Boy if you like high pressure football make sure you catch the Green Bay v Minnesota game today.
There are already a ton of reasons to watch this game. Packers-Vikings is a one of the oldest rivalries in football and is always entertaining. You've got the whole Bert Favor saga going on. Does he like Brad Childress? Does he hate him? Are they locked in epic game of monopoly where both men are trapped in jail and trying to roll doubles so they don't have to cough up the 50 clams ? I don't know.
Could this be Favor's last game against the Packers ? Probably, but who knows. There are all kinds of questions to be answered in this game but the one you should be watching for is this.
Can the Green Bay Packers, who are notorious for letting the Vikings get to them, finally put a man sized fork in their most hated rivals? Because if Green Bay wins today it will mean that the Vikings are done. D-O-N-E done.
If they lose today it will drop "Chilly and the Vets" to a rotund 3-7 . Three and seven !! This is a team with a monstrous offensive line , Bert Favor, Adrian Peterson,Percy Harvin,Jarrod Allen, and many more studs all over the field. At 3-7 the Vikings would be 4 games out of first place in the NFC North to not one but two teams ! (Bears are 7-3 some crazy how) Needless to say it will be tough to climb over those two teams with only 6 games left to go. But even if they somehow do that they only have 2 division games left and can only go 3-3 in division at best. This of course means that even if they do catch the Bears and Packers they would still loose the tiebreakers.
So winning the division will be all but mathematically impossible if they loose today. So what about a playoff spot you say ? Well lets look at the good old NFC shall we.
Should Vikings fall to 3-7 that would mean ( even if every game goes there way this week) that they have the 11th best record in the NFC. So that said, they would have 10 teams above them and the top 6 teams , the Bears,Packers,Giants,Eagles,Falcons and Saints all with at 6 wins or more. On top of that there could be 3 more teams tied the Vikes at 3-7 . !!!
With only 6 weeks left the best the Vikings could do would be 9-7. If they somehow turn everything around and win 6 in a row to finish the season I mean. With no shot to win there own division and at least 7 teams with 6 wins already I'm not sure it's even mathematically possible for 9-7 to be good enough to win a playoff spot in NFC this year. You will need at least 10 wins to get a wild card spot this year.
So for a team with all that talent, how does it feel to out of it after only 10 weeks. Your done Minnesota. Maybe trying to ride Green Bay's coat tails and letting one player play by his own set of rules wasn't such a good idea was it ?
By the way , on this same subject. Hey Cincinnati , you just let up 28 unanswered points to the Bills and are about to go to down to 2-8. You went from winning the division last year to 2-8 ( also out of the playoffs) just by signing T.O.
Good job Cinnci.
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