It's Vikings Week

Boris posted:

Whenever the Packers have been in this position they always seem to fuck it up.

Remember week #17 vs. Jets? Playing for a bye in 2004, got crushed in NY. Lost to Vikings in WC round of playoffs. 

Early 90's - Blow the last game of season vs. Detroit then have to go back to Detroit & Favre saves the day to Sterling with under a minute in the 4th Quarter playoff game. 

It seems like when I go back through history the Packers always blow these opportunities when they are playing for a bye but have already clinched a playoff berth.

 

So what you are saying is we need Favre back because he's due to win one of these games? 

I'm with smartypants boris on this one.  I also seem to recall there being a couple chances in the 80's where they had a shot at a wild card or in 89 a shot at the division and lost to a lesser opponent in the final week or couple weeks of the season.  Those teams are as unrelated as the Baltimore colts so F it.

I would like to see AR’s passes go to Davante, Lazard, Jones, Williams, and Tonyan. I’m tired of seeing passes wasted by Geronimo, MVS and Jimmy G.   As Leonardo DiCaprio said in “Catch Me If You Can,” DO YOU CONCUR?

Make Tyler Ervin the James Stark of 2019.

Every win is just so much more delicious.

DH13 posted:

So we're hard to gameplan against because we do nothing really well?  That's a great one liner, spoken in a Steven Wright voice.

Or, we don't do what we do.

We don't do what we do very well?

Henry posted:

Make Tyler Ervin the James Stark of 2019.

Every win is just so much more delicious.

I'll settle for 2019 Desmond Howard.

Lets get this win!!!   

Henry posted:

Make Tyler Ervin the James Stark of 2019.

Every win is just so much more delicious.

I've said it before. we've been sandbagging. It is time....no more sandbagging. sweep the queens...sweep the Lions..win the North!!!

Dave in GA posted:

I've said it before. we've been sandbagging. It is time....no more sandbagging. sweep the queens...sweep the Lions..win the North!!!

What Dave said!!!

Top 10 scoring D.

Top 5 WR.

Top 10 RBWR.

Elite QB.

I had a perverse thought. I would love for the refs to “gift” our team a few calls at critical times. It would blow the tops off the tiny brains of fans of Minnesota. Oh the Humanity!

PackerPatrick posted:

I had a perverse thought. I would love for the refs to “gift” our team a few calls at critical times. It would blow the tops off the tiny brains of fans of Minnesota. Oh the Humanity!

I thought the same thing! It would be great to win, but would be even greater to win with a controversial call that went our way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't even have to be controversial. Just have any call go our way in a close game with less than 5 minutes left. 

Cousins being snubbed from the Pro Bowl in favor of Rodgers is going to give him some fuel for his first Monday night potential win.

NumberThree posted:

Cousins being snubbed from the Pro Bowl in favor of Rodgers is going to give him some fuel for his first Monday night potential win.

Rodgers will be even more motivated when he realizes he's no longer elite after reading this board and all the bandwagon media outlets.

NumberThree posted:

Cousins being snubbed from the Pro Bowl in favor of Rodgers is going to give him some fuel for his first Monday night potential win.

Good luck with that.

PackerHawk posted:

Doesn't even have to be controversial. Just have any call go our way in a close game with less than 5 minutes left. 

I don't want a controversial call.  What is perfect in my world?  Cousins drives them down to inside the Packers 10 yard line.  Cousins throws a pass outside and it is taken back for a pick 6.  I would be on youtube the next morning looking at Vikings fans smashing things after they have their hearts ripped out again.

Ahhh yes a guy can dream.  And a guy also do this  the spermheads!

I want MIN to get all the calls and still lose.

I just want to mention the Vikings are not guaranteed the playoffs yet. What do Vikings do best?? Choke!

If the Rams lose to SF, Vikings are in & basically have nothing to play for on Monday night unless you think the Packers are going to lose to Jeff Driskel or some other scrub from the Lie-Downs when they have Chase Young staring them in the face next April. Sometimes weird shit happens though.....but I digress.

Going to be interesting to see if the Vikings come out strong at start of the game or their usual slow start. 

Vikings blow out Packers? Packers blow out Vikings? Probably neither unless the SF Packers show up.

Will Anthony Barr try to injure Rodgers again?

One streak is going bye-bye. Packers can't win there & Cousins can't win on Monday Night. Who wants it more? We'll find out in 5 days.

Great Summary, Boris. I want Rams to win Saturday night to possibly block the Vikes from the playoffs completely.

Also want the Rams to win to keep the #1 seed chance alive. 

Niners lose 2 in a row? All 3 of their losses are of the last second variety. 

Like I said earlier....sometimes strange shit happens.

