What's worse then bye week??

Playing the Lions!

"I'm not too impressed" <--- LINK

Mid season here is where we stand, though I didn't foresee our defense being so average overall, I didn't anticipate being so high in scoring either.

Defensive Ranking Mid-Season

Offensive Ranking Mid-Season

Hopefully we can make adjustments and become more of a disruptive team that can "finish them" and step on their throats.

And now back to the lions...

Let's hope we have a fruitful, smooth, injury free game and that our back-ups get some time.

Let's hope we beat them soundly by the end of the third quarter. (And don't let them closer)

I don't think it will be like the last few games we played against them because they still have a rookie at Qb, they can't blitz us like they did last year, nor put 9 men in the box for AP. Well, they can but Favre will abuse them.

This year week 2 they tried to fight and were up 10 to 7 at half. But we scored 20 unanswered points in the 2nd half and won. I recall Greenway had a couple picks and Favre was still playing with 17 plays and didn't know his receivers well yet. All of us were still unsure of our new look Vikings. (And then we had the San Fran Favre Magic TD... then we beat the Pack and we were rollin!)

This time it should be different. Now that we've gelled I anticipate us airing it out against them if they stop our run, which they could try to scheme. They have a good defensive line still.

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!