As explained as part of our Week Two Ten-Pack for SportingNews.com, the Minnesota Vikings have looked spotty at best on offense.  Despite having one of the best young runners the league has ever seen, the passing game is at times abandoned.  When it’s not abandoned, it looks like it should be.

So what should the Vikings do?  Well, with Jeff Garcia available, the Vikes should offer a low-round pick and move forward.

Any reluctance to do so might be a result of the internal tug-o-war that surely is playing out among and between Rick Spielman, Brad Childress, and Rob Brzezinski.  Tarvaris Jackson was a second-round pick of the so-called “Clusterfudge Triangle of Authority,” which consisted of Childress, Brzezinski, and Fran Foley. 

The Vikings actually traded up to get Jackson.  And Jackson has been, to date, a failure.  He was booed heavily, and deservedly, on Sunday, as his erratic play caused a 15-0 lead to evaporate in the second half.

But Childress surely doesn’t want to admit that he failed with Jackson, and ditching Tarvaris for Garcia would constitute such an admission.  So, instead, Childress and company will likely trudge ahead, hoping that Jackson figures things out before the team is mathematically eliminated from contention in 2008.

The franchise deserves better, the fans deserve better, and Adrian Peterson — who is busting his ass to grind out the yards on the turf that Jackson isn’t able to gain through the air — deserves better as well.

In our view, Childress would be wise to not worry about whether he’ll look foolish for drafting Jackson by benching him.  NFL teams make plenty of mistakes; the teams who are willing to acknowledge their errors and move on are the ones who are smart enough to avoid compounding them.