PACKing it in

With two games left, the season is over for the Green Bay Packers.

While I wasn't expecting last season's 13-3 record, and NFC title game, likewise I wasn't ready for the second losing season of the young millennium.

I'm beginning to wonder if the Detroit Lions will be able to claim their only win of the season against us.

In 2005 you could blame the 4-12 record on the incredible amount of injured players, this season it's the incredible injured feelings of Brett Favre.

Moving forward, this season was supposed to be about the Defense, Special Teams and then the Offense...

"...But the football team has moved forward with the emphasis on defense, because that's what I believe in, and that's what the philosophy as we move forward will be. Defense will be our starting point. That will be the common thread that runs through the football team. Now this is nothing new, as far as our approach, but we've always had the veteran quarterback there, so I look for our defense to do bigger things, the individuals on that defense to step forward. And that carries over right into the special teams". --Packer Head Coach Mike McCarthy on July 26, 2008.

The Packer defense is currently rated 25th overall (out of 32 teams), 26th against the run and 13th against the pass.

The New York Bretts...er, Jets have proven to be a better team with Favre (9-5 so far) than without him (4-12 last season) and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Sing it Don Meredith...

Turn out the lights
The party's over
They say that
All good things must end...

It's time to drown my sorrows with Willie...