While I want to say eff the Vikings and their mother effin fans and leave it at that, it’s not that simple and irresponsible on my part. Those who share my hatred on this fan base have been accurate on their assessments previously posted here. For those of us who have lived in the state and were not born there the fact is, and cannot be argued, that not just their fan base, but the overall born and bred population is the most passive aggressive bunch of people I have ever met. This supersedes football. It translates to everyday life. While the city of Minneapolis itself is diverse, I have never seen such a segregated area then Hennepin County, and I was born and have lived in Milwaukee County. If I see another shopping complex with a Target, Dicks Sporting Goods, Chipotle, and Cub Foods I might not want to fight another day.

Like Boris stated, winning can conceivably keep MN out of the playoffs, pending the Rams game. The Rams beating SF helps us obviously in two ways. It keeps us with SF in the standings and sets MN to miss the post season pending our game and the Bear game. I personally think MN loses to the Bears because recent history has shown they match up horribly with this current Chicago team.
Because the term “signature win” has become commonplace, I’ll use it here as well and say that if Green Bay wins it will far and away supersede any win this season including the two Chicago games, one which set the tone for the season on the road, and the other which was a must win in my mind to win the division. 
In short (or long) please destroy MN. No last second heroics. No controversial ref calls, No “pay back” game. Just beat their ass in all facets of the game and show why we are the better team this year and moving forward. Set that momentum heading into the post season. It will go a long way in defining how we remember this particular team.

I agree that a Prince was the best thing to come out of Minneapolis, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we find out someday that he was actually born in Racine.

Great post! 

The Cowboys take heat for a soft resume, but the Vikings don’t have an over .500 win yet either. Their wins this season

Falcons
Raiders
Giants
Eagles
Lions X2
Skins
Cowboys
Broncos
Chargers

0-3 vs projected playoff teams including the Matt Moore Chiefs

— Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) December 18, 2019

Chongo posted:

The Cowboys take heat for a soft resume, but the Vikings don’t have an over .500 win yet either. Their wins this season

Falcons
Raiders
Giants
Eagles
Lions X2
Skins
Cowboys
Broncos
Chargers

0-3 vs projected playoff teams including the Matt Moore Chiefs

— Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) December 18, 2019

Which means our only significant victory is the Chiefs, and two of our three losses are teams on the above list?

Ubetcha posted:

NumberThree posted:

Cousins being snubbed from the Pro Bowl in favor of Rodgers is going to give him some fuel for his first Monday night potential win.

Rodgers will be even more motivated when he realizes he's no longer elite after reading this board and all the bandwagon media outlets.

That chip will be so big we may never lose again.

TouchdownWhitewaterJesus posted:

Which means our only significant victory is the Chiefs, and two of our three losses are teams on the above list?

Our 

Pack is currently 4-2 on the road. (Y)our Vikings are 4-4. 

I'm going to go out on a limb & say the Pack ends up no worse than 5-3 on the road. 

I don't care who they played 5-3 is damn good on the road. 

Especially for a shitty team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAQysz9dw4

"It's not my fault."  No it never is.

Poetry.

That's some priceless video right there

The Heckler posted:

PackerHawk posted:

Doesn't even have to be controversial. Just have any call go our way in a close game with less than 5 minutes left. 

I don't want a controversial call.  What is perfect in my world?  Cousins drives them down to inside the Packers 10 yard line.  Cousins throws a pass outside and it is taken back for a pick 6.  I would be on youtube the next morning looking at Vikings fans smashing things after they have their hearts ripped out again.

Ahhh yes a guy can dream.  And a guy also do this  the spermheads!

But then you'd have half the board whining about the Packers not being up by 14 points and how the team is a complete failure.

Time for our secret weapon against the Queens...Sternberger.

Tavis Smiley posted:

While I want to say eff the Vikings and their mother effin fans and leave it at that, it’s not that simple and irresponsible on my part. Those who share my hatred on this fan base have been accurate on their assessments previously posted here. For those of us who have lived in the state and were not born there the fact is, and cannot be argued, that not just their fan base, but the overall born and bred population is the most passive aggressive bunch of people I have ever met. This supersedes football. It translates to everyday life. While the city of Minneapolis itself is diverse, I have never seen such a segregated area then Hennepin County, and I was born and have lived in Milwaukee County. If I see another shopping complex with a Target, Dicks Sporting Goods, Chipotle, and Cub Foods I might not want to fight another day.

Every god damn day dealing with this crap.  After being back for a few years now I remember why I moved and will be moving as soon as possible.  I'd take Floriduh crazy over this chicken shit boot licker crap.

Ubetcha posted:

NumberThree posted:

Cousins being snubbed from the Pro Bowl in favor of Rodgers is going to give him some fuel for his first Monday night potential win.

Rodgers will be even more motivated when he realizes he's no longer elite after reading this board and all the bandwagon media outlets.

He’s still elite, he hasn’t performed well as of late, but when you have 1.5 receivers to throw to with any confidence of them catching it, stats start to suffer.