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  1. After reading pure homerism from most of the Vikings and Bears beat writers/journalists; I'm very appreciative of the unbiased analysts and writers that we have covering the Packers here in Wisconsin.

    You read articles and listen to interviews done by a lot of the guys from Chicago and Minnesota, and you'd think they took some of the most rabid fans out of the stadium and gave them a position at the paper. I love the way Silverstein, McGinn, Dunne, etc. tell it like they see it and don't just fawn over the team they're covering.
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  2. Side note, Tyler, I don't think "dead to rights" means what you think it does. It means something is certain, without question.
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  3. For Petersen to come off his surgery and to have the year he's having truly is incredible.

    However, the 'surgery component' shouldn't come into play in regard to the MVP voting. The determination of the MVP award should be based solely on how the player performed this year, and how valuable he was to their team. Whatever obstacles took place in the off-season is immaterial to this.

    The Vikings could miss the playoffs this year. So it's hard to vote for an MVP on a non-playoff team because almost by definition, whatever that player did, wasn't valuable enough to get to the playoffs.

    There is an award for overcoming an injury from the previous season and having a great year: Comeback Player of the Year. Obviously this will go to either Petersen or Manning.

    But as for MVP, I think you can make a far stronger case for Aaron Rodgers than Adrian Petersen. Rodgers took an offense with a weak offensive line, a weak running game, and a receiving corps never at 100%, and has produced what could be 12 victories, and really, 13, and possibly a number 2 seed.

    That to me is far more 'valuable' than someone rushing for 2000 yards on a potential 9-7 team about to play golf a week from now.
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  4. "But he is coming off a four-catch, 32-yard game in Houston, an effort the Vikings would love to replicate."

    If 4-for-32 is something to replicate, the Packers DBs can afford to tote their hammocks out onto the field - when a Viking receiver happens to actually catch something, they can open an eye, roll of, and go hogtie the cat.
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  5. What a bunch of Homer nonsense. I apologize right now to Tom Silverstein for ever saying or implying he's been overly negative about the Packers. No wonder Vikings fans are so clueless.

    Of the many things to dispute with this drivel, here is one, "Not only that, but Peterson has delivered this ridiculous surge in a season during which the Vikings' passing attack has been a disaster. ...Adrian has been on a tear like none we've ever seen." Dickerson's QB in 1984 was Jeff Kemp and he completed 50.4% of his passes. Jamal Lewis's QB in 2003 was Kyle Bolger who threw 9 INTs and 7 TDs. OJ's QB in 1973 was Joe Fergeson who completed 44.5% of his passes. A terrible passing attack is EXACTLY what usually happens when an RB goes for over 2000. Wiederer's argument is completely ignorant of NFL history, a point of view (campaign?) devoid of context.
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  6. I would be very surprised if the Packers offensive line got beat up front by what has become a very mediocre defensive front 4 of Minnesota. Everything about the Vikings is mediocre. There is nothing on this team that scares me because they have one player of note and that is Petersen. If they can stop the run game, the game is over. I expect Mathews to have a huge game against Ponder.
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  7. Does anyone else but me think Peterson's "unbelievable" recovery is not to be believed?
    What do most athletes say when caught using steroids?
    "I just wanted to recover more quickly."
    ...just sayin'...
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  8. What flavor is Wiederer's Kool-Aide?

    The vyqueens have lost 6 games already and you would think this is the second coming of Bud Grant's purple eaters...who lost all those SB's.

    When the Pack beat the vyqueens a few weeks ago the O line was patchwork, Greg was on the sideline with CMIII & Sam, Grant was working out at home, and Finley was still in his cocoon.

    And the D was just hitting its stride...a D whose footprints are very wide apart today!
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    • Think back to the beginning of the season. Where were the Vikings picked to finish? How about dead last! The fact they are playing the last game of the season with a playoff game on the line is pretty remarkable. This is Mr Wiederer’s second season covering the Vikings. The first was suffering through a 3-13 season. So can you blame him for having a more optimistic tone now that the last game actually means something?
    • Who cares where the media ranks you coming into the season? None of that matters. The fact of the matter is that the Packers were royally beat up on the injury front the first time around with three of their top four run stopping defensive players out of the game and they still won.

      Saying, "if it wasn't for Ponder the Vikings would've won", like a lot of Viking fans have said isn't a real good excuse. The fact of the matter is Ponder sucks and he's playing the most important position on a football team.

      The Milwaukee Bucks might have a deeper and more well rounded roster than the Lakers but one team has Kobe and the other doesn't. The Packers have Rodgers and the Vikings have Ponder. That will always be the difference until the Vikings get a new QB. Superstars win games. The Vikings have no chance at making noise during a playoff run with Ponder at the helm because they don't have an all-time defense.
    • they don;t even need a qb with adrian peterson doing all the woprk.
  9. I believe it was Mel who speculated that Peterson must have had his surgery in Germany due to his amazing recovery. Actually it was that other pioneer in medical advancement, Alabama.
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  10. "A 2,000-yard season is a foregone conclusion. Now comes the chase of Dickerson."

    Last time I checked Peterson needs 102 yards against a now healthy Packers run defense to achieve 2000.
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