Monday Night Massacre: Saints 51, Packers 29
NFL November 25th. 2008, 10:00am
Allow us to add the Packers to the list of teams nobody understands. Here’s five weeks of Jekyll and Hyde:
* Handily hammer Indy, 34-14
* Lose a game it should have won at Tennessee, 19-16 in OT
* Can muster no offense in Minnesota, but still only lose 28-27
* Pound the Bears convincingly, 37-3
* Rodgers has his second worst game of the season, defense carved up in 51-29 loss in New Orleans
Which Green Bay team will show up at home against Carolina in a must-win game next week? The one that mysteriously lost to Atlanta? Or the one that picked off Peyton Manning twice and held him to 50 percent passing?
If you want to assume that Minnesota gets payback against Chicago and Green Bay loses to Carolina, the Pack will be two games back of the division leaders. There’s no shot at the Wild Card, so perish that thought.
As for 6-5 New Orleans, consider this: the Saints are 5-1 at home, and have two more at the Superdome, one against Atlanta and one against Carolina. Win both of those and the Saints are 8-5. One of the three road games is against Detroit. So that’s nine wins. Will 10 do the trick in a division that has four good teams, but not a strong one? For 10 wins, the Saints would need to win at Tampa or Chicago. They lost both of those road games last season. It seems like a longshot.
Right now, our guess at the NFC Playoffs:
New York Giants
Tampa Bay Bucs
Arizona Cards
Minnesota Vikings
Dallas Cowboys
Washington/Carolina (both will end up 10-6, who’d win the tiebreaker?)
24 Responses to “Monday Night Massacre: Saints 51, Packers 29”
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November 25th, 2008 at 10:02 am
If the Vikings lose their defensive tackles for the rest of the season you can write them off (that and they’re the Vikings, they always blow it)
No clue what happened to my beloved Packers yesterday…this defense isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination but that was an embarrassment
Sadly there’s still one more MNF game to go which will give Kornheiser even more opportunities to blather on about the Favre/Rodgers thing
November 25th, 2008 at 10:03 am
hey…you stole my pic.
/which i stole from ESPN…
November 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
If Green Bay loses to Carolina, they’ll be two back regardless of who wins the Minn/Chi game.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Favre.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Frauds!!!
November 25th, 2008 at 10:08 am
TBL — Washington would likely win the tiebreaker. They are 6-3 in conference. New Orleans is 3-4.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:17 am
looked like the lions defense out there.
i’m starting to believe the nfc north is the fraud division of the nfl, not the nfc west.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:18 am
@TBL – where’s my payout? I’m fairly certain that one ten minute period in the 2nd quarter got me the over.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Neither are frauds. They are both just shitty. AFC West is right there with them.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:23 am
while were talking about the NFC North: this weekend i went to the Notre Dame/Cuse game in South Bend and i had to fly through detroit to get there. While flying back on Sunday and walking through the airport looking for games on TV, not ONE, not a SINGLE TV in the entire airport had the lions game on. I understand that 0-11 is one thing, but its THEIR city and not ONE TV had their game on I was amazed…I also bought a sweet Lions 75th year anniversary hat at one of the gift shops, end of story.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am
was it blacked out?
November 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Rodgers.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I can’t imagine the lions don’t sell out…its not like were talking about a city like Miami here where there are things to do and nobody cares about their team…what else is there to do in Detroit?
November 25th, 2008 at 10:29 am
have your job terminated?
/too
soonreal?November 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
The Lions were blacked out. I read it somewhere yesterday. I think it was Clay on Deadspin. He was in Detroit for some reason.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am
The last two home games have been blacked out locally (100 mile radius). Thanksgiving game has until this afternoon to sell out or it will be blacked out as well.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Ha, so you think lions fans would choose to black out thursday if they could…and by black out i mean drink excessively
November 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I miss the days when the Cardinals didn’t sell out. Use to always get the #1 national game.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I understand its the only game on thus making it the national game but can that can still get blacked out?
November 25th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Why so quick to write off the Bears? After the Vikings game they get 3 of 4 at home with the one road game being the Texans?
November 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
you know, i watched that bucs-lions game and i had no earthly concept the lions were that brutal. yeah, i knew they were winless but not until i actually watched a full game did i realize just how miserable of a team that is.
i honestly think central michigan could give them a game. i couldn’t believe how pathetic they were. easily the worst nfl team i’ve ever seen.
hasn’t marinelli lost something like 20 straight games? how has he kept his job???
November 25th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I needed last night’s game to remind myself that the Saints can be a good team. Still too reliant on the pass, but when it’s working, I can’t say stop doing it. The D stepped up big time. The Pack’s D apparently got lost somewhere in Bourbon Street.
And it’s time for Kornheiser to go. That’s 2 games the Saints have been on MNF where the main topic of discussion has been….BRETT FAVRE. How the hell?! I get he can’t talk about Reggie Bush since he’s not on the field and he sure as hell can’t talk about anyone else since he doesn’t know them. But Favre?! Holy hell!
November 25th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Brees is going to throw for 600 yards on the Bears.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
its gonna be in chi-town, diesel. meaning cold and windy. Saints passing game will struggle. And Forte is a beast, I just don’t see them winning that game. They should beat Tampa, though. I’m thinking 9-7 with losses to carolina and da Bears.