Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times, a former beat writer of the Vikings peeled back the onion of open player revolt against Childress when he talked to Minnesota players in the run up to Sunday’s Vikings-Bears tilt in Chicago.
“We know that Childress doesn’t have our backs, so why should we have his?” one player said. “We’re playing for us, and we’re winning despite him.”
“He has absolutely no people skills,” said another team source regarding Childress.
“As much as I hate Childress, I will keep playing,” said another unnamed player.
It’s the old we are united because we hate his guts routine.
That’s like a grenade waiting for the pin to be pulled.
For his part, Childress seems content to keep tossing gasoline on the fire as his post-game comments lead to the conclusion that he is throwing his players under the bus. That was the case following the Vikings loss to Green Bay back on Oct. 24 when Childress ripped Brett Favre.
“For a lot of guys, that was a turning point,” a Vikings player said.
Worse than losing the players, the Sun-Times story said that Childress has lost some of his assistant coaches as they backed receiver Percy Harvin for his run-in with Childress at a practice last Friday.
