There are good quarterbacks in this league and there are bad quarterbacks.
And then there's Jackson.
The Cowboys begged him to throw Sunday and he responded with 72 yards. Every incomplete pass he threw – and there were 13 of them – was another carry taken away from Peterson.
"I was surprised they didn't feed him [Peterson] as much," Cowboys defensive end Marcus Spears said. "Our objective was to put the game into the quarterback's hands."
The Cowboys shouldn't have been too surprised. The tortured logic Childress exhibits in his use of Peterson hasn't bought any grace with Vikings fans.
Chester Taylor starts at running back instead of Peterson. That's fine. Dividing the workload to keep the rookie fresh is fine, too.
But how can the Vikings go an entire game and not keep Peterson on the field for an entire possession?