Week 8 - Favregeddon part deux

Yes! That was nice. I am pleased as punch. A solid win.

I know we have some work do do in our secondary... and now I am suspicious from Darren Sharper's commentary "that our system wasn't working for him" last year, seeing him having a pro bowl year in New Orleans. I wonder if we should play a more man on man pressure bump and run ball hawking style. We still aren't getting the interceptions yet. I am tired of the safe let them up and down between the twenties don't give up the big play defensive style.

( Didn't do us any good against the ravens!)

Our numbers are good. Favre looks great and is on pace for the pro-bowl. AP is getting his numbers. Our receivers and Tight Ends are producing. We're getting decent sacks. I still want to be more disruptive. I want our defense to SCORE more. I hope we pull out a few tricks in the second half of the season. I don't expect much in the next couple games, we really have a cream puff schedule and i anticipate some simple football. I also wonder if T Jack will get more clock? Will he run any wild cat offense? Will we rest Favre when we are up 21 points?

Time will tell! I am not gonna talk about the usual stuff people talk about any more. I hope we see more "complete games" where all three segments of the team perform. We had the offense give up 2 defensive touchdowns on the day our defense played great vs PITT. We had our defense get abused by the Ravens in the 2nd half and squeaked by them even though our offense scored a lot of points.

Anyways here are some game snaps for the Packers game. I loved sweeping them as you all did.

NFL game mix is nice during commercials

First Ever Favre only cam online. Was fun during commercial breaks

A La Moss 11 years ago! Great block by AP at end too

Solid game ending drive!

"1000 words"

I guess I didn't have much to say?

We were six and Oh!

When the going is good, or when the games are so exciting and we come out on top, I guess I don't have much to say. The plays speak for themselves. This is exactly what I expected from our team, so I am very pleased.

there are always talking points... and I will be sure to do a better job from here on out of writing my post game thoughts. Sometimes I was too nerve wracked, sometimes I was too happy, sometimes I was too drunk to sit and rehash all we had just seen.

Now we're still 6 and 1 heading into Packer Week the Sequel!

Then we hit the bye week. I would love to be 7 and 1, obviously, with the season sweep of the Pack heading into the bye week. I am curious about Berrian, Winfield and EJs true health. I am looking forward to see if Sidney can keep it up. If Jared Allen will have more monster games and if we can get AP some home runs. I am very happy with Favre's play, he has been instrumental in making us 6-1 and not 4 and 3 i feel.

We had Pittsburgh on the chopping table and we got unlucky. A bad tip for a pick six... the phantom tripping call etc etc but at the end of the day we had them at the end and we shot ourselves in the foot.

How about that Percy Harvin? I am so pleased we took him. More props to CHILLY. where are all the CHILLY haters now? He is the architect of this team, he attracted, traded for an "curated" this roster so he should get props.

Some people sill yack about "play-calling" ( like on our game ending pick six, "shoulda done a draw play" etc. ) but that's another blog. Football is the only sport where play-calling can be so pivotal in an argument. You never here people complain about what shot a golfer chose to approach with, or if they're running too many pick and rolls in the NBA, or if a pitcher shouldn't have thrown two sinkers in a row. But you always here people argue hypotheticals about play-calling, which is soooo easy to do AFTER you've seen what defense scheme the team ran on the play that was a "bad play call." I liked the screen, great way to beat a blitz, it sailed inches high, got tipped, bad luck, not bad play. Maybe he catches it and gets tackled, and? then it's just good defense.

Anyways I digress. I will leave you with some of my snaps from the season thus far. Sadly I lost mine of the Favre - Lewis connection

The Set Up

Percy's first Kick Return TD

After San Fran Game Winning TD

Bad teams find ways to lose

Then we beat Baltimore on the "wide left"!

Then lost to PITT on those kooky returns.

It happens.

Six and One and on top of our division heading into Green Bay. Will we sack him 8 times again? Will they hold AP to under 60 yards again? Will we beat them deep on some blitzes? Who knows. "That's why we play the games" haha

WEEK TWO - VIKINGS VS LIONS

YAY!

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