Big Changes Ahead for the Minnesota Vikings

Big changes are being made for the Minnesota Vikings, in preparation for this Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers.  Coach Brad Childress has decided to bench his 25-year-old quarterback  Tarvaris Jackson, for Gus Frerotte, who according to the Associated Press has played with seven teams in his 15 years in the NFL.  

I'm sure there are many out there who really could care less about such a switch, with the Vikings being such a hopeless team for quite sometime, not winning a single superbowl and not even having played a superbowl game since 1977.  Yet for as long as I can remember, I have been a Vikings fan.  I have Jerry Ball and Randy Moss jerseys hidden in the back of my closet and have been to a number of Vikings games- not one of them resulted in a victory.   So needless to say thanks to my dad's random love for the team, I too have grown to care.  

I'm not going to lie and say I read stats and study the team, but I check out what's going on with the Vikings at the beginning of each season and watch them when I can.  Before this season started, it seemed to me that they were looking pretty good, and I was excited to see how they would turn out during the first couple of games.

 Now facing an 0-2 record, I agree that the Vikings need to make this change.  With Jackson having accuracy issues and only completing 51 percent of his passes, Coach Childress pinpointed what needed to be done.  In a recent interview with the New York Times, Childress comments on the switch he decided to make.  "'I'm just not seeing right now the aggressiveness from Tarvaris that I saw throughout the off-season, training camp, the two preseason games that he played in,' Childress said.  'And part of it may be experience. I know Gus will give us that.  And I know his approach will also lend itself to that.'"

It's hard to say whether or not this is a good decision, but it definitely is a ballsy one, especially since Childress seems pretty set with it.  This could be a smart move just for that fact that the Panthers are 2-0 and I mean what's the worst that could happen?  They've already lost two games, might as well test out new waters.  All I know for sure is that this Sunday's game will definitely be very interesting (at least for me) and the pressure is on for the Vikings to prove that they have something to show for the rest of this season.