Vikings coach Childress was again bombarded with questions

It seems that the media does not like a public mum on Brett Favre’s recent situation, and when they have no way to get anything new from the quarterback himself, they try hard to make someone talk about him. And their recent target is the Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress.

Actually, the reporters did not manage to get anything new out of Childress’ mouth. Following a practice on Wednesday, Childress was a bit surprised when he was surrounded with a group of reporters and asked similar questions to the ones he was asked earlier in the offseason, so he told them the similar answer to what he said last time. The questions were nothing new, and Childress’ answer was also the old one: he had some text message exchanges with Favre but they did not talk about the quarterback’s playing status for 2010 season. It seemed what Childress knows is nothing more than what all other people know already.

Favre stated last month that his doctor suggested him have a surgery to repair his injured ankle, but Favre also said he did not feel like undergoing the surgery right away and whether he was going to have the surgery does not matter much to his decision on whether to wear back his No.4 Brett Favre jersey. However, people have guessed that he would possibly return to finish the remaining one year on his current contract with the Vikings.

Favre will not play in Vikings preseason finale against Cowboys

As most NFL teams rest their starters in the final preseason game, the Minnesota Vikings took the same action on their starting quarterback Brett Favre, who arrived in Minnesota just 16 days ago.

It was in purpose of avoiding the risk of injury with the regular season a week away, especially necessary for the 39-year-old quarterback. Three days after his arrival, Favre put on the No. 4 vikings jersey and played his first game for the Vikings, looking every bit as rusty as could be expected with 1 for 4 for 4 yards in two series against the Kansas City Chiefs. But his performance became better and better afterwards, completing 13 of 18 passes for 142 yards and a touchdown while playing into the third quarter of a 17-10 win at Houston.

“I thought he made a nice jump from Week 1 to Week 2 and showed he’s got a good understanding of what we’re doing,” Vikings coach Brad Childress said.

Before the Vikings open the regular season on Sept. 13 at Cleveland, Favre and the rest of his offensive starters spend the entire week on practicing to fine-tune things.

Vikings QB Jackson continues rehab work

After skipping Sunday practice, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson missed both practices again on Monday while doing rehab work on his left knee injury caused by an accident on Saturday practice.

Jackson has spent time with his teammates outside the training camp since spraining his MCL on Saturday, but at the moment he was only able to ride a bicycle and do some light jogging. Because he still walked with a slight limp, he has to watch practice while wearing a sleeve on his knee.

Coach Brad Childress said taht he is not sure about when Jackson will return to the team but is confident he will be just fine. Childress said Jackson will return whe has the ability to protect himself while playing. So we will not wait long before seeing Jackson wearing his vikings jersey again.