Brad Childress gets the nod over Mike Tice. As bad as the randy ratio was (telling the whole league your offensive game plan) Childress made the dumbest decisions, ran the most basic and predictible plays, and had no lockeroom control. fukk em
agree with this 100%
tice also had the smallest coaching staff (some coaches pulling double duty).
red mccombs was the owner at the time and during the tice era. red would eseentially pocket the cap space and not spend money on defense - putting tice in a huge disadvantage.
tice was aloof but a likeable guy, a former player and at the very least a good offensive line coach (previously).
on the other hand, childress was a curmudgeon; a know-it-all psych major that thought he was always right with his mind games.
he had a fallout with culpepper at the pro-bowl (when childress was with the eagles) and once he became vikings coach badmouthed and leaked negative info to the media (about culpepper not rehabbing properly, etc). that relationship was over before it even started.
let's not forget, this was the same guy that ultimately got t.owens booted off the eagles. it was childress that egged owens on to make him lose his cool.
hardly any of the players even liked him. he cut marcus robinson on christmas eve (on purpose, not only to prove a point but to humiliate him) after robinson said something about the offense being too conservative. he also fined troy williamson for not coming back in time after williamson went back home to grieve the loss of his grandmother (the woman who had raised him).
he was super arrogant; taking credit for "developing" mcnabb and having a "kick-ass offense," which btw, vikings offense ranked toward the bottom almost every year, sans the good favre year. this egg-head, eventually wound up having problems with favre too in regard to play calling - used to get pissed off if any of the qb's audibled out of a play.
last but not least, getting rid of randy moss (mainly because randy praised NE) and childress with his ego, couldn't take this type of "insubordination". he didn't notify mark wilf (part owner and vikings president) beforehand, when it was wilf that was instrumental in getting randy back to minnesota in the first place. consequently, that move, the teams sub-par performance and his history of butting heads is what lead to his firing.
imo, he's by far the worst coach we've ever had, even worse than les steckel (with a 3-13 season at that).
