My thoughts from the game:
Lacy made a lot out of nothing. His stats look pretty good considering all the times he was met in the backfield. I wonder how bruised he is after a game like yesterday's. The Vikings defenders were putting some good hits on him every run, and it seemed like every run it took 2-4 of those hits before he was down.
Starks looked good. Maybe Lacy is slower than I think and I noticed because of the contrast, but Starks looked really fast out there.
Patterson is going to be a problem. On that opening kickoff he looked like somebody took a regular football player, scaled him to 120%, and kept his speed. Not sure why the MN offense isn't designed around him, but then again I am not a football mind and don't follow the Vikings too closely.
Rodgers and the receivers looked good. Not taking anything away from Rodgers, but the WRs were making some great "snap" catches.
Did it seem to anybody else that Rodgers was trying to audition for rushing QB of the year? SLIDE!
The defense seemed to play ok.
Am I giving Ponder too much credit if I say it looked like he was targeting Tramon Williams?
Credit to Tramon Williams for sticking his nose in their one on one against Peterson for the tackle (slight redemption for past whiffs). That play is a good example of how misguided the legal/illegal helmet hits are. Peterson makes defenders pay by popping them with his helmet (not a burn on him, but on the NFL rules).
Peterson looked like his old self out there.
Franklin nearly had a huge error on a kick return. Seems like a rookie mistake, obviously didn't go in with a plan and was doing his thinking as the play was in action.
Jeremy Ross played well for the Lions yesterday.
Viking fan coworkers (I live in MN) seem to be in awe of Hawk.
Our TE (embarassed I can't remember his name, and too lazy to look it up) did relatively well in that he didn't have terrible drops.