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The day is finally upon us. All season long, we watch game after game in anticipation of the opportunity to make the playoffs and go on another Super Bowl Run.
BEFORE DIVING IN.........LET'S PAY TRIBUTE TO WHY WE'RE REALLY PLAYING TODAY
AND WITH THAT BEING SAID...........THE PLAYOFFS ARE FINALY HERE !!!!!
And today's the day we begin to separate the contenders and the pretenders.
Once again we are aiming to get here
But the Road back to the Big Bowl will be hard this year
Unlike the mass homersism due to overdoses of Kool Aide dominating this board............as it was last week...........this will be a very tough game.......as it was last week. The Vikings strengths on a slower surface pose a legitmate threat to physically tear a sometimes soft Green Bay Packers team down in the trenches. The Dam Vikings.....classic overachievers.........A few years ago I'd have bet a loot Reds Raiders would see the RatBowl playoffs before the Vikings saw another playoff game..........but I'd have been wrong again. Team has no fear.....nothing to lose........and a sincere change to shock the world. All 14 ESPN announcers picked the Packers. The Rats seem just as confident as they were the first time we played the NY Giants at Lambeau
DUDE'S
Make no mistake about it...............this is going to be a
And one of these teams will be knocked out cold.
I know.........I know.......everybody is drunk on Kool Aide.........ALL DAY Peterson is marching into town after torching us for 400 yards in the last two games. Watch Game one again.......if Ponder is even average that game they beat us at Lambeau the first game. And he's been serviceable lately. He'll be effiecient and find his TE in Rudolph and some of the clods playing WR because GB will be worried about Peterson. Not sold this can be a game yet ?
Consider the following:
For a while there Green Bay was dominant at home in the playoffs. That dominance is gone. Green Bay is 2-4 in their last six home playoff games. Even some of their own players, such as Greg Jennings, admits he'd rather play on the road than in Green Bay during the playoffs. This is a team built for the greatest show in Turf, not a Frozen Tundra
They also have two ideal gifts from the football gods........first off.........the temperatures and conditions could make it more challenging for a high powerered finesse passing offense to be consistent. Secondly, their DL gets to face the Packers offensive line....a unit that has been cursed with injuries to Brian Buluga and Derrok Justine Harrell the Second. They are not terrible..........but their erratic play is all over the place and Jarred Allen and company have to be licking their chops at the opportunity to ground this high powered passing attack with an attack of their own on our starting QB. .........who by the way...........was hit and sacked more than any QB in the NFL.
When the Packers are on defense, expect a healthy dose of All Day Peterson combined with some nice high percentage play action passes of Christian Ponder when Green Bay is forced to safety blitz and cheat up in an effort to stop the run. I'm not sure how much I like our chances when you breakdown what's happened recently along with the personnell we have. The Packers secondary has been near pathetic in offering run support. Tramon Williams and Morgan Burnett, two of our better players on defense, wanted no part of sticking All Day Peterson last week. The team combined for 10 missed tackles on All Day over the two games they played. Just think of the personnell.......teams drool over the athletic abilities of Sam Shields, Casey Hayward, Jerron McMillan, and Morgan Burnett. But those dude's don't scare anybody with their hits and their tackling is avererage at best even in the eyes of a homer. Regarding the linebackers, besides our Claymaker, we don't have a Desmond Bishop out there to try to blow up a bit hit...heck, we don't even have a Nick Barnett...who we could use this game. We have try hard Hawk and some other heap we try to hide.
It's hard to envision stopping AP; hopefully we can kind of contain him. Over the past six games vs da Pack, all day has averaged over 139 yards rushing per game and over a 6yd average per carry. He's the threat of all threats...........and P.S...........yes, MN made the playoffs.......and HE IS THE MVP. All Day and the Vikings are old school power house football. If they can keep the game close, the Packers could easily lose their fifth home playoff game in the last 11 years in which they were over 6 point favorites.
On the other hand, Green Bay, finally, seems to be full strength in terms of their starting WR and TE Core.....(Quarless doens't count because he's a JAG). With all of these weapons, I'm not really sure how Minnesota's secondary can match up with all of them. Has anybody noticed Jermichael Finley starting to go downfield like he often should ? Dude has only dropped one pass over the last five games as well........hmmm
Jennings will also be looking to go out with a bang, and they have a healthy Jordy and Randall Cobb Back. Coupled with an ever improving new RB in Harris, if Green Bay stays away from turnovers and getting Rodgers killed it should be able to move the ball pretty effectively. But that Packer OL vs Vikings DL is still scary and IMO will make it a huge challenge to punch the ball into the end zone when the field is shortened.
All together...........this equals a very close game. Say it ain't so............but it could come down to........the Kickers ? Well if it does I still don't have a ton of faith Crosby has recovered from being mindscrewed yet......and MN has as good of a kicker as there is in the game.
So here are a list of predictions along with da whammy special. Wist shows up to blast Dom Capers; Red is drunk, praises Jarrett Bush, and then curses him when he wonders why in the hell he's in on a defensive play. And mmdk rips Mason Crosby a new one.
The only deserving MVP runs off another 165 yards versus Green Bay and totals over 200yds. Crosby misses a field goal, the Vikings kicker bangs one though with seconds left in the game.
Yup..............everything crashes tomorow. Vikings 30 Packers 27. Take it to the Bank.............and while our world will come crashing down, the our good friends from Minnesota will once have that lovin feelin
Whammy be born again !!!!!
