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Vikings-Cowboys trash talk: Minnesota still defending against 'class' remark
12:03 PM CDT on Friday, October 15, 2010
By Judd Zulgad Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
The Dallas Cowboys might have objected to the Vikings' actions in last season's playoff game, but don't expect anyone at Winter Park to provide an apology.
Coach Brad Childress and his players have made it clear they saw nothing wrong with Brett Favre throwing an 11-yard touchdown pass to Visanthe Shiancoe on a fourth-and-3 play with 1 minute, 55 seconds left in the fourth quarter to give the Vikings a 34-3 lead.
The touchdown so infuriated Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking that he ran toward the Vikings sideline and screamed at Childress. Brooking later called the touchdown "totally classless and disrespectful" and said he would circle the date of the team's 2010 meeting on his calendar.
That game will be Sunday at Mall of America Field, and the Vikings don't really seem to care if the Cowboys think they tried to run up the score. In fact, the Vikings say Dallas continued to blitz Favre and thus wasn't exactly surrendering.
"If they're slamming people into the formation, nothing says that you have to go in there and have everybody shorten their necks so they stop us," Childress said Thursday. "Now you've got to make a decision whether you kick a field goal. So the easiest thing is to get another first down. That's all we were trying to do and we ended up scoring."
In an extremely candid moment, Childress then added: "It'd probably be a good idea to cover somebody. Generally on defense, you've got to cover the deep plays."
Added Williams: "What are they trying to blitz for? They're still playing hard trying to hurt Brett so I guess Brett said, 'OK, so you'll take this touchdown.'"
With the Vikings and Cowboys off to 1-3 starts, both teams have much bigger concerns than what happened last January. Brooking no longer is interested in talking about the matter and Vikings nose tackle Pat Williams, for one, is happy about that.
"We don't care what Brooking says," Williams said. "If he's still talking about last year that's his bad because last year is last year and we ain't worried about it. If he wants to cry like a little baby, he'll cry like a little baby but we aren't worried about what he's saying. ... This is the NFL, it ain't Pop Warner, it ain't high school. This is the pros. I figure if they were so good they would have stopped us from scoring, but they didn't."
Childress said it was Brooking who was really upset about the touchdown and not Cowboys coach Wade Phillips. But Phillips still didn't sound too happy this week.
It probably didn't help Phillips' cause, however, that a week before losing to the Vikings, the Cowboys had cruised to a 34-14 playoff victory over the Eagles. Philadelphia just so happens to be coached by Childress' good friend, Andy Reid.
"People can do what they want," Phillips said of the Vikings' late touchdown. "That's what they chose to do. It's not something I would've done."
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12:03 PM CDT on Friday, October 15, 2010
By Judd Zulgad Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
The Dallas Cowboys might have objected to the Vikings' actions in last season's playoff game, but don't expect anyone at Winter Park to provide an apology.
Coach Brad Childress and his players have made it clear they saw nothing wrong with Brett Favre throwing an 11-yard touchdown pass to Visanthe Shiancoe on a fourth-and-3 play with 1 minute, 55 seconds left in the fourth quarter to give the Vikings a 34-3 lead.
The touchdown so infuriated Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking that he ran toward the Vikings sideline and screamed at Childress. Brooking later called the touchdown "totally classless and disrespectful" and said he would circle the date of the team's 2010 meeting on his calendar.
That game will be Sunday at Mall of America Field, and the Vikings don't really seem to care if the Cowboys think they tried to run up the score. In fact, the Vikings say Dallas continued to blitz Favre and thus wasn't exactly surrendering.
"If they're slamming people into the formation, nothing says that you have to go in there and have everybody shorten their necks so they stop us," Childress said Thursday. "Now you've got to make a decision whether you kick a field goal. So the easiest thing is to get another first down. That's all we were trying to do and we ended up scoring."
In an extremely candid moment, Childress then added: "It'd probably be a good idea to cover somebody. Generally on defense, you've got to cover the deep plays."
Added Williams: "What are they trying to blitz for? They're still playing hard trying to hurt Brett so I guess Brett said, 'OK, so you'll take this touchdown.'"
With the Vikings and Cowboys off to 1-3 starts, both teams have much bigger concerns than what happened last January. Brooking no longer is interested in talking about the matter and Vikings nose tackle Pat Williams, for one, is happy about that.
"We don't care what Brooking says," Williams said. "If he's still talking about last year that's his bad because last year is last year and we ain't worried about it. If he wants to cry like a little baby, he'll cry like a little baby but we aren't worried about what he's saying. ... This is the NFL, it ain't Pop Warner, it ain't high school. This is the pros. I figure if they were so good they would have stopped us from scoring, but they didn't."
Childress said it was Brooking who was really upset about the touchdown and not Cowboys coach Wade Phillips. But Phillips still didn't sound too happy this week.
It probably didn't help Phillips' cause, however, that a week before losing to the Vikings, the Cowboys had cruised to a 34-14 playoff victory over the Eagles. Philadelphia just so happens to be coached by Childress' good friend, Andy Reid.
"People can do what they want," Phillips said of the Vikings' late touchdown. "That's what they chose to do. It's not something I would've done."
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