Five Personnel Questions That Could Impact the Minnesota Vikings’ Playbook

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Published: May 14, 2009

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... The handful of new faces on Minnesota’s staff—an assistant special teams coach, a player development assistant, and an assistant to the head coach—aren’t exactly the makings of a shake-up, and head coach Brad Childress will go to work with the same group of coordinators that ran the show in ’08. Then again, Childress has maintained throughout his three-year tenure at the helm that he’s looking to improve his players, not his plays. After the Vikings managed just three first downs and 104 total yards in a Week 16 loss to Green Bay in 2006—en route to franchise lows of 272 first downs and 13 touchdown passes on the year—Childress insisted that his is “a kick-ass offense when it's executed properly.” But while a shift in coaching philosophy is unlikely, a handful of roster changes might compel Childress and his staff to tinker with a few sections of the playbook, whether to play up new strengths or cover for unexpected weaknesses. Here, we’ll examine five Viking...

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