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I don’t think Brett’s huge head is looming over Minnesota like last year…
Brad Childress hasn’t talked with Brett Favre recently and doesn’t plan to visit him anytime soon. This has all the inklings of another long and drawn-out process to see if Brett Favre will play next season. For me though, I can kind of live with it because Childress is involved–even if he seems like Favre’s man-servant.
Brad Childress is keeping his distance and minimizing the issue by making his own news, choosing when he visits Favre, and keeping it all under wraps. Childress is doing the best he can to keep a firestorm from exploding over the Vikings AND he’s making their draft positions much more firm because now everyone is left guessing–not because they don’t know what Favre will do, but because we all now think that Childress is the only person who is in “the know”.
It would be one thing to try to predict what the Vikings are going to do if Favre was calling the shots, but with Childress making his own news it seems like the Vikings are free to do as they please. It almost feels like they have a plan for everything. That’s very encouraging considering that they had such a good season, but such a horrible letdown against the Saints in the NFC Title Game.
If I were a GM I’d be looking to take advantage of a desperate Vikings team, but now I wouldn’t want to mess with them because they seem in control of the situation and they haven’t looked that way in a long time. This could be a new look Vikings that might even be able to move past Favre if he doesn’t come back OR if next year is his last year.
I’m proud of Brad Childress for taking more control of the situation. He’s got it right this time and that bodes well for the Vikings in 2010.