BEFORE DIVING IN.........LET'S PAY TRIBUTE TO WHY WE'RE REALLY PLAYING TODAY
AND WITH THAT BEING SAID...........THE PLAYOFFS ARE FINALY HERE !!!!!
And today's the day we begin to separate the contenders and the pretenders.
Once again we are aiming to get here
But the Road back to the Big Bowl will be hard this year
Unlike the mass homersism due to overdoses of Kool Aide dominating this board............as it was last week...........this will be a very tough game.......as it was last week. The Vikings strengths on a slower surface pose a legitmate threat to physically tear a sometimes soft Green Bay Packers team down in the trenches. The Dam Vikings.....classic overachievers.........A few years ago I'd have bet a loot Reds Raiders would see the RatBowl playoffs before the Vikings saw another playoff game..........but I'd have been wrong again. Team has no fear.....nothing to lose........and a sincere change to shock the world. All 14 ESPN announcers picked the Packers. The Rats seem just as confident as they were the first time we played the NY Giants at Lambeau
DUDE'S
Make no mistake about it...............this is going to be a
And one of these teams will be knocked out cold.
I know.........I know.......everybody is drunk on Kool Aide.........ALL DAY Peterson is marching into town after torching us for 400 yards in the last two games. Watch Game one again.......if Ponder is even average that game they beat us at Lambeau the first game. And he's been serviceable lately. He'll be effiecient and find his TE in Rudolph and some of the clods playing WR because GB will be worried about Peterson. Not sold this can be a game yet ?
Consider the following:
For a while there Green Bay was dominant at home in the playoffs. That dominance is gone. Green Bay is 2-4 in their last six home playoff games. Even some of their own players, such as Greg Jennings, admits he'd rather play on the road than in Green Bay during the playoffs. This is a team built for the greatest show in Turf, not a Frozen Tundra
They also have two ideal gifts from the football gods........first off.........the temperatures and conditions could make it more challenging for a high powerered finesse passing offense to be consistent. Secondly, their DL gets to face the Packers offensive line....a unit that has been cursed with injuries to Brian Buluga and Derrok Justine Harrell the Second. They are not terrible..........but their erratic play is all over the place and Jarred Allen and company have to be licking their chops at the opportunity to ground this high powered passing attack with an attack of their own on our starting QB. .........who by the way...........was hit and sacked more than any QB in the NFL.
When the Packers are on defense, expect a healthy dose of All Day Peterson combined with some nice high percentage play action passes of Christian Ponder when Green Bay is forced to safety blitz and cheat up in an effort to stop the run. I'm not sure how much I like our chances when you breakdown what's happened recently along with the personnell we have. The Packers secondary has been near pathetic in offering run support. Tramon Williams and Morgan Burnett, two of our better players on defense, wanted no part of sticking All Day Peterson last week. The team combined for 10 missed tackles on All Day over the two games they played. Just think of the personnell.......teams drool over the athletic abilities of Sam Shields, Casey Hayward, Jerron McMillan, and Morgan Burnett. But those dude's don't scare anybody with their hits and their tackling is avererage at best even in the eyes of a homer. Regarding the linebackers, besides our Claymaker, we don't have a Desmond Bishop out there to try to blow up a bit hit...heck, we don't even have a Nick Barnett...who we could use this game. We have try hard Hawk and some other heap we try to hide.
It's hard to envision stopping AP; hopefully we can kind of contain him. Over the past six games vs da Pack, all day has averaged over 139 yards rushing per game and over a 6yd average per carry. He's the threat of all threats...........and P.S...........yes, MN made the playoffs.......and HE IS THE MVP. All Day and the Vikings are old school power house football. If they can keep the game close, the Packers could easily lose their fifth home playoff game in the last 11 years in which they were over 6 point favorites.
On the other hand, Green Bay, finally, seems to be full strength in terms of their starting WR and TE Core.....(Quarless doens't count because he's a JAG). With all of these weapons, I'm not really sure how Minnesota's secondary can match up with all of them. Has anybody noticed Jermichael Finley starting to go downfield like he often should ? Dude has only dropped one pass over the last five games as well........hmmm
Jennings will also be looking to go out with a bang, and they have a healthy Jordy and Randall Cobb Back. Coupled with an ever improving new RB in Harris, if Green Bay stays away from turnovers and getting Rodgers killed it should be able to move the ball pretty effectively. But that Packer OL vs Vikings DL is still scary and IMO will make it a huge challenge to punch the ball into the end zone when the field is shortened.
All together...........this equals a very close game. Say it ain't so............but it could come down to........the Kickers ? Well if it does I still don't have a ton of faith Crosby has recovered from being mindscrewed yet......and MN has as good of a kicker as there is in the game.
So here are a list of predictions along with da whammy special. Wist shows up to blast Dom Capers; Red is drunk, praises Jarrett Bush, and then curses him when he wonders why in the hell he's in on a defensive play. And mmdk rips Mason Crosby a new one.
The only deserving MVP runs off another 165 yards versus Green Bay and totals over 200yds. Crosby misses a field goal, the Vikings kicker bangs one though with seconds left in the game.
Yup..............everything crashes tomorow. Vikings 30 Packers 27. Take it to the Bank.............and while our world will come crashing down, the our good friends from Minnesota will once have that lovin feelin
Whammy be born again !!!!!
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