Apparently Brett Favre didn’t forget how to play in the winter after all. Of course it helps when your running back goes for 201 and 3 TDs. I guess this means the Packers officially have a ground game now. And we know they have a defense, led by the human missile known as Atari Bigby, who by the end of that game yesterday had the Seahawks receivers twitching and talking to themselves like the crazy piss-smelling guy across the aisle from you on the bus.
The Packers throttled Seattle in such fashion as to quiet just about all the murmuring about their being overrated. This sets up a potentially epic match-up next week in Texas Stadium…assuming the Cowboys can get past the Giants.
Speaking of the Giants…remember when the Vikings made them put on a frilly dress and do a Shirley Temple dance in the Meadowlands last year? Seems like a long time ago now. Things have turned around since then for the G-Men – they’ve actually become a formidable team, and are expected to give Dallas a run for their money at least. I myself was once inclined to think New York would keep the game close, but after yesterday’s games I’ve changed my mind – I now think Dallas will blow them out. That extra week off, more often than not, is a huge factor. Actually, I think both of today’s games will be routs. Dallas 30-13 over New York, and Indy 35-17 over San Diego. Bob Sanders and that Colts D will contain LaDanian Tomlinson, and Philip Rivers will not be able to match Peyton Manning (duh). Meanwhile, Romo will find that his mojo was not in fact sapped by Jessica Simpson in Cabo along with his bodily fluids.
As for yesterday’s Pats-Jags game…give the Jags credit for taking away New England’s deep passing game; but, true to his reputation as the game’s greatest adjuster, Bill Belichick simply short-passed Jacksonville to death. It may not have been the absolute blow-out a lot of us expected, but New England still won convincingly enough to maintain their status as prohibitive favorites. And Tom Brady…26-of-28? I don’t care if most of those were dinkers, that’s still pretty dang good (and the two missed ones were drops; he was that close to being 28-for-28).
One piece of advice to New England though…I don’t care if the other team is triple-covering Randy Moss, you might want to try to force a few in there to him anyway, just to keep him from pouting. There was a shot of Brady talking to Moss on the sidelines toward the end of the game, and you know Brady was telling Moss he was going to try to throw one to him. And don’t give me any of this stuff about the new Randy Moss…to paraphrase The Who: Meet the new Moss, same as the old Moss. He’ll lose interest if he doesn’t get the ball.