[TMS] The Tuesday Take - Farvalicious
The first half of the NFL’s 2007 season ended with a bang on Monday, just before midnight, with Brett Favre adding another chapter to his storybook career. Having just watched an heir apparent, the Denver Broncos’ second-year quarterback Jay Cutler, lead his team to a game-tying field goal in the closing seconds of regulation, the 38-year old Packer QB heaved the first play of overtime some 55 yards down the sideline into the outstretched arms of receiver Greg Jennings, who raced the remaining 81 feet to paydirt and victory for Green Bay.
It was said many times and shown in many a montage that Number 4 gets up for Monday night. I remember the 99-yarder to Robert Brooks, the circus catch that Antonio Freeman made against the Vikings and the triumphant performance against the Raiders the day after his father passed. This, too, will be etched in my mind, as another great performance in a legendary career. More importantly, the win keeps the Packers tied for the NFC division lead with the Dallas Cowboys. Those two teams will clash in Texas in one month.
For Denver, it will likely be chalked up as another learning experience for a team that is clearly a year away. With San Diego now playing like the division favorite they were expected to be, the Broncos need to get better on defense if they can and get some chemistry going with a very young offense that should have been able to win this thing in regulation. In a matchup of the worst run offense and worst run defense, Green Bay’s Ryan Grant, an undrafted player out of Notre Dame who spent last season on the Giants’ practice squad, gashed the Denver D for 106 yards, the first Packer back to achieve the century mark this season. In the end though, the story of the game would be two long touchdowns over the Broncos’ vaunted 1-2 punch of Champ Bailey and Dre’ Bly and the old gunslinger who continues to prove that he’s still got it.
Read the rest of my thoughts about Week 8 at tommcdonaldshow.blogspot.com...
It was said many times and shown in many a montage that Number 4 gets up for Monday night. I remember the 99-yarder to Robert Brooks, the circus catch that Antonio Freeman made against the Vikings and the triumphant performance against the Raiders the day after his father passed. This, too, will be etched in my mind, as another great performance in a legendary career. More importantly, the win keeps the Packers tied for the NFC division lead with the Dallas Cowboys. Those two teams will clash in Texas in one month.
For Denver, it will likely be chalked up as another learning experience for a team that is clearly a year away. With San Diego now playing like the division favorite they were expected to be, the Broncos need to get better on defense if they can and get some chemistry going with a very young offense that should have been able to win this thing in regulation. In a matchup of the worst run offense and worst run defense, Green Bay’s Ryan Grant, an undrafted player out of Notre Dame who spent last season on the Giants’ practice squad, gashed the Denver D for 106 yards, the first Packer back to achieve the century mark this season. In the end though, the story of the game would be two long touchdowns over the Broncos’ vaunted 1-2 punch of Champ Bailey and Dre’ Bly and the old gunslinger who continues to prove that he’s still got it.
Read the rest of my thoughts about Week 8 at tommcdonaldshow.blogspot.com...