Credit Where Credit's Due - Still, Advantage Rodgers

Favre gets credit for one helluva throw, Lewis gets credit for one helluva catch and Dre Bly gets credit for dropping the pick-6 we would have been talking about the series before when Favre went ... well, Favre and put one right in the DB's mitts that would have sealed the deal the other way, and The Legend would have been having a much much different press conference.

Alas, this is Brett Favre and next Monday's game is set up to be the most watched Monday Nighter in the franchise's history.

I give Rodgers the week, because he was better statistically speaking. No matter what Favre's fans say, his rating was still an abyssmal 78 and change, he threw his first pick of the season, and if not for Bly dropping a sure TD the other way, most of those yards are moot. The Legend threw for something like 150 yards in the last few series of the 4th quarter alone. Both QBs got the win in games they were picked to win, but Rodgers did more with his feet (38 yards rushing and a TD) and finished with a very respectable 126.9 QB rating.

I will say this, though, if the Packers don't find a way to miraculously turn that O line around and start running the ball and protecting Rodgers, the Packers lose on Monday night by two TDs. Pre-season I picked this game as a loss for the Packers and I'm sticking with that prediction. But you never know. Maybe the emotional high from the 49er win gives the Vikings false belief in themselves as a Super Bowl contender.

Which they are not, Purple Jesus or no Purple Jesus.

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