Did Childress waive Moss without first talking to Vikings?
Brad Childress must be confused because apparently he thinks he’s Bill Belichick and has the authority to make big boy decisions without first consulting his bosses.
According to NFL.com’s Jason LaCanfora, Childress informed Vikings players in a meeting on Monday that Randy Moss would be waived but apparently some within the Minnesota organization weren’t on board with their head coach’s decision. Furthermore, Moss hasn’t formerly be waived yet.
Rut-roh.
What was Childress thinking? He has the right to voice his opinion when it comes to the team’s 53-man roster, but this isn’t like cutting the No. 6 cornerback or a backup long-snapper. This was a major decision in which all of the Vikings’ brass should have been involved. You don’t just cut a player four weeks after the front office gave up a third round pick to acquire him. How stupid.
When he heard the news, my cohort here at TSR John Paulsen asked me this via Skype: “Do you think Childress gets canned before Moss gets waived?”
My response? “If the Vikings are smart – yes.”
Sounds like Childress made a power play to me. Put the ownership in a situation where they essentially had to either cut Moss or fire Childress, since overriding him on Moss after he had talked to the team about it would completely lose him the locker room (if he hasn’t already).
I don’t necessarily think cutting Moss was all that dumb a move, they almost certainly weren’t going to resign him and this looks like a lost season anyway. Trading for him in the first place, however, now looks completely ridiculous. Randy Moss is not an enigma, they should have known what they were getting.
First of all, I’d like to commennd you guys on the photo (and usually all your photos!).
It looks like Childress just read your article and he’s like, “Awww, man! Whadda my stoopid?”
That being said, Prince or Kirby Puckett would be a better head coach right now . . .
(Actually, that would be pretty awesome if Prince was there on the sidelines in his “Purple Rain” outfit, looking all smug, doing a spin move and the splits when the Vikings score . . .)
Now that would be a great photo, Jester!