Benny Blue Boy;3181388 said:
Whatever. Favre was playing dink and dunk about the first 8 weeks of the season and all was just wonderful. He threw for over 300 yards tonight on I believe 40 attempts. If Brett Favre would have throw 40 passes every game this season we are looking at a 9-7 or so team if you ask me. They got lucky playing the packers early cause the packers would smoke them right now. If anything it seems to me they've been throwing more as of late, I don't get your point at all. *****, I know they had to play catch up but they were smoking teams with Favre playing game manager if you looked it up in the dictionary. And now they're not with him airing it out more. So what gives?
Yeah that's all nice and rosey but earlier in the year their O-Line could block and AP could give them loads of ground game in order to do that. As of late Peterson hasn't done a whole lot on the ground. He finally got it going a bit last night but even then it wasn't as crisp as you'd like.
It's not Favre's fault that the defenses have decided to load up the box lately and just take AP totally out of games. Is he just supposed to run the ball for the sake of running it just so fans who aren't watching don't look and say "Oh Favre threw it too much."
casmith07;3181694 said:
Yeah, if they go back to dink-and-dunk with heavy doses of Adrian Peterson they'll win more.
Problem is Favre is becoming Favre. A few weeks later than I predicted, but it's happening!
Actually the piss poor play of the O-Line in the run game, coupled with defenses loading up to stop AP and the fact that all the sudden the Vikings defense couldn't stop my local high school team from scoring has a lot more to do with Favre having to throw a lot more lately and not being able to just go around dinking and dunking.
If people were paying attention last night, and apparently some weren't, they dinked and dunked last night, while trying to establish the run game, in the first half and were getting soundly beaten to the tune of 16-0 by trying to force the game in that direction.
At the half Favre was a blistering 5-9 for 37 yards and the Vikings had no points and were going nowhere.
Second half they started thowing it more, opening up the running game more that way, and they scored 30 points and overcame a 17 point deficit.
So I'm not really sure how anyone who was watching the game last night can come to the conclusion that it's Favre's fault for having to throw more with 8-9 in the box as of late.
