just maybe he is laying blame for that game on Sherman?

I would

Funny you should mention the Giants game, because I was just looking at the statistics.

At first the numbers don't look that bad:

Favre: 19/35 (54.3%) for 236 yards (12.4 ypc), 2 TDs and 2 INTs (70.7 RTG).

But those numbers are deceiving.

For one thing, 90 of those yards came on a single play -- a touchdown pass to Donald Driver.

That means that for the rest of the way, Favre was 18/34 (52.9%) for 146 yards (8.1 ypc), 1 TD, and 2 INTs . . .

. . . for an impeccable 49.38 quarterback rating.

The news gets worse.

In the 4th quarter and overtime, Favre was 4/10 (40%) for 32 yards (8.0 ypc), 0 TD, and 2 INTs . . .

. . . an abysmal 9.17 quarterback rating.

People tend to focus on that last interception -- I know I have in the past -- but they completely fail to see how absolutely absent our offensive performance was in the 4th quarter. It was simply inexcusable.

I place the majority of the blame on Mike McCarthy for abandoning the run so early. I know it chafed me the entire game that they were ignoring the run. There is no reason that as the weather worsened that afternoon, they didn't continue to try to grind it out on the ground. To only net 28 rushing yards on 14 attempts (13 by Grant, 1 by Favre -- where the hell was Brandon Jackson?) is an unconscionable, colossal collapse. We only attempted 2 runs the entire 4th quarter, and those two came at the end of the drive that had carried over from the 3rd quarter.

But it cannot be denied that the quarterback had to shoulder a fair share of that blame too. Throwing an interception on the second play of overtime, with 14:13 remaining on the overtime clock, on a run call . . . why?

It still makes me want to spit.

This entire discussion is completely off topic, though.

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To be fair in that Giants game, they owned the matchup between our offensive line and their defensive line.. people point at Harris getting owned in that game... which he did, but no worse than the beating we took up front.

We couldn't run the freaking ball to save our ass and in the bitter cold neither passing game did much other than the lobs into Plax.

Honestly.. between the kicking we took on the offensive line and the inability for Sanders to adjust cost us that game..

Did Brett's heave help.. nope.. but my goodness we got owned by that defense that day.. hence why I have issues to this day with our offensive line staff and players manning it.. absolutely stoned that day.

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Well, 93 that's not exactly big news since NY tore every offensive line a new butt for the last six or seven games of that season. Including kicking Brady's ass all over the field in the SB.

It was their time and nobody was going to stop them.

The weather had a lot to do with the overall effectiveness of our offense that day. We could run about half the pass patterns we normally could have put in there and forget stretching the field. We needed our offense a little more than they did with them being stronger on the D side of the ball.

It's the cards that were dealt but the weather that day gave them the better first five cards out of the shute based on how the two teams were built.

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Check out some of those "lobs in to Plax", there were a few beautiful throws made by Eli, and some great catches by Toomer and Plax. Eli had a better game.

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I agree. Burress was definitely making plays, but Eli was playing at a high level that game by putting the ball where Burress could make a play.


Not trashing Favre, AT ALL, and not forgetting the other people on the offensive, but Eli out played him that game.

Hey, it happens sometimes.