Hrm that does sound like something I’m planning on doing but I’m hoping the team won’t. Personally, I can’t say I was one of the people hoping for Favre to come to the team this year. I mean that’s a lot of bad blood to get rid of… But now that he’s here (and kicking butt) I pretty much have to jump on the band wagon. Nice thing is none of the drama that was worried about ever happened so most of what I thought would have gone wrong didn’t.

We’ve been blessedly lucky in the injuries department. Other than Winfield being out for over a month we’ve not lost any of out starters to injury for any length of time. I don’t know if it’s their cnoditioning, or what but I hope they keep it up.

I think that the Cardinals will be the first team to try and beat us by containing Favre. I think this is what Childress was looking for. A time when people finally decide that they have to risk letting AP go. Now I’m not to worried about Favres arm as he’s had time to rest the last two games during the fourth quarter. Plus have you seen him play?

last year I would say that if you have a good specail teams then you’ll probably score at least two points off of it during the game. This year, out special teams have done a 180, and I don’t see any teams putting points on us through it.

Like I said before if Warner playes this could be a close game with lots of offense going both ways. I don’t thikn the field will be to much of a factor it is really nice (Been there once when I lived in Pheonix) and while we are apretty fast team I don’t think it will be to bad. Plus while we’re down there maybe Favre will look for a place to retire. Everyone else from MN does..

Usually our secondary is a glaring weakness, but I think they are scheming the front four out of run defense being their primary goal and using them to put more pressure on the QB. this is allowing our secondary to reap some benifits. As well since we rush with just the front four (on most downs) it allows our line backers to cover the insides. I always worry about other teams tightends, but this year we’ve been very good about shutting down the opposing teams big playmaker receiver. However, I’m not sure we’ve gone up against someone of Fitz’s caliber either. Would be nice if Winfield would get back out there. Never a good thing when your missing a pro-bowl corner from your line up.

(and I can’t remember which game that was), certain members of the secondary were pretty awful, but most of that seems to have been cleared up.

As others have said, the biggest thing we have going is that our front four can usually pressure the QB without blitzing; that both puts more guys in coverage, and still doesn’t give the opponents QB all day to find a defender. It seemed like we were blitzing more early in the year, but it was evident that we were less successful when we blitzed, and so it seems they’ve backed off of that to a great extent.

Is the bomb and Kevin is staunch. Jared Allen is not a very good run blocker. Without the Williams we would be facing a lot of teams eager to run on us. I know that Pat has another year on his contract after that I would think the team would let him retire as he would be 35. Kevin is a bit younger so we have a fewmore good years to look forward from him. In the game this week you’ll see Jamey Kennedy sub in for Pat quite on passing downs as we try to keep Pat up and running for the entire game.

As for a prima dona I don’t think anyone on our D fits that bill, hell JA will be out deer hunting in a high hide after the game I’m sure… There seems to be a lot of cohesion on this team. We saw it on the defense last year and now we’re starting to see it on the offense as well.

Answering one of the questions – Harvin has migraines, which limit him in practice with some frequency and that has him popping up on the injury report almost every week.

Rice looks a little bit like Larry Fitzgerald (if you squint – from a distance) and his style reminds me a little more of him as well; he is not near that level yet, but then who is. He will go and get the ball and Favre seems to be trusting him to do that more and more every game.

One, I think the arm injury last year and his bad performance after it really had an effect on him. He really realized that he’s older, couldn’t do everything he once did, etc. etc. Of course that’s just speculation, but I think there’s some truth to it. Also, his throwing actually looks better than it has in years. Interesting that Elway won two Superbowls after he tore loose the same biceps tendon. Maybe they ought to just surgically remove that particular tendon from every QB on day one.

Second thing is that he obviously came in here with a mindset of taking care of the ball. The first two or three games of the season, there were nothing but short passes, he hardly ever moved out of the pocket and didn’t even move around much in the pocket. It appeared that he was just being super cautious and if he didn’t have a really open receiver he would just stand there and take a sack. The passing game has opened up a lot since then, and he’s become a lot more mobile, but I think the mindset is still there. He has decided that not turning the ball over is a big priority.

I also suspect that his relationship with his coaches, both of whom he has known for a while, has something to do with it. He’s listening to them and I’m sure they are preaching the same thing (as any coach would).