Brad Childress
Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress denied Brett Favre’s claims that there was a heated discussion between the two during Sunday night’s loss to the Carolina Panthers.
“Yeah, there was a heated discussion, I guess you would call it,” Favre told reporters after the game on Sunday.
Flash forward 24 hours and Childress calls the incident “a stream of consciousness” and not a “heated discussion.”
“I’m watching, and I said, ‘Hey, you know what? I’m thinking about taking you out of the game here,” Childress told reporters he said to Favre. “I mean, you’re getting your rear end kicked.’ Through not a lot of fault of his own.”
He continued to elaborate.
“What I said was, ‘It has nothing to do with how you’re playing. It has to do with what’s happening to you out there,”‘ the Vikings coach said. “Obviously, he didn’t want anything to do with that, which I certainly appreciate from his standpoint.”
Obviously not.
Favre saw things differently as he told reporters after the game on Sunday.
“We were up 7-6 at the time,” Favre began. “No secret, I was getting hit a little bit. I felt the pressure on a lot of plays. We had seven points. So I think everyone in the building was like, ‘They’re not moving the ball, they’re not getting points.’ Brad wanted to go in a different direction and I wanted to stay in the game.”
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