Rosenfels to Vikes

[T.Dot]

Courtesy of SC.
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[Apocalypse]

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Vikings acquired quarterback Sage Rosenfels from the Houston Texans on Friday and signed him to a two-year, $9 million contract.

Rosenfels' agent, Rick Smith, said his client "is extremely excited for this opportunity."

The 31-year-old Rosenfels will compete with incumbent Tarvaris Jackson for the starting job.

It's the second season in a row that the Vikings have tried to trade for Rosenfels. Last year, the two teams could not agree on compensation, so Minnesota brought in veteran Gus Frerotte as a backup.

It was not immediately clear what the Vikings gave up to land Rosenfels, but the Houston Chronicle previously reported it would be a fourth-round draft pick.

"It's something we've been working on for a while and it finally came to fruition," Smith said. "This is the first time in his career that he's had a great opportunity to start. Nothing has been promised to him. He's just extremely excited for this opportunity."

Rosenfels went 2-3 in five starts for the injured Matt Schaub last season. He threw for 1,431 yards with six touchdowns, 10 interceptions and a 66.7 completion percentage.

Bringing in someone to compete with Jackson for the starting job was one of Minnesota's biggest offseason priorities after losing to Philadelphia in the playoffs.

Jackson was benched after two losses to open last season and Frerotte went 8-3 in his place.

When Frerotte went down with a back injury, Jackson flourished to finish the regular season. He rallied the Vikings to a victory over the Lions after Frerotte got injured and won NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors the following week after throwing four touchdown passes in a road victory over Arizona.

In the first round of the playoffs, however, Jackson took a big step back against the frenetic blitzes of the Philly defense. He went 15-for-34 for 164 yards and had an interception returned for a touchdown in a 26-14 loss to the Eagles that ended Minnesota's season.


"We need to put somebody in place that will push (Jackson) and compete with him, and I think competition is the nature of the game," Childress told reporters at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. "At some places it may not be ... (but) in our situation, we need to have a good healthy competition, because I think that makes everybody better."

Rosenfels was up and down last season as well.

He completed 21 of 29 passes for 224 yards and two touchdowns in relief of Schaub against the Vikings in November, but he also threw an interception in the end zone in the 28-21 loss.

In October, Rosenfels came in for Schaub again and had the Texans up by 17 points in the fourth quarter, but fumbled twice down the stretch as the Colts rallied to win 31-27.

But the market for quarterbacks is especially thin this offseason, with other options including Jeff Garcia, Dan Orlovsky, Rex Grossman and Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Playing under Gary Kubiak in Houston, Rosenfels ran a West Coast offense similar to the one that Brad Childress employs in Minnesota. He did throw four more interceptions than touchdowns, but he had a good completion percentage, which is important in this scheme.

Jackson has struggled in that area, having yet to complete better than 59.1 percent of his passes in his three seasons in the league.

Last year he started five games and played in nine total, throwing for 1,056 yards with nine touchdowns and just two interceptions.

The trade likely means the 37-year-old Frerotte, who threw for 2,157 yards with 12 touchdowns and 15 interceptions last season, will be let go.

[T.Dot]

Well, they needed a QB, and Rosenfels is decent but he's notorious for late game mistakes...Either way, it's nice to see they're trying to improve.

*cough* Colts game *cough*

[T.Dot]

Wow, I can't believe you brought this up in a Rosenfels thread...Now I see why people around here don't like you much, I didn't come in this thread thinking I'd get into an argument about the Colts...So I'm not going to say anything except, yes, we got beat, it happens.

what are you talking about? I just noticed now that you liked the Colts and I didn't being it up because of that, and you guys did win that game so idk how your groaning me, I was referencing the fact he choked in that game for the texans

[T.Dot]

OK WELL...I'm sorry lol, I thought you were talking about the Chargers/Colts game, cause I saw you were a chargers fan. I removed the groan, my bad.

lol, nope, i dont gloat to fans of opposing teams if the Chargers beat them unless its during the game and im on the Chatbox.
but, yah, lol, sorry for the misunderstadning.

[Macken]

NO he is garbage .. Tjack looked decent and i got faith in him

[Woy]

Rosenfels is awful.

[ChemTheThriller]

Really minnesota? Really? This was your big plan on helping out the best back in football?

Why are teams fucking moronic once they have a good HB...


Hey dip shits you only like probably 6-7 solid years left from AD, then he will start to decline...

And your going to waste 1-2+ years with Sage Rosenfels? lol... Have fun never going to the superbowl making stupid ass decisions like this =)

[Spidey]

Funny day to be a non-viking fan in Minnesota. The way people are talking about him here at work, you would think they just signed Joe Montana. Same thing happened last year when they WAYYYYYY overpaid Berrian.

Vikings fans are easily the stupidest group of fans I have encountered. Thats generalizing a bit because I do know some that live and die by the Vikings but 90% don't know what the heck they are talking about. But I guess that happens when you only follow football when your team is good.

[Gonzo]

I've been such a big fan of Sage since he essentially handed Indy back a sure-loss earlier this year.

Sage is bring teh lulz.

[manchild24]

Vikings waived QB Gus Frerotte.

The writing was on the wall once Sage Rosenfels was acquired. Frerotte was due a $250,000 bonus in addition to his $2 million contract, and he wasn't going to be given a chance to start. Frerotte has talked about spending more time with his family, so he may retire unless the hometown Rams show interest in him as a backup.

[Kuzzy Powers]

I guess im the only person that actually likes this signing..

Rosenfels has showed good things man. He tried to get too pretty and ended up costing his team a game.. but he also played damn well to pretty much tear the Colts up all day that day. And hes done it before. Im not saying hes a star, but I can see him being a decent NFL starter and definitely a favourite of mine for Fantasy Leagues. Of course, he wont have that serious Texans offense to play in, that will hurt, but I think you gotta give him a chane to prove himself. I always said I thought Rosenfels would make a decent starter someday, nows his chance.

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[Gonzo]

If I could thank you 100000000 times for that I would.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Woulda been a fucking serious play if he could've held onto the ball tho..