One blogger rule is never to apologize for the length of time between posts. But the truth is, I’m feeling a little guilty. There are some 200-odd daily visitors to the site, and for the last few weeks they’ve been treated to bupkis. So I have some catching up to do. And there’s so much to catch up on that I have to do it rapid-fire, otherwise the drool of boredom will spill onto your keyboard and short out your pc. So here we go:
Packers over the Denver Broncos – starstruck, afraid of meeting their Superbowl daddy from a decade ago or playing down to their opponent, the Packers couldn’t finish against an inferior team until a miracle was pulled from Favre’s jock on the first play from scrimmage in OT. It did make me wonder if all the talk about Favre’s failing arm strength was purposely leaked to get Champ Bailey and crew to bite on short-route fakes, as Bronco DB’s were beaten deep twice. And by the way – Tony Kornheiser fawned over Deanna Favre in the MNF booth like they’d just let him out of the high school yearbook room after spending two years there without ever seeing or touching a girl. He then proceeded to talk so glowingly about Favre that you’d swear that while working on that yearbook he got to touch Favre. Several times. The glowing coverage Favre’s getting is why people across the country wanted him out last year. Enough already.
Packers over the Kansas City Chiefs – Homer calls abound, as Larry Johnson’s “claiming the moon for the Chiefs†move resulted in no penalty, but Charles Woodson’s reputation for pass interference alone is good enough for at least one call against him. Johnson ends up paying for his flag smack when he’s wrestled to the ground later in the game with a leg bent at an unnatural angle.
Packers over the Minnesota Vikings – Packers defense sends a message for a second consecutive week to one-trick NFL franchises: If you have only one offensive weapon when we roll into town, you’ll have zero by the time we leave. Adrian Peterson gets taken down with a clean hit much like Johnson the week before, and leaves the game early, like Johnson the week before.
Packers over the Carolina Peppers – Work forced me to catch this game by radio, and I’m pretty sure that if Julius Peppers didn’t play for the Panthers, this would have been a New England Patriots / Buffalo Bills style blowout. If Peppers wasn’t getting to Favre by blowing past a gimpy Mark Tauscher, he was catching receivers from behind with open-field tackles. No more than 90 seconds passed between callouts of Peppers’ name when the Panther defense was on the field. If Peppers played iron-man style (offense and defense), the Panthers may have won.
SuperDuh – DeShawn Wynn woke up and smelled the pink slip when he realized that the worst stinger anyone else has ever suffered in the history of the NFL resulted in riding the bench for a month, while he was put on injured reserve for the remainder of the year to “help him heal.†The 7th round pick nobody else wanted started making waves last week, threatening to file a grievance with the league to force the Packers to release him. Hello? McFly?! Do you think your chances are better with some other team? 31 some other teams had 6 chances to pick you before Green Bay in the draft and they passed. The drama queen act you’ve pulled since you got here probably hasn’t endeared you to the other NFL teams looking for a ball carrier. So go ahead, fight for your release – then the Packers can come back and pick you up as a free agent for minimum wage to sweep the empty beer cups out of Lambeau on Monday mornings.
The Packers are tied for the best record in the NFC as they head into Detroit for a turkey day tilt. More on that later.
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