Minnesota Vikings have gone about their business

Head coach Brad Childress confirmed Monday that Bieniemy will be assistant head coach for the offense. Bieniemy will continue to be in charge of Adrian Peterson and the rest of the running backs, as he has since joining the staff in 2006 when Childress was hired.

Defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier remains the assistant head coach and Darrell Bevell remains the offensive coordinator.

n the weeks and months since finally ridding themselves — somewhat, anyway — of that bitter aftertaste born of an overtime loss to the New Orleans Saints jerseys in the NFC Championship Game, the Minnesota Vikings have gone about their business with those time-honored perfunctory steps during offseason workouts and minicamps.

They talk about the usual things most any team in semi-hibernation talks about: possible improvement here, possible improvement there, what trade X means, what draft pick Y means and so on and so forth.

But more than most teams, what they have been saying pretty much Visanthe Shiancoe amounts to squat.

And thus it shall be until quarterback Brett Favre decides whether he will return to the Vikings for a second go-round after a season during which the 40-year-old took conventional wisdom and stuffed it powerfully enough to energize a city and flummox longtime league observers.

 The new Minnesota Vikings jerseys have agreed to a four-year, $1.85 million contract with seventh-round rookie tight end Mickey Shuler Jr., according to a league source.

The contract includes a signing bonus of roughly $63,000 as well as the standard base salaries of $320,000, $405,000, $490,000 and $575,000 as well as a fourth-year escalator clause that can significantly boost the maximum value of the deal.

It's believed that the Vikings are going to begin getting some of their later-round picks done now that they've finalized a deal with Shuler.

The 6-foot-4, 251-pounder ran the 40-yard dash in 4.62 seconds at his Pro Day as well as 37-inch vertical leap.

His 10-11 broad jump, 6.70 in the three-cone and 11.19 in the 60-yard shuttle Sidney Rice would have been the top tight end showing, and his 28 bench press repetitions and 4.25 in the 20-yard shuttle would have ranked him second overall.

Shuler was an All-Academic Big Ten selection who caught 27 career passes for 300 yards and four touchdowns.