Fuzzy & Jerry Lead The Way to Ambiguity!
I loved Greg Bedard's piece on how "It couldn't be worse". Look folks, that offensive line is a problem. Point the figure at who ever you like and the run defense has been bad. Maybe they will get better, but I don't see any reason to be a blood-drunk Packer partisan Monday night.
Ted Thompson pulled a Lombardi. He didn't get rid of the Hornung & Taylor. He got rid of the QB. And that old QB still has some life in him. Remember, those TD comebacks with no timeouts left? No offense to Aaron Rodgers. He's in there and hopefully for a long time. If he can beat the Vikings and Favre, he begins to build his own story. If not, I'm not going to hold it against him. Taking the punishment he has this season has resolved any question I had about his toughness.
My guess is that neither of these teams are going to the Super Bowl this year. They would both be underdogs and in the NFL teams like this make it sometimes, but they usually lose. They are both "good" teams with real weaknesses. Both are fun to watch this year.
Dante Culpepper and Randy Moss are gone and so is Darren Sharper and Mike Tice. Beavel and Childress are not exactly arch-enemy material. So I'm more than happy to let Brett Favre have his victory lap if he and his purple lutefish eating friends can earn it.
I'm going to underscore what I have been saying about the 2007 Packers and repeat the Aaron Rodgers corollary. Favre made that young offense play over-their-heads in 2007. Anyone, read Mike McCarthy, who found fault with Favre was simply looking too hard. The Rodgers Corollary is that he appears, barring injury, a worth successor to one of the greatest QBs of all-time. McCarthy and Thompson should get credit for that.
Even if you don't buy into this view, if the Packers win or lose, remember how lucky we are to have had this guy for 16 years. The Packer Hall of Fame & the Ring of Honor will be waiting. Why rush it? Go Brett and Go Pack!
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