Vikings Bench Tarvaris Jackson Go With Gus Frerotte

by Jimmy on Sep 17, 2008 3:05 PM CDT in News

The Vikings must be paying attention to what is going on in Nashville because today they have decided to bench 3rd year quarterback Tarvaris Jackson in favor of veteran Gus Frerotte

The similarities between this Vikings situation and the situation here with Vince Young and Kerry Collins are very similar. Both teams think they have a shot at having a very special season because both have excellent running games and excellent defenses. Both Jackson and VY were guys that were thought to be able to do a lot of special things from the quarterback position. Both teams have apparently decided they are better in the hands of a veteran who should take care of the ball than an inconsistent younger quarterback with a lot of upside.

The only difference is the Titans are 2-0 and the Vikings are 0-2.

The move in Nashville worked great in week 1 of the experiment. It will be interesting to see if the Vikings have a similar experince. We will get to see the Vikings and Frerotte next week in Nashville.

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Hmm...

The similarities between this situation and the situation here with Vince Young and Kerry Collins are very similar.

The similarities are very similar? How insightful!

Haha, just playin, Jimmy.

If I hit a hole-in-one on this grand slam the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

by jasonkylebates on Sep 17, 2008 3:39 PM CDT 0 recs

You like that

That was from the redundancy department of redundancy.

Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles

by Jimmy on Sep 17, 2008 4:26 PM CDT up 0 recs

Like the vikes

So hopefully they will have some success (although not too much success when they play the Titans…)

by numbertenox on Sep 17, 2008 4:37 PM CDT 0 recs

Cutting Jackson was not a real suprising move, given the events of Sunday

the Vikings should have won that one. Jackson has struggled with consistency.
It is unfortunate about Sanders, he is a terriffic player. I don’t feel sorry for the Colts team though, just for Sanders.

by Joy Kat on Sep 17, 2008 4:38 PM CDT 0 recs

I did not mean cutting, I meant benching

by Joy Kat on Sep 17, 2008 4:38 PM CDT 0 recs

Joy Kat--

I’m proud of you! I really thought you would be all over this Collins/Young thing. You have been calling this for a while. I still hope you are wrong about VY in the long term, but i do have to give you some credit.

by gotitans27 on Sep 17, 2008 9:23 PM CDT up 0 recs

I heard that Fisher

was thinking about hiring Joy Kat as the new QB coach. Is that true??

by JimR on Sep 17, 2008 11:04 PM CDT up 0 recs

I watched a lot of this game..

and the playcalling was the biggest reason why the Vikings lost this game not Tavaris Jackson. I’m not saying Jackson is anything special but he is most certainly the scapegoat for Brad Childress. Looking at the Viking’s blog the past few days and they’ve said a lot of the same things..

by b3tts32 on Sep 17, 2008 8:00 PM CDT 0 recs

I haven't looked at the Vikes' blog

but I agree with that. You have to sack up now and then and go for the TD when you get down that close. And I still can’t figure out why Major Dad, er, Brad Childress doesn’t try to get Peterson the ball in space on some swing passes and jailbreak screens and whatnot.

Yay, sports.

by MDC on Sep 17, 2008 9:05 PM CDT up 0 recs