Admit it.

When you turned on Monday Night Football and saw the field covered in snow, you thought Ahman Green was going to calculate the 2-3 worst times to put the ball on the ground, then with sickening precision work his formulaic magic, killing a big drive or stopping momentum like a head shot on an eight-pointer. Thump.

But it never happened. Then again, maybe coach McCarthy was thinking the same thing, and that was why Green only touched the ball 14 times, while his opposing counterpart (the Seahawk’s Shaun Alexander), running on a freshly minted hoof, was able to gallup through the Packers defense like a stallion through the morning mist.

At the outset I liked the game plan - keep the ball largely out of Green’s hands and in Favre’s; either our receivers are going to catch the ball or nobody is. And it worked for the better part of the first half, except for one forced pass to Bubba Franks.

And they led by as much as 9 points in the second half, but Hasselbeck and Alexander were getting their sea legs back under them around that time. From there it was simple rock-pounding.

Packers shouldn't lost to teams that lost to teams they've beaten. Right?All in all the math just didn’t add up - the Seattle Seahawks had yet to show even an interest in defending their NFC Champion status, winning only one game convincingly since week 3 (and that was against the Raiders). They had lost to San Francisco, who’d lost to Arizona in week 1, 34-27. The Green Bay Packers beat the AZ Cardinals 31-14. Holmgren hasn’t shown any particular skill at beating his old team (remember the overtime Hasselbeck gaff? “We’ll take the ball and we’re gonna win!”), and we were winning the thing partway through the third.

It just don’t add up!

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