Sell your stock in Minnesota
The Minnesota Vikings, as everybody already knows, have been a supreme disappointment. With only two wins to their name, they’ve quickly fallen from the Super Bowl discussion. Some will point to Sidney Rice being on the PUP list. Others will point to Brett Favre being old and banged up. Yet others will point to a decline in play by the defense. Quite frankly, the problems start right at the top of the sideline hierarchy: the head coach, Brad Childress.
The team’s feelings about their leader are summed up nicely in one singular event: an altercation between Childress and wide receiver Percy Harvin. When a star player nearly comes to blows with the coach, and multiple players approve of the player’s actions against said coach, you have a serious problem that runs deeper than injuries and degrading quarterback play.
Then look at the whole Randy Moss situation. Childress decides to cut him without following proper protocol as set by the team’s front office. Announces it to the team before he even talks to Moss or his agent. A move the team obviously was not on-board with given a report today that the Vikings tried to see if he’d come back before they officially released him. This is the stuff of soap operas.
If I own a Minnesota Vikings player, I’m seriously concerned because this is a team that is very likely to quit on Childress. As we saw in Dallas in Week 8, when your team just isn’t committed to the guy leading you, it’s very easy to lose interest in the game all together. I’d say the situation in Minnesota is even more dire.
So if I owned any player not named Adrian Peterson in Minnesota, I would look to deal them if in a redraft format. This is a toxic environment where you really do have to be concerned about whether you’ll get consistent performances out of your players. Thankfully, you can probably get a good return on players like Harvin, who has played well in the last four games.
