Sep 21st 2008 4:30PM by JJ Cooper (author feed)
Filed under: Panthers, Vikings, NFC North, NFC South
It was kind of shocking when Brad Childress announced early this week that Gus Frerotte was replacing Tarvaris Jackson as the Vikings’ starting quarterback. The surprise wasn’t that Frerotte would start ahead of Jackson–he’s a better quarterback at this point, but the shocker was that Childress would admit he had made a mistake by sticking with Jackson all these years.
But today we saw why he made the decision. Adrian Peterson played, but he doesn’t seem to have the same explosiveness he usually has which explains why his longest run was only 14 yards. And with a human Adrian Peterson, it’s hard to imagine just how bad the Vikings’ offense would be with Jackson under center. When Jackson was at quarterback, the entire Vikings offense was based off of handing the ball to Peterson. Even when Jackson was asked to throw, it was usually on roll outs that fed off of defenses’ tendencies to bring a safety up to stop the run.
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