Sources: Wilf still contemplating firing Childress

[JonLP24]

After Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf spoke with members of the organization, including players, prior to Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals, he left some with the impression he was still contemplating firing coach Brad Childress regardless of whether the Vikings won or lost, several sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen.

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Before the win, members of the Vikings organization, including players, offered vivid descriptions of the environment Childress has created around the team facility, including "we're walking on eggshells" ... "the air has been sucked out of the building" ... "nobody's having any fun."

Childress should have already coached his last game, some Minnesota players told ESPN's Ed Werder.

One veteran said: "I think there was a great window of opportunity this past week to make a change."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5776714

I also found something interesting about this story if you believe anonymous sources. I got the part I'm referring to on bold font.

Percy Harvin: Dispute with Brad Childress over MRI

Percy Harvin said his heated dispute with Brad Childress last Friday was over an MRI the Minnesota Vikings receiver didn't want to take but that he and the coach are "fine" now.

"We had a little dispute," Harvin said, according to the Star Tribune. "It wasn't what people thought it was about. It was about whether I was going to get an MRI or not. It was a little dispute, but we settled it. Me and Coach are fine."

Team sources told ESPN's Ed Werder that the confrontation between Harvin and Childress grew so heated Friday afternoon that coaches and players were forced to separate them to prevent a physical exchange.

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After the two were separated, according to sources, a teammate told Harvin: "You just did what a lot of us have been wanting to say for years."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5780137

If you believe the sources, Childress is losing the players if he hasn't already. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[TZ]

1. Childress is basically a "dead man walking" (excuse the morbid metaphor)

Honestly, I think its a race to see who is fired first...him or Wade Phillips...I just can't see either of them making it through the season the way things stand now.

[JonLP24]

2. You might be interested in this

(I thought of posting it as an OP but I'm sure mad has had enough of Cowboys' threads)

Jerry Jones: People will suffer for Dallas Cowboys' demise

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It marked the first time that Jones, who has never fired a coach midseason, did not assure the media that Phillips would remain Dallas' coach for the rest of the season. The 1-7 Cowboys have lost five consecutive games.

"There are a lot of people here who are certainly going to suffer and suffer consequences," Jones said. "I'm talking about within the team -- players, coaches who have got careers. This is certainly a setback. I know firsthand what it is to have high expectations. I think unquestionably that our expectations were thinking we're something we were not, possibly looking at what might be relative to a Super Bowl. All of those things have certainly contributed early.

"But we have so many things that we need to correct and address, as this game so vividly exposed and previous games have. I've got a lot of work to do, got a lot of decisions to make. And it's not just one, two, three or four. There are several decisions. I think everybody in this country would agree that there's a lot wrong with this team that we've got to address, and I'm certainly the one to address it."

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"I can't put my finger on it because I don't have enough fingers," Jones said. -- Jerry Jones, on what's wrong with the Cowboys

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5779311

[TZ]

3. lol. I said this elsewhere

reading about Phillips being MIA at their training facility today...He should sign himself up for the federal witness program right now.....:scared:

[bluedigger]

4. He's there...for now...

"Although his leased SUV was not in its customary parking spot Monday morning, Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips was seen at Valley Ranch by several team employees."

"Cowboys officials are still planning a 4 p.m. CT news conference with Phillips."

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5779968

tick, tick, tick...

[Iggo]

5. He's done contemplating.

Childress is done. The question is "When?".

[joeybee12]

6. wilf?

Wacko I'd like to....??????

[JonLP24]

7. !!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[joeybee12]

8. That's the first thing that came to my mind...to my dirty, filthy, depraved

mind!

[TZ]

9. !

Joey FTW! You are pretty A-Okay for a Cheatriots fan...;)