Two days removed from the Vikings' loss at Arizona, Minnesota coach Brad Childress is still is disappointed that his team came out flat and was manhandled by the more physical Cardinals in all facets of the game. "As far as I was concerned, really a complete step out of character for our football team," Childress told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "Whether you want to talk about turnovers, big plays against, lack of explosive (plays) on our part, explosives on their part. We haven't seen that and that was disappointing. We just got away from some of our base tenets, and it starts with the fact that football is a physical game by nature and I thought they took it to us. I thought they did a great job and they took it to us in all three phases. That's something in the long run that I'm accountable for and part of the accountability is identifying it and having everybody own it and then learn from it going forward." Source: SportingNews.com
Childress just got flat outcoached in that game. The game plane put together by Whisenhunt and his coordinators had the Vikings scrambling from the first snap. Blame physicality all you want, you just got outcoached.
