Minnesota Vikings 06 Press Conference 2

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Coach Schottenheimer:

I know I am going to get 100 questions on what we are going to do without Daunte...Well let me just put it out there....His injury is worse than we expected it to be.. and....We will be starting Tim Rattay at this point...

Now on to the game...We did what we couldn't do last week..by doing that we were able to come out with a win and I am obviously very happy with the way things went today....Being on the road in this league you have to be able to win to get into the playoffs and that is one of our goals...We need to be able to keep this offense consistent and if we can do that I think our defense is good enough to be right were we need to be come playoff time....

Any questions?

Will you be putting Daunte on IR? If Rattay falters, will you sign a FA or make a trade?

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Response to Press Conference Questions?

1. Will you be putting Daunte on IR? If Rattay falters, will you sign a FA or make a trade?

At this point I have no reason to beleive that Tim will not be able to do what we ask of him...Obviously with Tim in there compared to Daunte things are going to work differently...I think Tim can get us to where we want to go..it is just that it may look different..When we signed Tim this year we really looked at the other FA's and we felt like Tim gave us the best chance to win..He has looked good in practice and he filled in very nicely in Dallas..At this point we have no reason to look else where..

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With the just released information that the Saints are looking to trade Aaron Brooks, has Joe Horn mentioned anything to you about acquiring his old mate?

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With the just released information that the Saints are looking to trade Aaron Brooks, has Joe Horn mentioned anything to you about acquiring his old mate?

Ahh No....No Joe hasn't mentioned anything to me anyway but at this point we are not looking anywhere else other than Tim Rattay...

Thank you...No further Questions