Brett Favre on Monday Night Football

I’d say the vikings looked good, but as you mentioned it was partly the texans looking bad. In general the run blocking was quite good for the boys in purple pants, and the same can be said for blocking on their screen plays. The second half was not particularly exciting, with the game locked at a 17-10 score for a long time as both backup offenses tried and failed to mount threatening drives until late when the vikings sealed the game.

Since you did not mention the play, I will presume that you did not see the illegal block that Favre threw on a wildcat formation wide run. He threw a nasty crackback block on Houston safety, Eugene Wilson, leading with his throwing shoulder and taking out the knees. Favre got flagged, the safety appeared hurt, and Favre should be heavily fined.

Even Gruden, who staged a three-hour Favre love-fest, seemed to wince at the stupidity and cheapness of the play. The announcers noted the stupidity of running a wildcat play with Favre in the game, then running toward Favre such that he had to block in a preseason game, AND then Favre’s stupidity as a 40-year old QB to lead with his throwing shoulder with the torn rotator cuff and sore ribs.

Also, the commentary on the issue of Favre’s ribs softened the prior reports. The story told last night on air about Favre’s rib comment was that the hit in the last game was so hard and his ribs hurt so much that it FELT like his rib was cracked, but that doctors said he was not hurt. In other words, the whole rib thing was presented by ESPN last night in a much different light than what I saw presented before the game.

QB Brett Favre has lost some of the zip on his passes

Nope, that’s all I can say, nope.

I suppose Vikings fans should be happy with what they saw – he looked pretty much like the quarterback we saw last year. But I’m not exactly quaking in my boots either. The general consensus was that Favre would stretch the field, preventing teams from lining up 8 man fronts and giving Peterson room to run. From my vantage point, it looked like Houston was using a whole lot of 8 man fronts except on obvious passing downs. Favre still threw pretty much everything underneath (except for one classic case of Favre just tossing it up there as he was being hit, a ball which easily could have been intercepted). It’s pretty clear that stopping Peterson is still the key to beating the Vikings, and I don’t know if Favre’s deep ball is good enough at this point to be a consistent threat.

Favre is a viqueen now. I suppose if I was a “True Packer Fan” I’d understand! I have no interest whatsoever in what Favre does. He’s a Viking plain and simple. I don’t care. You want to post crap about Favre go to the Viqueer website!!

Favre looked okay. They blitzed a lot and the interior blocking was terrible. He was hit a lot and sacked twice but managed to only make one terrible pass attempt on a deep hail mary type deal. He had some nice plays after scrambling and a couple good passes to TE’s. His best pass of the night was not hauled in by Percy Harvin for a TD.

The defense got after their QB, hurting him again. Defense dominated except a long TD drive and a quick field goal drive with 30 sec left in the first half.

Bad side was an incredibly high number of penalties and several mental errors by Favre and also Percy Harvin. All in all they looked like a 10+ win team but no way to judge based on a preseason game, as Lions fans can attest.

Favre still thinks he can make the same throws he did 10 years ago. Packer receivers could get enough separation so this wasn’t as big a problem, but he’s going to be forcing some throws into extremely tight spaces this year, given the deficiencies of the Vikings receiving corps.

My take on the whole thing is that Brett will do well enough managing the games and distributing for them to have a good first half of the season. Then unfortunately he will get hurt, his starting streak will end, and the Vikings will be up $%#@ creek!
To bad, so sad, Brett you should of stayed retired and made us all glad!!