Upset: Bears Defeat Vikings In OT, 36-30

you’ll want to avoid them if you’re a wild card team (and the Vikings win, putting the Eagles in the divisional round).

Luckily for us, things have got a lot simpler, and there’s no conceivable scenario for us to play the Eagles.

If we win, we play Arizona.
If we lose and the Vikings win, we play Arizona.
If we lose, the Vikings lose, and the Eagles win: we play Minnesota
If we lose, the Vikings lose, and the Cowboys win: we play Dallas

I’d like to play either Arizona (I think we match up well), or Minnesota (stumbling, tough to beat a team 3 times). Dallas I’d like to avoid, because it seems like they’re starting to find themselves.

Guess that makes it 0-8.

at Favre playing In Philly with like wind chills in the teens and snow

Use that, the NFL.com playoff picture, and ESPN. All good sources.

Or if we hadn’t lost to the winless Bucs…Or how about if the Ravens kicker makes that 45 yard FG to win? Oh well, we’re in the playoffs, that’s all that really matters.

Just kind of funny to look back at this year. With the huge problem areas we have had this year, we still were relatively close at winning the division. Makes me really excited for the years to come, and after the Vikings are Favreless.

It’s funny because our early season problems are seeming to become the Vikings problems. Their o-line still isn’t playing nearly as bad as ours once was but they have looked less then mediocore as of late. Their kickoff unit looked horrendous and managed to kill any momentum the Vikes had built up throughout the game, just like ours always seemed to do.

Their secondary is weak. Let’s just be frank about it. When teams can slow down Allen and co. they get shredded. Winfield is tremendous up around the LOS, but in coverage man on man he is a little above average at best. Griffin is ok, and their nickel and dime backs are brutal. Tyrell Johnson has been bad the whole year, and Williams has screamed mediocrocy the whole year. And with Henderson now out, any team with a good TE will be able to exploit Brinkley.

Yeah, they scored 30 points but lets keep in mind it was against a Bears team without their starting Le, #1 Cb, Rolb, Mlb, Fs, and Ss. I would hope the Vikings would be able to shred them.

Favre looked good but in all honesty how hard is it to throw checkdowns the whole game, and then got YAC from his Wr’s. This was largely due to the Bears dropping their 2 safties deep every play, and trying to have their some of their backup Cb’s try and cover Rice and Harvin. I’m not trying to discredit Favre’s play because he was great and obviously he is going to take what the defense gives him but against playoff caliber teams he won’t have the luxury of just throwing to the checkdown, and having that player gain 10-15 yards on that play.

I think the Vikings are in trouble. The loss of Henderson has really hurt them, and since his absence they have looked very mediocore. Without their defense consistently holding teams to 10-17 points a game, I don’t know if they’ll be able to make a run in the playoffs like I had previously thought they would. With the o-line troubles they’ve had combined with Chilly’s playing call troubles every so often I don’t think they can win in a shootout with a team who has a top caliber offense.

Their definitely still dangerous and could still make a run but at this point I just don’t see it happening. Their o-line and defense has looked mediocore the past 4 weeks, and unless that changes I just don’t see it. I am a Packers fan though, and would like almost nothing more then to see the Vikings go out in the 1st round of the playoffs so keep that in mind when reading my take on things.

I think their biggest concern is this back and forth between Favre and Childress. They are trying to say there is nothing there but what IS there is a difference in how they think the game should be called and honestly I’d take Favre’s side. When Childress/Bevell are in control of the playcalling, they suck…when they let Brett play his game, they are almost unstoppable. The past few weeks they’ve been trying to show us they can still run and they can’t. Their Oline can’t run block [perio].

No Urlacher either…

he got flattened. Its like watching a high school cheerleader trying to stop the run

He just rushes up field as fast as possible towards the QB, that’s it. It’s nice to see this world class twat get shut down again. DPOY candidate my ass.

sounds like a natural fit.

he’ll probably be able to pop all year.