posted under: Adrian Peterson, Packers, Pre-game, Vikings
Purple Jesus: The Second Helping
Just a week after setting the NFL single game rushing record, Adrian Peterson will be playing his first game at (cue John Facenda) historic Lambeau Field. The 72,000 Green & Gold fans should be in full throat Sunday afternoon, waving their G-Force towels in the air; I hope it scares the Purple Bejebus right out of him.
Seriously though, the Vikings are coming to Green Bay this weekend and, seriously, their starting quarterback is going to be either Brooks Bollinger, Kelly Holcomb or Koy Detmer. The Packers might as well just put 10 — heck make it 11 — men in the box, that should slow Peterson down to 150 yards on the day.
Actually, I don’t really care how many yards he rushes for, as long as none of them are in the end zone. The Green Bay defense doesn’t have to stop him cold, they just can’t let him get the home run. If that happens, it’s going to be a long, Ryan Longwell-filled day for the Riders of the Purple Sage. Brandon at Acme Packing Company has the right idea, I think: Line up serial penalty flag abuser Atari Bigby on the line and let him tee off on Peterson all day.
As for the Packer offense, look for more of the same spread-em-out quick-pass attack because there’s probably little hope Ryan Grant or Brandon Jackson is going to get past those tackles in the middle. In the first game at the Humpty Dome, Favre threw for 344 yards so he should be able to cut up that defense pretty well once again. I’m looking for Grant to touch the ball about 10 times at most.
It won’t come easy — none of them have yet — but the Packers should get the win this weekend and stay a step ahead of the Lions.
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November 9th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
If I were the Packers D-Coordinator (which I do a heck of a job in Madden!) I’d put 9 in the box all day against the Vikes. Maybe even have one of them be a 4th linebacker. Blitz the gaps on every down so Peterson doesn’t have a chance to make moves on you or get going full speed. Leave the secondary man-to-man all day as no combination of any Minny QB and WR will ever hurt you deep.
What’s sad is, I ready a blurb in the Journal-Sentinel today saying there are still some 6,700 tickets available for the Vikings/Raiders game coming up. I realize it’s not a great matchup, but to have nearly 10% of your tickets unsold for any NFL game is a failure, especially when you’re featuring possibly the most exciting back since Barry Sanders and the #1 pick in the draft this year might even play.