Bed Posts

I didn’t get to watch Sunday Night Football live; I had to watch it on tape. Accordingly, it’s too late to formulate a truly thoughtful response to the Packers-Vikings game, so let me take just the quick few minutes required to make some random observations before I go to bed…

• HUGE WIN!
• Too many Vikings fans in Lambeau Field! We need to get the TSA in there to monitor the gates and keep these intruders from going where they don’t belong.
• I don’t think there is a team in the NFL right now that I would hate losing to as much as the Minnesota Vikings.
• Conversely, I don’t think there is a team I enjoy seeing us defeat more than those same, odious Vikings.
• We saw a number of significant improvements in this week’s performance. We cut way down on penalties. Our receivers weren’t dropping passes. Our front line gave Rodgers very good protection. Only one special teams lapse.
• How long did the last two minutes of this game take? And was it not shaping up like a nightmare for us – watching Favre work more 4th-quarter, come-from-behind magic, while the Packers lose yet another game by 3 points?!
• It’s too bad that the Packers don’t have the Badgers’ running game. I admired how McCarthy tried to get the Packers to do a ball-control, grind-it-out offense in the second half, but it just didn’t have the same umph that the Badgers show.
• On those couple of fourth-and-inches plays, why did we stack it up in an obvious running formation and try to go against the bulk of the Viking defense? Why not spread it out and have Rodgers run it forward the same way he scored that great touchdown last week against the Dolphins?
• What was up with all those “back shoulder” passes that went to the wrong zip code?
• I no longer find it deeply disturbing to see Brett Favre in a Viking uniform. Now I just find it annoying.
• After suffering through so many INTs when he was wearing green-and-gold, how nice was it to pick off a few of Favre’s passes when he was playing for the enemy?!
• On the whole, great play-calling on offense tonight. The Packers mixed it up, used a lot of different weapons, threw deep, threw screens, called runs… very nice!
• Huge win.