What a great football Sunday!
The Packers beat the Browns, 31-3.
It’s not often an NFL defense allows only three total points in back-to-back games.
The Green Bay Packers have to go back 43 years, to 1966 and the heart of the Vince Lombardi era, for the last time they gave up so few points in back to back games. So their 31-3 blasting of the Cleveland Browns on Sunday at Cleveland Browns Stadium a week after shutting out the Detroit Lions has to count for something.
On the other hand, they accomplished it against two of the NFL’s worst and most offensively challenged teams.
...But that doesn’t stop the world from looking much better to the 4-2 Packers than a few weeks ago. They at least can feel good about how they’re playing heading into their rematch with the Minnesota Vikings (6-1) knowing that a win at Lambeau Field this week ties the two in the loss column for first place in the NFC North Division.
The Packers should have won decisively the last two weeks and they did.
The world is looking much better to the Packers, now 4-2.
As for the Vikings, things didn't look too good yesterday.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Brett Favre, Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings were anything but perfect.
The Vikings couldn't gain a half-yard when it might have turned the game, then watched the Steelers' big-play defense end their unbeaten season with two long touchdown returns in the final 6 1/2 minutes.
LaMarr Woodley's 77-yard fumble return and Keyaron Fox's 82-yard interception return on turnovers by Favre allowed the Steelers to turn back Minnesota's repeated comeback attempts, and the Steelers rode three major defensive stands to an important 27-17 victory Sunday.
..."There were a lot of what ifs, a lot of reasons we didn't win," Favre said. "The red zone was one of them. They're physical, and they were as good as we thought they'd be. ... When I came here and looked at our schedule (and saw the Steelers game), I went, `Oh-h-h.' "
With Favre hitting Peterson on a 29-yard pass play, the Vikings drove to the Steelers 18 with just over a minute remaining, and their biggest victory of an improbably good season awaited.
But Fox intercepted Favre's pass intended for Chester Taylor and returned it almost the length of the field, with nearly every Viking except Favre in pursuit. Favre had been intercepted only twice previously.
The last pass Favre threw at Lambeau was an interception. It was a heartbreaking end to an almost Super Bowl season.
When Favre returns to Lambeau on Sunday as a Viking, it won't be painful when he fumbles and throws interceptions.
It will be nice.
Video of Favre screwing up to secure the Vikings' loss to the Steelers.
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