Pro Football Talk reports that, according to scuttlebutt around the league, the Vikings are looking to add a veteran QB to the roster, perhaps before training camp. This of course is what I’ve been saying they needed to do all along – it is what all reasonable Viking fans have been wanting them to do. Tarvaris Jackson may turn out to be a great QB one day, but he is awfully green, and turning the team over to him with nothing but Brooks Bollinger as a back-up would just be foolhardy.
Brad Childress, however, seemed reticent to acknowledge this – he kept talking about how much faith he had in Tarvaris and Brooks, kept getting defensive when people suggested they should’ve gone after Matt Schaub or David Carr. But guess what? Childress’s apparent stubborn refusal to look at veteran QB options was not real after all – it was another in a long line of Childress smokescreens, designed to keep other teams from catching on to his ingenious plan for winning the Super Bowl and perhaps even conquering the universe.
Yes, Brad Childress was fibbing when he insisted that Tarvaris and Brooks were his QBs and he had no interest in finding a veteran. He always had his feelers out for a veteran – as long as he didn’t have to pay a lot for one, and as long as he didn’t have to bring in some guy like Daunte Culpepper who was going to cause him headaches. He passed on Matt Schaub because the price was too high, and passed on David Carr because, in his own words, he never liked Carr’s mechanics. When all is said and done, we will probably wind up with Kelly Holcomb, or perhaps a reject from the Jaguars like David Garrard (once the Jags get around to signing Culpepper). Whatever happens, you can be sure paranoid bullpoop-artist Brad Childress will not be giving anything away ahead of time.