Spielman has been amazingly good at limiting dead money under the cap. According to this article the Vikings and the Packers are the best in the league right now in avoiding dead money.
Well yeah that was big, there were plenty of big plays, the two I mentioned just stuck out more to me. This game was actually pretty similar to the game in Minnesota. The Vikings get a big lead and the Packers (Rodgers especially) work hard to make it close, but in the end the Vikings are just better.
Funny thing, the play that haunts my dreams is also a play by Steve Young…and Terrel Owens.
Of course, a play or two earlier Jerry Rice had fumbled the ball but the officials called him down, otherwise the game would have been over. Nonetheless…
Any discussion of Chilly’s roster accomplished needs to be prefixed with a $30mil salary cap surplus that was dropped in his lap by Red.
Only time in my life I’ve heard my Mormon-missionary brother drop F-bombs. In front of my mother, no less.
When Kevin Garnett came back to Minnesota to take on the Wolves he got a standing ovation. Favre gets boos, jersey burnings and a mock funeral because he wouldn’t go quietly into that good night after the Pack no longer wanted him.
When Chuck Knoblauch came back, fans threw hotdogs at him. Of course, Chuck Knoblauch is a whiny prick and Kevin Garnett is a class act.
And the Packers lose another starter on their O Line, with Spitz going on the IR, ending his year.
sigh.
It wasn’t that the Pack no longer wanted him. It was that they couldn’t have him continuing to hijack their offseasons year in and year out. Once Favre announced his retirement, they made plans to move on without him. You can’t argue that it’s in any way their fault that they couldn’t accomodate his change of heart a month before the damn season.
Why did they try to bribe him not to go to another team?
Because he doesn’t suck?
And on the first series of the game, Tommie Harris gets ejected for punching Deuce Lutui in the face after the play is over. Ah, those Bears.
Slick move, Harris. And I really, really needs a Bears win this week too. Dipshit…
The Lions have a good chance to get a great draft choice .
Hows that for desperation?
Ndamukong Suh, Gerald McCoy, or Russell Okung could make nice additions.
The Packers are doing everything they can to keep the Bucs in this game.
“This is just downright embarrassing what we’re seeing here today”*
Troy Aikman describing the Bears defense that has given up 4 touchdowns on 4 possessions in just under two quarters of play.
*Or something close to this.
This can not keep up. The Seahawks have had 2 plays and 2 turnovers. The Lions have dropped the ball all over the place. They hit the goalpost on a 34 yard field goal and it bounced away. But somehow they got 2 touchdowns and are leading 14 to zip.
I have officially given up on the Packers. Losing the Vikings is one thing (at least they are good this year), and the other loss I can chalk up to a fluke, but losing to a previously winless team?
I’l probably continue to watch games (at least for a while), but I will assume a loss.
I had no Super Bowl illusions, but I figured 9-7 or even 10-6 might be doable. Now I have doubts about 8-8 or even 7-9. 
Brian
I couldn’t ask for much more than this as a Vikings Fan on a bye week. Hehe.