A day after Leslie Frazier was named the Vikings interim coach for the remainder of the season, linebacker Chad Greenway said the motivation for the entire team should be finishing up as strong as possible in the final six games.

"I think it's to start with just trying to turn the season around," he said after making an appearance on Vikings flagship radio station KFAN at a St. Louis Park restaurant. "If you finish the season 8-8 or 9-7 it looks like a real positive. It really does. Not only for Coach Frazier but also just for us as players to know that we were really in a bind and we had to fight out of it. Doesn't mean it's going to happen, obviously, there's a lot of things that have to go into that. But I think my rallying point is it's got to be about our pride. We have to go in there and just be able to fight and put our best effort.

"We can't go in there and get beat 31-3 every week because we're going to lose our fans, we'll lose a lot of respect around the league. We have to fight for every game and at this point we don't want to be in position to be the spoilers. I think Coach Frazier talked about it a little bit yesterday. I hadn't really thought about that because usually you want to be the guy who is trying to be spoiled. Like last year, everybody was fighting to try to beat us. We don't want to be that guy. If we can fight back to get to .500 and above that would be an awesome season and such a positive to finish on." Greenway was drafted in 2006, the first draft class that Brad Childress helped select, and admitted it was difficult for him to see the coach fired. "For me personally it was tough to see that happen just because with him bringing me in through the draft and everything it's tough to see that," Greenway said. "But obviously you have to move on." Greenway, meanwhile, had a scare in Sunday's 31-3 loss to Green Bay when he was poked in the right eye in the opening quarter and had to leave the game for a brief period. Greenway's eye remains red and he still has a bruise around that area. "It's better," he said. "There's no long-term damage. He actually came across and scraped my eye and then hit my orbital bone. If he had hit me straight on it could have been bad." Greenway admitted he was "very worried" when it happened and said he lost vision in the eye for about 20 minutes before it started to return. Greenway plans to wear a clear visor for the next couple of weeks and "then we'll see what happens."