Brad Childress: good or bad?

[hifigator]

As a coach, I think that Childress is rather inept. He isn't really good in any angle that I can think of.

That being said, I am totally with him with his verbal outrage on the officials.

I have no real dog in the fight other than wanting Percy Harvin to do well. So I guess I did want the Vikings to win, but I certainly didn't have a strong feeling either way. Still, Shiancoe's catch was a touchdown. But it wasn't. The Packers questionable touchdown wasn't. But it was. Harvin's catch late in the game wasn't a touchdown. But it was ... at least at first. They did get that one right on review, but still, you have to point the finger at the ref several times on that one play. I understand that his view was obstructed. But that was his fault. All he had to do was use common sense and he would have almost instinctively put himself in position to have a clear and unobstructed view. Even so, if he didn't see it, he should have deferred to the ref on the far side ... or at least asked him. A distant but unobstructed view is better than a blind guess from closer. Lastly, the only reason Harvin came down out of bounds anyway was a blatant 2 hands to the chest shove from a Packer defender who wasn't even looking back to the ball at all.

The bottom line is that the game was incredibly poorly officiated.

The worst part is that the best thing Childress did was voicing his disapproval of the officiating and for that he will probably get fined.

What say you all?

[Boz]

A. Force outs are legal in the NFL.

B. Even if they weren't, Percy Harvin was barely even touched.

Get over it.

[hifigator]

Boz, I know that they got rid of the force out rule in the NFL. I wasn't suggesting trying to suggest otherwise. My point was that the contact was obvious and well before the ball got there. Additionally, while you are given a lot more latitude for contact when you are "playing the ball," or at least looking back for the ball, that type of contact almost always sends up a red flag ... resulting in a yellow flag. You are right that the contact wasn't criminal, but when you look at the replay from the endzone corner camera (what would be the endline extended behind the ref who made the call) you see that Harvin jumped straight up and then after his feet left the ground started drifting backwards, from the momentum of the shove. I'm not trying to make a big deal about that one part of the play, but rather adding it to the list of bad calls.

And by the way, I am over it. I don't really care one way or the other. And I must agree with what I would predict RDF's sentiment would be: anything that speeds up the finality of Mr. Open Fly Jeans career is a good thing anyway.