[Bryan88]

Good to see that Frerotte is seeming to get more comfortable in the offense that he has never really played in before. Hopefully he will never see the field this year, but it will be nice to have a proven veteran back there instead of another young guy.


Vikings: For Frerotte, everything's so familiar, yet so new

More important is adjusting to an offensive system that is almost completely foreign to Frerotte, who has played for seven teams during a 14-year career.

The Vikings' new backup quarterback has spent the first seven practices during the team's organized team activities adjusting to life in Childress' version of the West Coast system. With Tarvaris Jackson absent Wednesday so he could tend to a personal issue, Frerotte worked with the first-team offense.

His most impressive throw of the day came during a team drill when he completed a 40-yard strike down the sideline to receiver Bernard Berrian.

"He's everything I thought he'd be," Childress said of Frerotte. "He's got a good presence about him, and the thing you always ask yourself is, 'Is the arm still alive?' And I see him snap off every throw he needs to make, so yeah, I don't have a question about that."

"It's just reps, period," Frerotte said of the adjustment. "Getting the calls out, learning the offense. Just processing it from the time the coach gives it to you to the line of scrimmage. Being able to put it all together."

By "getting the calls out," Frerotte means the amount of verbiage that goes into calling the West Coast plays. That more than anything is going to take work.

"I've thrown every route you can throw and handed off every handoff," he said. "It's just the verbiage. It's understanding the protections. It's getting a feel for what they like to do and readjusting my mindset a little bit."