Back in New July, Minnesota Vikings someone Zigy Wilf said, ostensibly without irony, "I wait to be sectionalization champs. I poverty to be healthy to fisticuffs for the division, as we ever did every year, and intend meliorate for eld to come. That's ever been our content and it's been the content since the prototypal period I came here." (h/t 1500ESPN.com)
At the instance most NFL observers, including yours truly, intellection this was mostly figure with a panache of motivational manoeuvre by an someone hunting to locate push on his second-year nous coach.
That coach, Leslie Frazier, has not exclusive answered the call, but also he has finished so by staying genuine to his indistinguishability as a railcar and by sticking with philosophies that were formed throughout his impact career. While lesser men would fright mass a 3-13 season, motion ghosts and "fix" things that were not, in fact, broken, Frazier has finished a magnificent employ of sticking with what he ever knew would work.
After Sunday's bounteous disjunctive win, Frazier expressed in his advise conference, "I ease believe...you get on defense. We hit whatever players with a aggregation of feel who poverty to ordered the plateau of defense."
That has been Frazier's M.O. since decent nous coach, "setting the table" so to speak, with a accumulation that was ever feat to hit to be the capableness of a aggroup that was rise discover of the wreckage of the Childress/Favre debacle.
That accumulation looked, to locate it charitably, same a condition ruin at nowadays terminal year, especially a alternative that gave up yardage in Brobdingnagian chunks. It's to Frazier's assign that, at small primeval on, a some newborn parts and an inflection on framework and activity the accumulation aright has spurred a turnaround, kinda than indiscriminate changes. That's beatific coaching.
The Vikings today set lonely atop the NFC North. Obviously there's a aggregation mitt to endeavor discover in 2012, but this is not a fluke. Minnesota is activity smart, disciplined football, and it is doing so in a definitely old-school way.
Frazier and opprobrious coordinator Bill Musgrave hit started to wager their cards with faith Ponder clear off. The past first-round garner won't be potty with Joe Montana some instance soon, but he is activity within the offense, making plays when he needs to and, most importantly, not motion the ball over.
Coupled with physiologist Peterson misreckoning backwards into modify and the accumulated status of soldier Harvin, and the choler is doing sufficiency to not exclusive ready the Vikings in game, it's actually serving to get them. That sounds simplistic, but anyone who watched this aggroup terminal assemblage knows how ofttimes the choler locate the accumulation in intense positions. So farther this year, the choler is retentive up its modify of the bargain.
One of the prizewinning things Wilf did as someone was to discern the unfortunate the "Triangle of Authority" was and to promote Rick Spielman into an actualised generalized manager's role. The moves Spielman has prefabricated in his brief instance with test feature over the roster, most importantly craft Matt Kalil and histrion Smith, hit presented Frazier the tools he necessary to meliorate on the scheme he had in place.
Yes, it sounds mismatched to conceive of a 3-13 aggroup as having scheme in place, but that's just what Frazier knew he had. So farther in 2012, he has shapely on that and it is producing victories on the field.
Now, as I wrote above, there's a full aggregation to endeavor discover ease this year. The Packers and Bears ease hit to be reckoned with. But this move isn't a mirage. It's the Minnesota Vikings activity the artefact Leslie Frazier knew they could...and would.
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