With a hat tip to Pro Football Talk, Chip Scoggins notes an interesting quote from the end of Monday's Brad Childress press conference:

"I read a great quote the other day. It was author unknown. It read like this: That editorialists and columnists are like men that come down from the mountains after the battle and shoot the wounded. I thought there is a certain something to that."

This is par for the course -- we've seen Childress' arrogance before, his unwillingness to be held accountable for the failings of his coaching staff and team.  It's always the stupid columnists, internet posters, bloggers, etc. who are being totally unfair towards him and his team; criticism directed at him is never deserved.

I, for one, am sick of it.  Sick of the inability to make changes on the fly, sick of the misuse of Adrian Peterson, sick of the ridiculous offensive playcalling -- and I'm getting increasingly sick of the general attitude coming out of Winter Park.

Another quote from the presser:

Childress was asked about the fact that Peterson did not touch the ball in the fourth quarter and whether they could have done more to get him involved. "We tried to get him involved with the kickoff return," he said. "But there's limited amount of time and you're playing a different kind of football generally in the two and half minutes you're playing in the fourth quarter so whether you would be smart and handing him the football. There's only a limited number of ways you can get it to him throwing it and they're playing a defense that kind of legislates against throwing it deep on them."

More excuses -- I'll concede that giving Peterson the ball on the kickoff return was a good idea, but the notion that the Vikings lacked any opportunity to give AD touches in the fourth quarter couldn't be more false.

It's been just days since the game, and we've already talked about this time and time again: Throwing the ball on second and two, third and two, and fourth and two with roughly three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter is a horrible misuse of Peterson.  In that situation, you have every reason to put the ball on the ground, in the hands of your best offensive player and one of the league's best talents.

Mr. Childress, you're no Belichick, you're no Coughlin, and you're no Dungy -- so let's stop trying to project this sense of infallibility, ok?  We've had more than enough of the idea that all dissenting voices "don't get it."  We're fed up with three years of underachievement, and we want some change.