The Minnesota Vikings’ Coaching Staff: An Offensive Profile

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Published: May 20, 2009

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... notion that he was the team’s savior.

“I'm just passing along what I've learned from great coaches over 30 years, ya know?" Childress told ESPN The Magazine during training camp that August. "This stuff is not revolutionary."

Even as a mere mortal, however, Childress has spent the last three years remaking the Vikings in his own image.

He swept out the easygoing ways of predecessor and “player’s coach” Mike Tice in favor of a discipline-oriented, sweat-the-little-things regime. He drafted a pet project at quarterback. And he assembled his cast of coordinators and assistants from the familiar pool of the coaching circles through which he’s traveled in his career.

Childresses’ fourth year on the job—his third straight campaign with the same offensive and defensive coordinators—will make or break the fiefdom he’s built in Minnesota. If the Vikings capture a second consecutive NFC No...

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