“Revenge is a dish best served cold,” or so the saying goes, and the Green Bay Packers got their revenge against the Minnesota Vikings by winning their NFC Wild Card game 24-10 a week after the Vikings beat the Packers 37-34 which cost Green Bay a first round bye. The Packers spotted the Vikings an […]
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Keys to the Game: Vikings at Packers Wild Card Playoff Edition
Well here we are. The playoffs. I have been waiting for this game since I watched a hapless Green Bay Packers team get trounced at home in the Divisional round by the Giants last January. It was a presumptuous wish, as many teams don’t appear in the playoffs in back-to-back seasons but somehow I knew […]
Packers Stock Report: Playoff Time Edition
For the last three years, I’ve always been confident whenever the Packers play because they had the best player on the field. No matter who the Packers were playing, what the score was, or how slow the Packers started, I always felt good because I knew that Aaron Rodgers played for Green Bay and would […]
Vikings 37, Packers 34: Game Balls and Lame Calls
The Mayans may have been wrong on the world as a whole, but the Green Bay Packers finally lost an NFC North game. After winning twelve straight games against the NFC North, the Packers lost 37-34 to the Minnesota Vikings in an instant classic to wrap up the 2012 regular season. Thanks to the victory […]
If the Packers Want to Stop Peterson, Defense Needs to Be Tougher
People usually think of toughness as some intangible trait, something that can’t be measured by an actual set of skills or statistics. People also use the word toughness as an adjective, a cliche to just throw out there when they really can’t explain why their favorite team can’t make a tackle, catch a pass or […]