Packers worst nightmare

I never thought I would see the day when Brett Favre gets lustily booed on entering Lambeau field. Brett Favre is sitting pretty at 7-1 and might even make it to the Super Bowl this year, but one has to wonder how did he ever mismanage things to the point that he is the most-hated man in Green Bay. The dude used to own that town and state, but now they have to deploy additional security for his games at Lambeau. I visited Green Bay couple of years back and I wrote about Favre and Green Bay (http://goodcynicsports.blogspot.com/2007/09/green-bay-rocks.html). I feel weird quoting myself, but in that note, I said "The other striking part of the trip to me was how Brett Favre absolutely owns Wisconsin". Boy, how quickly things have changed. Today, the Packers wanted to beat Favre and the Vikings badly. But their worst nightmares came true. Favre threw for 4 TDs and played a great game. He has now thrown for 500+ yards and 7 TDs in the 2 games against Green Bay, both wins. He clearly gets up for these games and I can see how the Packers hate his guts now after these 2 losses. He is just being a massive pain in the butt for them. Aaron Rodgers probably wanted to win these games badly too, but he fell short again. The Vikings are clearly better than the Packers in most phases of the game, but not by much. I feel like the Pack could have won one of these games if A-Rod had taken some more risks and didn't hang onto the ball a little too long. That boy needs to roll the dice a little more. The objective of the sport is to win and not to throw 0 interceptions. In any case, the circus is over, but the Packer fans are even more pissed now. It is what it is I guess.

Speaking of interceptions, look at Kurt Warner - 5 ints and one fumble. Instead of bating Jake Delhomme, Warner became Jake Delhomme today! Cardinal's inconsistency is amazing and for the most part, it just seem to mirror Warner's inconsistency. If he is in rhythm and is given time to throw, he is one of the best in the league. But every now and then the bad Warner shows up and he can clearly compete for the worst in the league. After beating the Giants at NY last week, they lost to the lowly Panthers at home. The Panthers have pretty much handcuffed Delhomme and I think the coach has a heart-attack every time he steps back to throw the ball, but they didn't even have to pass today. They ran all over the cards. It's good the cards play in such a bad division. They will probably win the division with a 9-7 record just like last year. The second best team in their division - Niners, went in to Indy and almost pulled off an upset. But they fell short because the coaching staff didn't trust the passing game enough. Alex Smith drove them down for a TD just before half-time in a 2-minute drive. But it felt like the coaches wouldn't unleash him the rest of the way. They should have because the defense had bothered Peyton Manning enough to keep in check. Its amazing I am saying this because Peyton had 347 yards passing. He is one of those greats like LeBron or Kobe. We often say Kobe had a bad game, but you look at the box-score and you'll see 30 points and 6 boards. Same deal with Peyton. He looked a little off, didn't finish many drives and didn't even throw a TD, but he still had 347 yards. The Niners lost a golden opportunity to make a statement today. Indy is still undefeated. Denver lost today to Baltimore to drop out of the undefeated status and the Saints play tomorrow. At the other end of the spectrum, Rams won today after a loooong time and so did Tennessee.

Another frustrating game in the World Series. The Phillies fought hard and played catchup all night. They finally tied the game in the bottom of the eighth, only to give up 3 more runs in the top of the ninth. Brad Lidge looked awesome to start the ninth, but the Yankees mounted an attack after 2 outs. A-Rod drove in the winning run and Posada added 2 more to finish off the Phillies. They are now done and it doesn't really matter what Cliff Lee does tomorrow. The guy to blame to me is Cole Hamels, who really let them down yesterday. Spotted an early 3-0 lead, if only Hamels was even half as effective as the ace he was last year, the Phillies would have won yesterday. They played a great game today, but the Yankees came through in the ninth. Chase Utley hit one more HR against C.C.Sabathia. Thats now becoming a serious "ownage". But the series is pretty much over and the Yankees will win. On the bright side for the folks in Philly, the Eagles crushed the Giants in the morning as Eli and the boys have lost 3 straight. DeSean Jackson - the pride of Cal is awesome and this Eagles team is officially dangerous. No wonder they have turned it around. You lose to the Raiders, you get a serious wake-up call. Speaking of Cal, they beat ASU on Saturday. Devils lost a close one and was frustrating to watch the final few minutes. The Pac-10 now is firmly in the hands of the Oregon ducks. They crushed USC yesterday and the Ducks have recovered from their season opening loss at Boise State. If you really think about it, Boise is no mediocre mid-major. It's a legit top ranked team and the same can now be said of Oregon. Lets see how high they can get with their ranking.