Anyone catch the Brett Favre game last night?! Oh yeah, the Vikings played too.

(Editors Note: The Meena has been our most recurring guest on PosseCasts here, and is a die hard Cleveland Browns fan, of which I have the utmost pity for. With that introduction, I give you his first guest post here at T-Rac’s Posse: his review of last night’s Favreapalooza. ~Rogersworthe)

If you’re like me and you have no real emotional connection these days to either the Minnesota Vikings or the Green Bay Packers then you are just plain old sick of Brett Favre.  Now, you’re probably thinking to yourself, “Good God, not another Brett Favre blog!  Holy hell kid, get a real job.”  Trust me, I understand.  Bashing or praising, anything even mentioning Favre is nauseating.

But seriously.  C’mon, given the chance to share your opinion, would any of you really pass up the chance to make a few Favre jokes?  Or really not mention the stark erection Jon Gruden sported for three hours?  By the way, anyone else catch that moment right after they showed the video clip of Gruden back when he was a receivers coach for Green Bay and he was having a sideline conversation with Favre?  I believe Gruden ended the segment by saying, “I’ll tell you what, I sure do miss him,” and then proceeded to gaze lovingly and erotically back towards the field, towards the love of his life that got away.  I guarantee that will provide Gruden with any mental images he needs to perform sexual relations on, well, whatever it is Jon Gruden has sex with.

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But really, all of the Favre fandom is just so much overkill.  ESPN literally will probably make an ESPNFavre.com just because they think that since it’s a good idea, others will think so too, like Peter King.  I mean it really has gotten to the point of absurdity.

Gruden also dropped this gem sometime in the second half; “You gotta be impressed he moved the ball from the 1 to the 40.”  Really?  Really Jon?  Do I really have to be impressed that a quarterback moved the ball 40 damn yards?!?  Seriously?!?  Are you smoking crack?  But I guess you’re right Jon, more importantly than any pass he threw, was the fact that Favre was able to move the ball 40 freaking yards.

Ok, so maybe that was more of a Jon Gruden bash than a Favre bash.  Either way, it still felt good to get that off my chest.

Anyway, lost in all of this Favre loving and television muting is the fact that the Minnesota Vikings are a damn good football team.  Granted, Adrian Peterson didn’t have a great night, but the Vikings still ran the ball 30 times, Peterson having 25 of those carries.  By comparison, Ryan Grant had only 11 carries and the Packers as a team only had 17.  Now, any moderately attentive football fan knows that when you don’t run the ball the defense can just pin their ears back and attack the quarterback.  I don’t think the Packers have a terrible running attack, it just poses no threat whatsoever, which is what led to the Vikings having 8 sacks and 9 QB hits.  That means they hit Aaron Rodgers 17 times.  Holy crap.  The Packers only ran 62 total plays.  That means 27% of the time the Packers were running a play, Rodgers was knocked to the ground.  That’s insane.  By comparison the Packers had 0 sacks and only 1 QB hit.  Are you f***ing kidding me?

This leads me to my next point regarding the offensive lines of both teams.  First of all, the Packers o-line isn’t very good and they have injuries along the front five.  In contrast, the Vikings line basically was a giant wall of purple jerseys.  The proof is in the numbers.

The result was Favre had all day to throw.  Apparently he was actually touched once by a defender, and sadly it was a landmark achievement for the Packer D.  But really, what QB wouldn’t succeed with that running game and that offensive line?  (Oh wait, he exists.  His name is Tarvaris Jackson.)

By the way, the Vikings also have one of the nastiest defensive lines in the NFL and a stout defense in general, while the Pack have injuries in the secondary and have recently switched their defense from a 4-3 to a 3-4.  I guess it also helps that the Vikings have had the #1 rush defense the past 3 years while the Packers were one of the worst defenses in all of football last season.

This leads me to my final point and it hearkens back to the last podcast I did with Rogersworthe, in which I stated that with a great team built around them, a decent or fairly good QB could succeed and look pretty spectacular at times.  Look at Mark Sanchez and the Jets.  That team is really good.  I wonder what would happen if we switched Sanchez with Tarvaris Jackson.  The same situation happened last year in Baltimore and Tennessee.  It can even win a Super Bowl as it did in 2000 when Trent Dilfer led the Ravens to a championship.

So taking all of this into consideration, does Favre really have to do a whole lot?  The obvious answer is no, but ESPN will force-feed you a different answer.  My advice? Just keep doing what you’re doing when watching Minnesota this year and keep muting the TV and pay attention to what you’re seeing on the field:  a damn good football team and legitimate contender for a championship.  With a sold o-line, a nasty front-7 on defense, and a game-breaking running game, the Vikings are for real.

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