Feeling Minnesota: On Eric Mangini and Brad Childress

During Monday's Mangini discussion at Joe Posnanski's blog, commenter Joe Madden shared the point of view of a fan of a top-three Super Bowl contender that's led by a fourth-year head coach who the locals have been trying to run out of town for most of the coach's first three years there:  We in [Minnesota] are learning that coaches are all talk until the personnel are in place to do what the coach wants. We have insisted on Brad Childress’ dismissal for 3 years, and then he got a QB that can play, and now we win. the funny thing is that everyone in MN has forgotten that it was Childress that drafted T-Slap (Tavaris Jackson) and it was Childress who employed the likes of Brad Johnson, Brooks Bollinger, and various others. He’s also the guy that ran Culpepper out of town, not a bad move, but he was still better than what we had. So no matter how bad a team is, it’s not all the coach’s fault, and no matter how good a team is it’s not all the coach’s performance.La...