave games over the merest of injuries (the kind of stuff Brett Favre would’ve barely even felt).

Despite these realities, Pete Carroll and Darrel Bevell are ready to roll the dice on T-Jack one more time, apparently believing they can get something out of him that was never extracted in Minnesota. They’ve sold themselves on T-Jack’s value, and now they’re trying to sell their fans on it too. This is a very tough sell, for all the reasons outlined above, but Pete Carroll has a strategy in mind. This strategy is built upon a phrase Viking fans have become all-too-familiar with over the past couple of years:

Tarvaris Jackson never got a fair shake in Minnesota.

Or, in Pete Carroll’s own rather more colorful words, “He’s been jerked around. We wanted to put him in a stable situation.”

So T-Jack is like a dog that got kicked around by mean people but after all that trial and tribulation has finally found a home where he’ll be loved and cared for? And now that T-Jack is in the right kind of nurturing environment he’ll finally blossom into the quarterback he always could have been?

Riiiiiiight.
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