Tidbit

Adrian Peterson is happy with our (still unannounced - officially anyway) hire of Norv Turner as OC.  (So am I for that matter, but my opinion doesn't matter as much as his does.)

Says it's just what this offense needs to click.

Please, oh, please Viking Gods, let that be true!

And then there were three?

Okay, taking a closer look at things since the Saints-Seahawks game is starting to bore me.

It seems we have three guys "slated" (per the rumor mill) for second interviews: Todd Bowles (DC for the Cardinals), Mike Zimmer (DC for the Bengals) and Greg Roman (OC for the 49ers).  No real talk about Wisenhunt anymore which makes me think he's negotiating with another team and I just haven't heard about it.

Still, it has JUST come out that Dan Quinn will be the next head coach of the Tennessee Titans, per anonymous "sources" so maybe we're still in the running for Wisenhunt?

Hmm.

Chef Michael Symon is tweeting that he wants Darrell Bevell for his Browns.  We had a little exchange about it, but he's welcome to Bevell.  We lost that NFC championship game because he didn't adjust (okay, that Peterson fumble and the Saints playing dirty had a lot to do with it too) and I don't want a coach who doesn't adjust.  As I told Chef Symon, Urban Meyer doesn't adjust either, and look at his nasty, big-game losses recently.

I do not like big-game losses.

Hell, I don't like any losses.

I just want to know who will be our new coach - and our  new quarterback!!

SKOL!

Vikings Coaching Tidbit

We're bringing Zimmer in for a second interview.  No peeps about Wisenhunt. 

As one of the guys on the Hoop's Viking board pointed out, Speilman wants to clean house, so it's unlikely Bevell gets the top job.

Guessing Zimmer looks like our man right about now?

It's Official!

Leslie Frazier IS going to be the Tampa Bay DC, even though people were talking about Rod Marinelli (a Cowboys assistant coach) but apparently Dallas wouldn't let the Bucs talk to him.  I wonder what Rod thinks about that?

I guess I'm happy for Frazier.  But after what Chris Kluwe has been alleging...if he really just sat back and let Priefer rule the locker room with bias and discrimination...blah.  I hope the Vikings take these allegations seriously.  Look at the Dolphins, Vikings.  Look at the Dolphins hard.

Vikings Thought of the Day

I've seen a lot of bitching - a LOT - about how the Vikings need to "trade up" and "pick the right guy right away".

Look.

It's not about the highest pick.  The reason the Detroit Loins have Calvin Johnson is because he was there at #2 when the Oakland Raiders took JaMarcus Russell #1.  It's about the RIGHT pick in the RIGHT spot at the RIGHT time.

Hell, even the right trade.  Remember how we got Jared Allen?
The Steelers and the Patriots almost always do well, so they invariably get "bad" (aka, low) picks, and somehow they keep getting studs and keep winning and keep performing!

Do you know WHY?

It's because they have good quarterbacks, that's why.

Same with Green Bay.  They lost Rodgers, and look what happened?  A demoralized Vikings team tied them!

The Vikings are exactly 3 players away from contending for the #1 spot in the NFC North: a QB, an MLB and an OLB.

I say we can get all of those.

We just need STUDS. 

And I say we can get those.


SKOL!

RUMOR ALERT: LESLIE FRAZIER

WOAH - news just hit the twitterverse that Leslie Frazier may have been picked up by new Bucs coach Lovie Smith as their Defensive Coordinator!!

I hope this is true.  He's a good coach, and I think he'd be happier and do a better job as DC.  Plus, the weather is much better in Tampa...lol

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NFL Tidbit

Ex-Bears coach Lovie Smith is "finalizing" a deal with Tampa Bay to be the Buccaneers' new head coach.  Good for him!  I'd feel weird having him as a coach for myself but I certainly respected him as a competitor.  Glad he's got a job - one we won't run across him much in either, ha!


Also, Bridgewater has officially declared for the draft.  Color me shocked...not!

SKOL!