Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff

We’ll break from format here for a bit. Rather than hear from the Patriots coach, I thought you might enjoy reading what Vikings coach Brad Childress thinks of the Pats. (Or at least what he’s willing to say for public consumption)

Kind of like switching the channel to listen to the national broadcast instead of the hometown announcers, I usually find it more interesting to hear what everyone else thinks of our team.

“I think the thing about them is they’ve been able to be good over the course of time.  When everybody counted them out, and Miami is going to win that division, they’ll be the tall dog in that division. They just have a steely resolve to them and that’s what you appreciate.  Whether it’s in how their offensive linemen play, their defensive linemen play, they play the game physically.  Defensively we talked about them being…(they’re) the sixth-best team running the football in the National Football League in there with the Atlantas and the Denvers, so they know how to run a football.  By the same token, they have the ability to come out, as they did on Monday Night Football a few years ago, and throw the ball 25 times in a row out of an empty set.  So I think the thing is that they’re not one-dimensional.  They’ve got a guy that understands what’s going on behind the center.  They’re multiple on defense.  We spent two weeks preparing before the Super Bowl for a 3-4 defense, and they didn’t play a 3-4 defense in the Super Bowl.  They played an even front with guys in both ‘A’ gaps, so you have to be ready for anything and that’s what makes them difficult to prepare for.  They’re smart guys.  They’re not just going to throw it against the wall and hope it works.  There is going to be some rhyme and reason to it.  (They’ve) got guys like (Tedy) Bruschi, (Mike) Vrabel, those guys that have done it for a long period of time. (Rosevelt) Colvin just was coming into his own when we played them (with Philadelphia).  They’ve got guys back there that know what’s going on – Rodney Harrison.  So again, that steely resolve is what’s there and when people count them out is when they’re at their best. So a dangerous football team, good football team.â€?

Isn’t it better reading complimentary things from other folks instead of the usual homers?