Vikings need a roof and a QB

In his first season as the Minnesota Vikings head coach, Leslie Frazier at least won't be held hostage by a certain quarterback from Mississippi who knows his way around a phone camera.

The Vikings won't have to play the "will he or won't he" game with Brett Favre this spring.

Minnesota needs a QB, but the Vikings have the guts of a good football team. They're solid along both lines of scrimmage. Running back Adrian Peterson is still Adrian Peterson. Receiver should be healthier with a full season of Sidney Rice.

Still, QB matters in the NFL. The names heard most here at the NFL combine are Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. QB is clearly a priority for the Vikings, maybe moreso than a new roof for the Metrodome.

“It matters,” Frazier said Friday. “It's a fact in how we go about it, even in what we see in a young guy or not. Even if we take a quarterback, that doesn't mean that we're saying this means we're going to be a 6-10 team or an 8-8 team because we took a quarterback and he ends up being our starting quarterback. We don't feel like we're that far away.”

With the idea that the Vikings will draft a QB, Frazier brought in former NFL QB Bill Musgrave as offensive coordinator. Musgrave helped launch Matt Ryan in Atlanta.

"His vast experience in playing the game, then his background in developing a young quarterback," Frazier said of Musgrave's qualifications. "It won't be foreign territory for Bill. It's something he's gone through before. I think we'll be successful in determining whether or not it's going to be a young quarterback or a veteran quarterback.”

The Vikings have second-year pro Joe Webb. They also have the No. 12 pick.