No silver linings for the Packer fans at Acme Packing Company. They watched their team get beat up by their hated rival. It doesn’t feel good.
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Every once in a while, there comes along a matchup that is almost too easy to exploit. Your opponent has a shaky offensive line made shakier by injuries to their best pass protector? Use your already superb pass rush to get after the quarterback. The other team’s starting safety is out, leaving inexperienced and mistake-prone backups in his place? Take a shot down the field when you recognize a miscommunication. Your rival’s starting MLB is coming off an ACL injury and is still regaining his mobility? Wait til he’s matched up with a TE or WR, and then isolate him.
These mismatches and countless more were all present in Monday night’s 30-23 shellacking in the Metrodome. I don’t care if you’re rolling with Brett Favre, Adrian Peterson, and Jared Allen or JaMarcus Russell, Larry Johnson, and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (post-injury); if you have mismatches and you manage to exploit them, you’re going to succeed. And the Vikings succeeded while the Packers did not.
Like any good supporter, they also noted the odd differentiation between penalties called (7 for 57 yards for Green Bay compared to 2 for 10 for Minnesota) while also noting a bevy of non-calls that seemed to go the Vikings way.
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