Let's take a look at the numbers, shall we? Over two games this season, Jackson has thrown a touchdown pass, an interception, averaged 154 passing yards per game and has a 64.8 quarterback rating. In his career -- 16 games worth -- he's completed just over 57 percent of his passes and thrown for nearly 2,700 yards, with12 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions. Take a look at those numbers again: 2,700 yards, 12 touchdowns and 17 interceptions. There are some quarterbacks who double those numbers over a full season.

Frerotte is not a world beater, but he's completed just over 74 percent of his career attempts and thrown just over 100 touchdowns. He's not going to take this team to another level, but he certainly gives the Vikings a much better chance to win than Jackson did. It should be noted that Jackson was also playing with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his knee.

This decision was pretty simple. Childress knows that your window of opportunity isn't open long, and if you don't win within a couple of years, then you will find yourself on a different sideline in a reduced role. By sticking with Jackson, Adrian Peterson would be facing eight-man fronts constantly because the aerial attack has been non-existent so far. Basically, at 0-2 and facing a rising 2-0 Carolina Panthers team this weekend, the Vikings are already fighting an uphill battle and if they don't change things soon, there will be major changes in the Twin Cities.

The rules in the paragraph above that apply to head coaches also apply to young quarterbacks, fair or not. Troy Aikman was on "Pardon the Interruption" last week with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, and during the interview he mentioned that it's tougher for young quarterbacks these days to adapt to the game's offensive schemes, and they have less time to adapt before they are replaced. The position is tougher to play now than it ever has been.

We are seeing this happen in many different cities. Matt Leinart was benched in favor of former NFL MVP Kurt Warner because Warner has a better grasp of the offense and he gives the Arizona Cardinals a better chance to win now. Vince Young is going through a series of problems, on the field and off, in his third season, and Jeff Fisher announced that the team will go with Kerry Collins for the foreseeable future. Alex Smith, the first overall pick in 2005, has been a major disappointment for the 49ers, and even if he were healthy, J.T. O'Sullivan would still be taking all of the snaps.

This is a trend that will continue. As a coach, you are expected to make decisions that will help your team win right away, and if you don't, the team will replace you with somebody who will. It's become the same routine for quarterbacks: If you don't perform well right away, the coaches will replace you with somebody who will. Long gone are the days of developing quarterbacks over three seasons while enduring the bumps in the road along the way.

This also begs the question: Will we see fewer young quarterbacks taken early in the draft? Because of that, will we see fewer young quarterbacks leave school early knowing that they may not get selected as high as they did a decade ago?

The NFL is forever changing, and I think this change is one that will make a fairly significant impact on the game.