Thursday-and-Long: Frazier Could Rise From Vikings' Messy Season

by Dan Graziano

Filed under: Vikings, NFL Coaching, NFL Analysis

PHILADELPHIA -- When the first Tuesday night NFL game in 54 years reached its very surprising conclusion, there were many things to discuss. What's wrong with the Eagles? Should Michael Vick play in the regular-season finale since it doesn't mean anything anymore? Who is this Joe Webb guy? And the old stand-by: Is Brett Favre ever going to play again?

But amid those myriad storylines, and out of the rubble that the Vikings' highly anticipated 2010 season quickly became under Favre and former coach Brad Childress, rose a new one -- a story that could put a very happy ending on a lost football season in Minnesota. It's entirely possible that the victory over the Eagles helped secure the full-time (i.e., non-interim) Vikings head coach job for Leslie Frazier, who's said he wants it but is too smart to make himself the focus of the Vikings' story right now.

 

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