Official Vikings Week Discussion Thread

[denverYooper]

Agree with Woodbuck and others that this is a must-win to keep playoffs/division hopes alive. Carolina and SF are in the driver's seat for Wildcard spots IMO, and hoping Stafford gets hurt is a longshot (and unsportsmanlike).
That said, assuming Rodgers sits until after the Detroit game (likely) I'm not sure they'll be able to win enough to keep pace. Not with how the defense has let them down.
I hope I'm wrong.

The Lions are the only team in the NFC North that have started the same QB every game. Remember when he was made of glass?

It doesn't matter, though. The kitties showed themselves to still be prone to collapse when they're in the driver's seat. It remains to be seen whether or not they can shake that rap to get themselves up into "perennial playoff contender" territory.

[denverYooper]

Chris Tomasson @christomasson 21m
Vikings wide receiver Greg Jennings calls the Packers “a team that we feel like we can get. They’re struggling right now.’’

[woodbuck27]

Chris Tomasson @christomasson 21m
Vikings wide receiver Greg Jennings calls the Packers “a team that we feel like we can get. They’re struggling right now.’’

Thank You ... Greg Jennings.

Hasn't anyone taught him to keep your trap shut before facing an opponent and if you do make a pronouncement...keep it respectful?

GO PACKERS !

[denverYooper]

He's probably just mad that GB's 3rd string QB is better than the guys Minnesota has throwing to him.

[Pugger]

NO !! Sure it's one game at a time but......

Every divisional game now will be extremely important. If we lose to the Vikings this week it's over. The Detroit Lions opened as 9.5 point favourites over the Tamp Bay Buc's to win at home. It's Bears +1.0 at the Rams.

Are you observing what's going on in the NFCS? The Panthers (7-3) won MNF last night and on the heels of the Saints (8-2). Both of these teams should win playoff spots. One wining the Division and the other flipping to the Wild card spot. That scenario leaves one Wild card spot open.

Currently in the NFCN the Lions and Bears are both 6-4 and lead the Packers by one game. The 49ers and Cardinals are at 6-4 in the NFCW and the Seahawks look like their unstoppable and strongly in the hunt for the NO. 1 seed.

We've got to somehow defeat the Vikings this week. Go into Detroit in week 13 'on a short week' that favors the home team trailing by a game and win that game for any real chance for the playoffs.

You feel if we go to 6-5 with a win over the Vikings and lose in Detroit and fall to 6-6 and win out from there ... that 10-6 will do it. I don't wish the Packers to go win Vikings and lose Lions and have to win out over the remainder of the schedule. To do so and at 10-6 lose out for a Wild card spot would really suck.

I feel it's one game at a time and the Packers must win the next two and look at it from there.

Er, that's why I said we shouldn't concern ourselves with Detroit just yet. One game at a time gentlemen.

[Pugger]

Thank You ... Greg Jennings.

Hasn't anyone taught him to keep your trap shut before facing an opponent and if you do make a pronouncement...keep it respectful?

GO PACKERS !

He isn't saying anything that isn't true. Without AR and with all of our injuries we are a shell of what we were in September.

[woodbuck27]

He isn't saying anything that isn't true. Without AR and with all of our injuries we are a shell of what we were in September.

You simply and just never go there. That generates bad karma.

You never stir a sleeping tiger.

That's a general rule of ethics and common sense in Pro sports Pugger.

[woodbuck27]

Er, that's why I said we shouldn't concern ourselves with Detroit just yet. One game at a time gentlemen.

In your scenario the Packers somehow eke out a win over the Vikings and end this week with a 6-5 record as they prepare for a game on the road with the Detroit Lions in week 13 - Thanksgiving Day.

You claim it's not imperitive then with that victory over Minny, that we defeat Detroit on Thanksgiving Day.

The Lions opened as 9 Point Favourites at Home to Tampa Bay this week.

According to fan picks the Lions are favoured to win by 94% - 6% picking the BUC's. That's an approximate ratio of 16:1

One might deduce from that.... that the Detroit Lions are heavily favoured and most likely will defeat the Tampa Bay BUC's this week. If so their record go to 7-4....entering Thanksgiving week.

