Robert Smith's tip for fumble-prone Adrian Peterson: Hold it tight

Sound advice from a true Vikings legend.

I am alarmed by Childress's comments. Adrian is fumbling way too often and this problem has existed for way too long for him to still be leaving this to his RB coach. He is the Head Coach and Adrian's fumbles are the single biggest problem in the Vikings' game right now. Childress has to personally involve himself with Adrian and ensure that progress is made soon.

Smith sees a problem and speaks of how to address it; Childress speaks as if it has already been addressed. I know I am somewhat irrational, but I'm truly sick of this tiresome little man.

Wouldn't have anything to do with his running style. Watching him the other night brought back memories of another straight up running back for the chargers back in the early /80's, Chuck Munsie, remember him eat up yards like crazy, however he was constintly putting the rock on the ground.

Dr K wrote:

Smith sees a problem and speaks of how to address it; Childress speaks as if it has already been addressed. I know I am somewhat irrational, but I'm truly sick of this tiresome little man.

Right on! Sometimes it's the little things that count most. Childress seems to think that his dad getting on him is all that's necessary. Thanks to Robert Smith for the coaching.

Robert Smith. Lets not forget Smith... The man who kept running out of bounds when the vikings were trying to kill the clock in the 4th quarter against atlanta in 98. Way to avoid those hits man! Way to avoid the super bowl...

It's almost seems when AD has a running play called for him they give him the Kicker ball, which makes the football more slippery. Even though it's not possible, but it's the only way for other teams to stop the best running back!

some very sound advice from a very talented player. as for chili...i know he has some type of approach to these problems, but as Dr K noted it appears with chili...it is his way or no way...that is one of the reasons why fans are not sold on this man as the best fit to coach the vikes. at any rate ap is a special rb and with the right coach will solve this problem...GO AP AND GO VIKES!!!

Even Superman has his kryptonite...hopefully AD can overcome this because no matter how special he is, if he keeps putting the ball on the ground that is what everyone will remember. "He was a great runner but...." Everyone remembers Tiki's problems before he got it turned around. Hopefully AD can do the same

AD should carry a ball with "All Day" & challenge anybody he passes to try to know it out of his mitts.
Maybe even sleep with the ball....
He's got to learn to hold on, granted he gets hit a lot but what RB doesn't in the NFL?
The fumble that hurt the most was Atlanta losing the ball into the end zone and Sharper trying to make a big play when he should have just fallen on the ball.
Remember last year when the Vikes lost the last 2 games to fall out of the playoffs????

AP's dad is not part of the coaching staff. The fact that Childress continuously leaves fixing this problem to AP's dad shows his true coaching ability.

Those fumbles very likely cost us the game last week and a guaranteed spot in the playoffs. And it wasn't a new problem. Yet Childress continues to ignore the problem.

Lock Smith and AP into a room together until AP gets it through his melon.

Fire Childress and hire a local high school coach instead, any upgrade right now is a benefit.

I knew Smith was a genius. "hold it tight", who would have thought?

kdogg wrote:

Robert Smith. Lets not forget Smith... The man who kept running out of bounds when the vikings were trying to kill the clock in the 4th quarter against atlanta in 98. Way to avoid those hits man! Way to avoid the super bowl...

I haven't forgotten, I was screaming at the TV for him to stay in bounds. It did no good, the "genius" still kept a beeline for the sidelines.

i talked about the tiki barber situation right after the game on sunday when people were calling for AD to be benched. giants got jerald ingram to work with him...hand on top of the cone, smash that rock into your body with your bicep. like they said in the article, tiki had 3 fumbles after that and dominated to his retirement.

I think AP's fumbles are a byproduct of his role to this offense and unlucky situations when the fumbles occur. When AP rushed for Oklahoma, he did not have a fumble problem. Now, in the last two seasons combined, all of a sudden, AP can not hold onto the rock? Unlucky streak. Second, the Vikings don't have an offense if AP and Chester Taylor are not gaining yards. Frerotte is barely completing 59% of his passes, and Jackson is hovering near 58%- neither is Super Bowl worthy. Toss in Frerotte's interceptions and Jackson's fumbles, the Vikings do enough to move the offense through the air, but its the backs, AP and CT, that are the key.

We miss you Robert Smith!

(By the way, there's a contest at the Strib to make the meanest comments possible. Disregard it.)

This sort of thing was what killed us in Tennessee, and I just hope he bounces back against the Giants. Without those turnovers the score probably would have been something like 30-10, the defense did a pretty good job overall. You have to wonder what's going on in a team's head with games like this: in both this and the Tennessee game you had multiple players fumbling. Whatever it is, I hope they get it out and we can take the division without any help from the Texans. If the Bears manage to steal the division title I am not going to be happy; even watching them get blown out in the playoffs wouldn't be much consolations.

TheMaster wrote:

I knew Smith was a genius. "hold it tight", who would have thought?

Well, Peterson isn't doing it so it needed to be said!

you couldn't hold AP's jockstrap Robert the Brain Smith. I thought you were going to be this braniac professor and solve so many problems Smith? Its too bad that you are not as smart as you think you are.

smith was a good back but how good is ap going to be? cant wait till sunday ap will run all over the giants. I do not care who they play the vikes will smoke the giants. our defense will kill gus manning, ap has somethin to prove and the giants dfense will find out just how good a back ap is. go vikes kick some giant aaaaaaaaaa.

sure did not like contact, hard to fumble out of bounds@@@@@