Dismissed Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress had lost the support of his players, WR Bernard Berrian said Tuesday. Childress, Berrian told Sirius NFL Radio, "was too confrontational" in his management style. The Vikings fired him on Monday after a 3-7 start and elevated defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier to interim head coach. Childress was under fire for weeks as the Vikings failed to live up to expectations after losing in overtime of the NFC title game last year. Earlier this month, several unnamed Vikings harshly criticized Childress to the Chicago Sun-Times, and Berrian gave voice to more of their complaints about the ex-coach on Tuesday. "He was just confrontational," Berrian told Sirius. "I think that was the biggest thing. Instead of, you know, going to players like men and just talking and conversating about it, it was kind of brought to their attention in a confrontational way and just people just didn't really conform to that way of, I guess, him talking and speaking to his team, or players individually." Source: USA Today