If that's the case then the Packers go to Detroit and if they lost to the Lions. The Packers will fall to a 6-6 record and the Lions elevate to 8-4. We would trail the Lions by two (2) games with four to play.

That wouldn't concern you, as a win in Detroit isn't imperitive as long as we defeat Minny this week!??

Pugger....No !

[red]

yeah but if we lose to the queens and the lions beat the shitty bucs

then we are two games back. and we are in real trouble

and if we then lose to the lions, then the season is over for sure

this weeks game is as close to must win as it gets

what pugger is saying is that we HAVE to win both games, and we can't overlook this weeks game or we'll get loss and pretty much be done

[woodbuck27]

yeah but if we lose to the queens and the lions beat the shitty bucs

then we are two games back. and we are in real trouble

and if we then lose to the lions, then the season is over for sure

this weeks game is as close to must win as it gets

what pugger is saying is that we HAVE to win both games, and we can't overlook this weeks game or we'll get loss and pretty much be done

Are we saying the same thing but in different ways?

I`m clearly saying that we must defeat the Vikings this week and then go into Detroit and win that game in week 13 as well. If we do so, we`ll be `most likely` tied with Detroit with a 7-5 record and get an edge over them in any tie break as it would stand to the end of week 13.

All that not considering what the Chicago Bears (6-5) will have done over the next two weeks....at St. Louis this week and at Minny in week 13.

We must win this week and we must win the following week in Detroit.

[red]

yeah we are, and so is pugger. thats my point

you kept acting like you too were disagreeing, but i think you're both on the same page

[Pugger]

yeah but if we lose to the queens and the lions beat the shitty bucs

then we are two games back. and we are in real trouble

and if we then lose to the lions, then the season is over for sure

this weeks game is as close to must win as it gets

what pugger is saying is that we HAVE to win both games, and we can't overlook this weeks game or we'll get loss and pretty much be done

Thanks Red.

Woody, what the hell difference does it make what some fan like me says about the game on an internet message board?? What Karma am I messing with? Good lord...

[George Cumby]

If we cant stop Calvin Johnson it doesnt matter who the QB is on the Pack.

Anyone seen our secondary play recently?

[pbmax]

Wes Hodkiewicz @WesHod 12h
The #Packers designated rookie OL J.C. Tretter as PUP-returned to practice today, keeping door open for return http://pck.rs/19ES6O0

Wes Hodkiewicz @WesHod 12h
Also, #Packers released rookie offensive lineman Bryan Collins from the practice squad. He'd spent first 11 weeks with the club.


Not sure if the moves are related. The PS backup center is Gerhart I think.

The article makes this seem like Tertter could just be getting the maximum possible window to practice and return. It apparently hasn't happened yet.

[woodbuck27]

Thanks Red.

Woody, what the hell difference does it make what some fan like me says about the game on an internet message board?? What Karma am I messing with? Good lord...

There you go mixing in with two separate posted issues:

a) The Packers schedule over the next two weeks and need or not to win:

b) A comment on recent strength issues with the Green Bay Packers and a Greg Jennings comment related to that. A comment that might 'only' 'FIRE UP' the misery that I see in a remaining healthy defensive roster. The bad karma that Greg Jennings comment might possible instill with any Packer players with a sense of real pride reading Greg Jennings comment.

That such a comment 'might' bring BAD KARMA upon the Minnesota Vikings in terms of a negative outcome for that game with the Packers this week (or week 12 of the NFL schedule).


I'll stick to my position and maybe that will be the end of it:

RE: a)

I`m clearly saying that we must defeat the Vikings this week and then go into Detroit and win that game in week 13 as well. If we do so, we`ll be `most likely` tied with Detroit with a 7-5 record and get an edge over them in any tie break as it would stand to the end of week 13.

All that not considering what the Chicago Bears (6-5) will have done over the next two weeks....at St. Louis this week and at Minny in week 13.

We must win this week and we must win the following week in Detroit.

RE: b)

My comment on Greg Jennings comment and how that relates to bad karma is in direct reference to Greg Jennings comment and....

Not to you Pugger.

PACKERS !