Week One vs Browns - WIN

MINNESOTA VIKINGS

(1-0-0)

34

CLEVELAND BROWNS

(0-1-0)

20

FINAL

Well, where to begin. We all saw the game. It started out slow with the Vikes having a hard time giving AP lots of lanes... the 3-4 Defense was pesky and effective for most of the first half. I know more then half my friends were getting antsy and sending me the "Childress sucks" texts.

I was more patient, but admittedly worried that we were gonna be anemic the whole game. That would not have been a nice way to start the season. Thankfully football games are four quarters - overall I grade us a "B" and I am very satisfied with our "product."

There are the obvious talking points, APs run, his total yards, Brett Favre's solid and unspectacular play, we gave up too many sacks, Percy Harvin had a great first game. He gets my game ball...

Fun to see Favre zip some passes too hard.. he still "has it." The receivers will adjust to his velocity and they will gel better on their routes... we saw a few where the WR zigged and Favre zagged etc. I am not worried. All things point to us being a Juggernaut. A "wear them down -break their spirit - step on their throat" kind of team. (yay!)

What else?? We gave up the punt return but i think it was more CRIBBS great skills then our bad execution. On the other ones we did solid. We also did pretty good in the penalty department and great in the turnover ration. Plus 2 will win us 90 percent of our games!

Here are a couple moments from the game that really set the tone for us and made it go from an uncomfortable nail biter full of angst and negativity to an easy victory and happy purple faces on all sides of the Chilly spectrum.

Huge momentum shifter!

A picture speaks 2000 yards er sumthin like that =p

Pre-Season game two thoughts. The Favre Has landed

YES! ok ok... it was weird. Seeing Favre in Purple... seeing the signs in the stands, seeing him walk around the sideline like a pervy old uncle out of place... it's hard to shake all the history, hard to forget I used to hate him (respectfully) and that he was the savior to all the pack fans.

He was the one in green and gold that delivered them to the superbowl, that broke every passing record of note and that was just a likeable, quotable everyman's man. He was their trump card year in and year out and you could say "Favre Sucks" all you wanted but trying to prove it was like trying to disprove Jesus to a Jesus freak.

Well Packer fans, you met our Purple Jesus ( 72 carries for 452 yards against you) so now meet your Purple Judas! ( on right --> )

Favre tells AP he is 37 times better then Darrel Thompson ever was

Moving on !

OK so a few thoughts and I am not going to pontificate too much here on a pre-season game, even with all the Favrifications going on.

• I like that Favre gets rid of it fast.
• T Jack looked good. His TDs were hot. Crom says keep him!
• I love AP I sure hope he doesn't get hurt twisting all the time after a tackle
• Our defense is looking DISRUPTIVE this year, finally! Will we get INTs ??? I really really want us to get INTs more then 1 every 40 passing attempts. Can we get one every 25 like the league leading GIANTs did last year. Can we limit our dumb turnovers and penalties?
• I think EJ is gonna go all pro this year
• Same goes for Shiancoe
• Bobby Wade will be the Mark Lemke of the NFL this year
• Favre will tie Jim Marshall for most consecutive starts on opening day. Neato
• Hooray for CHILLY! If you still hate him you're the one that can't evolve and think forwardly and is uncreative. We wouldn't even have Farve if he didn't bring in Hutch and Jared Allen and Longwell and AP etc etc etc. He is the architect of this team that built us a Vikings Ship to jump aboard and be proud of. We've come a long way from the Love Boat rubes. A long way.

Favrapalooza

Welcome to the team, Mr. Favre!

PRE-SEASON GAME ONE THOUGHTS

It was nice seeing Farwell back and making the first special teams tackle of the game!

Welcome back Heath and EJ !

I thought Sage looked real real solid. He was hitting those simple timely routes we had problems hitting last year... those 7 and 8 yard slant and outs ETC. Negative people will say how it was against back up secondary but I think that's not relevant. The routes he hit were all well covered, the ball was put on the money every tie, in stride. It doesn't matter if you have a all pro corner or a back up one step behind your WR, it's the same challenge for the quarterback regardless- making the "routine plays routine" as Chilly likes to say. These are the keys to third down and red zone proficiency. (which we were bad at last year)

Our defensive pressure was really good throughout the game. I was impressed with how quickly they got to Manning.

Our RBs all looked great. It's a testament to the line for one, but also I think we have a real real deep RB core.

I was sad not to see HARVIN out there, I wasn't sure why he wasn't but we will see him this coming friday so...

EDIT

We just signed farve. dang!

no words (but im pleased)