When you can't adjust and you don't know the rules, it might be time to admit you are in over your head.

Stick a fork in the Vikings -- and maybe in Brad Childress. Both could be done.

Last night couldn’t have gone any worse for Childress and his football team. He blew a challenge call (when doesn’t he?), got outcoached when he didn’t make any offensive adjustments until the fourth quarter, and he wrongly accused the refs of missing a call (the Vikings did have 12 men on the field and the Redskins didn’t sub out any of their players, like Childress claimed.)

So, that leaves us with the following scenario and little chance for the Vikings to get into the playoffs:

The Vikings and the Redskins are both 8-7 and tied for the final wild-card spot.
The Vikings can make the playoffs if they win at Denver and Washington loses at home to Dallas. If both teams win next week, Washington wins the tiebreaker (head-to-head).

The Vikings don’t deserve to make the playoffs and at this point, I think we should be happy that they won’t be here. Chilly would find a way to blow another game and Tarvaris Jackson is the new Rex Grossman -- we really don’t need to see him on the road in the playoffs.