As a die-hard and well-known Vikings fan, I applaud this move, done way too late. However, the fault is not all on Childress, but the organization as a whole. The Vikes have a maddening habit of building a great team then filling the QB spot last, like an afterthought. Rather than build UP, they work down. Who was the last TRUE franchise Vikes QB? Fran Tarkenton? They either grab someone close to retirement (Favre, Moon, Frerotte, Johnson), out of retirement (Cunningham) or if they do go with a young gun, they get someone whose hype is beyond his talent (Salisbury, Culpepper).
The other BAD habit the Vikes have (and this is the front office part) is staying too long with a bad coach while letting damn good coordinators move on to head coahing jobs elsewhere where they win Super Bowls (Dungy, Tomlin, etc.) If the Vikings were wise, they would do EVERYTHING to keep Leslie Frazier as head coach beyond this upcoming "interim" gig. We NEED a guy like Frazier at the helm. THEN...think QB FIRST in the offseason. Don't go for someone else's castoff (Vince Young comes to mind and would be a classics Minnesota aquisition if things go the way they look in Tennessee.) I mean, they had Jimmy Claussen on a fucking silver platter this past draft, and not only let him go, but traded the pick to Detroit. Even if Claussen was not THE answer, he'd have been a very trainable safety net for an aging Favre and inefficient Jackson.