Some Vikings Writers Just Don't Like the Taste of Purple Kool-Aid

Great risk can lead to great reward. That's what Brad Childress and Darrell Bevell are hoping for this season as the maestros of the Favre-to-Minnesota deal. The hardware is out there for them to go get. If the blathering of so many media outlets aping each other will attest to: the Vikings will meet the Patriots in Miami in February. Great risk can also lead to whatever untimely demise is at the end of the string: injured old QB, sub .500 record, copious additions to a 300+ interceptions record, firing, etc.

Some of the local writers think the Favre risk is doomed for failure for all of the reasons that should be fairly obvious, but to which no one without friendly ties to Favre can bring themselves to sneak a peek at: he's old, injured, and a failed "game manager." Does anyone honestly believe this guy will be content to hand the ball off to the best running back in the game when the game is on the line and he believes he's the greatest bleeding heart on the field?

Experiments are dangerous; ask Mangini

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