green's 10th season at the vikings helm turned out to be his final year in minnesota; with a 5–10 record with one game remaining in the 2001 season, the vikings management bought out the final two years of green's contract and promoted offensive line coach and former tight end mike tice to the top job for the final game of the season. tice remained in the job for a further four seasons, but only reached the playoffs once, losing out to the philadelphia eagles in the divisional playoffs of the 2004 season. tice's contract was allowed to expire at the end of the 2005 season, and he was quickly replaced by the philadelphia eagles' offensive coordinator brad childress. since childress' first season in charge, the vikings regular season record has improved by two wins a season from 6–10 in 2006 to 12–4 in 2009. they reached the playoffs as nfc north champions twice in two consecutive years in 2008 and 2009; they lost out to childress' former team, the philadelphia eagles, in the 2008 nfc wildcard game, but beat the dallas cowboys in the 2009 divisional game to reach their first nfc championship game since 2000. however, they lost to the new orleans saints and missed out on the super bowl. the following season, the vikings picked up just three wins in their first 10 games; after the seventh defeat of the season, childress was fired and defensive coordinator leslie frazier took over as interim head coach. frazier was named head coach on a permanent basis on january 3, 2011, but his first full season in charge saw the vikings finish with a 3–13 record. the following year saw a dramatic turnaround as the vikings finished at 10–6 in 2012, just edging out the chicago bears to make the playoffs as the nfc's sixth seed with a win over the green bay packers in week 17; however, the team slumped again in 2013, as a final 5–10–1 record ultimately saw frazier fired on december 30, 2013.