Minnesota Vikings Fire Brad Childress, Promote Leslie Frazier

A 3-7 record was apparently too much for Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf to overlook. Head coach Brad Childress has been informed that he has lost his job and defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier will be named interim head coach.

FOX Sports’ Jay Glazer first reported the move.

Childress strapped his entire future to Brett Favre’s right arm, and needless to say things have not gone well. The team has completely imploded and is basically out of the playoffs absent a six-game winning streak and some help to close out the season.

Frazier was going to be a head coach somewhere, it just happened to be sooner than anyone thought coming into this season. If he can get the team to do well these last six weeks, he could earn a spot as the team’s permanent head coach.

The big question now is what he does with Favre. It’s no secret the future Hall of Famer hasn’t been playing well, but then again neither has the entire team. I don’t believe removing Favre helps, in fact I think it still hurts. If Favre can’t get anything done with the way the guys around him are playing, what will Tarvaris Jackson be able to do?

Some would argue that Favre is part of the problem, but I’m always going to give the future Hall of Fame quarterback the benefit of the doubt that he’s not even a majority fraction of the problem.

Perhaps Childress was the problem. Perhaps it’s something else that Frazier will recognize and handle. But at 3-7, there’s little chance anything Frazier does now puts the Vikings into the playoffs for this season.