Don't blame Twitter for landing Vikings receiver Bernard Berrian in coach Leslie Frazier's doghouse as a surprise game-day inactive against the Arizona Cardinals.
"It does have something to do with something," Frazier said after the Vikings' 34-10 win at Mall of America Field. "It was a disciplinary decision by me."
Frazier, however, insisted twice that it had nothing to do with anything Berrian (@B_Twice) typed while tweeting up a controversial storm a week ago after the Vikings lost in Kansas City.
Berrian tweeted that he's been open for four years, an insinuation that quarterbacks haven't been getting him the ball. When state representative and amputee war hero John Kriesel mocked the tweet, Berrian challenged him to watch the film or "sit down and shut up." Berrian didn't know Kriesel was a state representative, an amputee war hero or that he was a co-sponsor of the team's stadium bill.
If it wasn't the Twitter incident, it's another sign that Berrian just isn't fitting in -- again -- at Winter Park. Projected as a key starter, he has two catches for 37 yards.
Early last week, Frazier talked about the importance of continuing to take shots down the field to Berrian. But that changed drastically. And quickly. Even quarterback Donovan McNabb was surprised by the decision.
"I didn't know until I got here today," McNabb said.
In trying to describe the decision, Frazier said: "Just looking at where we were as a team and what we're trying to get accomplished, that was it. Just looking at the bigger picture and what we had to get done as a football team. That's not to say it'll continuously be this way. There were some things that we needed to get done that had to be done."
