D’oh, I knew that. Thanks.
Fun game. Don’t like the outcome, but I wasn’t really expecting a Pack win unless bad Favre showed up and tossed a few picks.
Pack’s o-line and d-line are brutal. Rodgers is going to get killed because of the o-line and their best pass rusher is dropping into pass coverage on D.
Weird thing is, this game showed that both parties made the right decision last year. Rodgers is clearly their future and Favre can clearly still play at a high level.
GM Thompson better get that o-line fixed and soon. They are sitting at ~$12 million under the cap and getting the franchise QB killed.
The Pack bottled up Peterson, but teams scheming to do that is exactly why Favre was brought in. The last two years, when teams stacked the box to stop Peterson, the Vikings didn’t have a QB who could exploit it and make defenses pay downfield. That’s exactly what Favre did tonight. It looked like the Packers’ whole game plan was to stuff the run and make the old man have to beat them with his arm. Well, he did.
A-Rodge was really annoying with those persistent little comeback attempts. He made it more of a game towards the end than it had any right to be.
Vikes have the Rams next week, so they can pretty much be penciled in at 5-0 right now. After that it gets tougher. They have the Ravens at home, then the Steelers on the road and the Packers again at Lambeau.
Yeah, that’ll be a big test as you say. Both the Ravens and the Steelers can stop the run without sacrificing their pass coverage. Favre will always have to have Ed Reed in sight against Baltimore. I’m hoping the Steelers stop this foolish 4th quarter all prevent all the time strategy they’ve adopted. People are hollering at Lebeau over that but it’s a very un-Lebeau defense. I think that strategy is being implemented because Tomlin likes it.
I have him in money league and his absence has been strange. It almost seems as if Rodgers is pissed at him or something. He never even looked his way, it’s almost as if after that INT he decided to completely forget about that side of the field. On the final 2 drives in the hurry up you could see Jennings standing out on the line holding up his hands as if to ask what the play was and no one ever told him or signaled to him. Those 2 series he just ran decoy routes and it was abundantly clear that he wasn’t part of their gameplan in the two minute drill.
What the hell is going on there, does the Pack’s offense just consciously give up on Jennings if there isn’t adequate protection for Rodgers?
It was like 30-14 when I fell asleep. The Packers certainly kept trying through out. Farve did look good - this is the first game I watched this year with him in.
When I lived in NY, I didn’t have access to DirecTV. I was thus stuck to either watching Jets and/or Giants, or heading out to Blondie’s to watch the games if I wanted to follow another team.
I live in the UK now. Thanks to NFL GameDay HD, I can watch every single regular season NFL game, in full HD, live and with archiving (no commercials/half-time show, which makes the entire game run in less than 2 hours).
It’s fantastic, and only for a couple of hundred bucks.
It’s not available in the US. Isn’t it great that consumers in London have a better choice of NFL programming than people living in the US? You know the actual consumers more likely to really support their local teams and such?
He was being covered by Antoine Winfield with a safety over the top on nearly every play, and they even floated out a linebacker underneath on him a few time (which is why Jermichael Finley was open so much). I wouldn’t have throw at him either.
I admit that the only thing more annoying to me than complaints about the media’s fawning over BF!BF!BF!is the actual media’s fawning over BF!BF!BF!BF!, so I’m not completely unbiased, but did anyone else start seeing Dwayne Wade at QB for the Vikings last night?
I mean, six to one ratio of penalties, including a rare ‘taunting’ call against the Packers, and of course a penalty to take back an interception of His Awesomeness. Plus the strip of Rodgers after a full two seconds of being wrapped up by three defensive linemen without a whistle (I can’t help but wonder how quick the ‘in the grasp’ whistle would have been if His Holiness had been in that situation). Maybe I misheard, but I was pretty sure the referees lost their creativity towards the end and started giving 10-yard penalties against the Pack for “Not Being Awesome Enough”…
Anyway, the best QB on the field last night had a ‘G’ on his helmet, and was one bad break too many away from winning.
That pass interference call was an absolute joke- worst phantom penalty of the season so far- but I don’t think the Packers would have won even had it not occurred.
Well, there was an offsides on that play too (I couldn’t tell you if it was legitimate), so the pass interference only cost the Packers like half a yard.
As someone with no vested interest in the outcome but just wanting to see a good game, this’n met all expectations, especially play in the first half. That was an exciting, well-fought battle. Rodger’s arm and the Vikes’ D were both stronger than I’d realized.
Word. I’m hearing people saying that somehow proves that the Packers should have kept Favre, but I’m not seeing it.
The Vikings are going all-in for a ring this year and possibly next … but come 2011, they’re rebuilding. If Favre gets hurt or goes “bad Brett” in the playoffs, it’s all a waste. Rodgers will be an above-average starter for years to come.
The offside was on the TD pass afterward, not on the interception play.
There was an offside penalty that was declined in favor of the PI, was was a joke.
It was impressive that Ron Jaworski was able to call the game with his lower lip surgically attached to Brett Farve’s scrotum.
Aaron Rodgers is good. How could Mike Nolan make such a stupid mistake? Because he knows nothing about QBs, and didn’t want one with a cock-sure swagger.
I’ve been a moderate Favre apologist for years, and I’m not going to suddenly change my views now that he plays for MIN.
But the way the the Packers’ O-line is playing, I’m quite confident saying that we’d be seeing Bad Brett if he was still in GB. Rodgers is on pace to get sacked 64 times this year – and throw 4 interceptions. If the QBs were transposed last night, that game would have been a bloodletting.
IIRC, the consensus was that Alex Smith was the better prospect as they had similar arm strength and mobility but Smith was smarter. It wasn’t like he took Leaf over Manning.
I just posted something along those lines in the NFC North thread.
Alex Smith was seen as a greatly superior prospect. The big cloud that was hanging over Aaron Rogers was the fact that he played in the Pac-10 and under Jeff Tedford, whose systems tend to inflate a quarterback’s stats.
It was also a short time after takes a deep breath Joey Harrington out of Oregon was deemed a bust, and coming from the Pac-10 as well, some of that transferred to Mr. Rogers.
Also fun: it wasn’t until after the combine, that supposedly people realized that Alex Smith’s hands were too small to fit around a professional football the same way they fit around a college ball. I don’t buy that, though. I have a hard time believing that no NFL team tossed an NFL-size ball to him and told him to throw.
The really weird part was that they were slobbering all over Favre’s wedding tackle, but gave the offensive line no credit. Then when Peterson had a good run, they gave all the credit to Steve Hutchinson for moving his defender three inches and thereby “opening up a huge hole”.
Frankly, the pass protection Favre got was as good as any I’ve ever seen, while the run blocking was average at best- yet Favre got knob-slobbered.
Who were the other “Tedford Six” members?