3.5 games into the season we were on the part of the rollercoaster that slowly but steadily inches higher and higher and higher. Several versions of the ride have it where you can't see the top so as to not know when the drop is coming. From the crest of the 28-point lead over the most loathsome rival that Minnesota has for all of it's professional franchises came the sudden, stomach-jarring drop.
With London and Aaron Rodgers on deck we won't have to wait long to find out if the second half against Green Bay was a solitary misadventure or not. At best it was a warning-shot against getting too fat & happy because they were in the position of success when time expired.
But scraping by against a team that turned the ball over four times and missed two field goals cannot be taken lightly and is only worth the minimum amount of enjoyment. They should have lost. They deserved to lose.
Then again, one of the sports cliches is that great teams win games that they should lose.
Unblemished as their record is, with the three dominant victories to their credit, we don't know if this is a great team. We don't know if they can match and surpass the 2009 squad that should have been the champions.
Thanks to the lucky/fortunate/insert adjective here victory to get them halfway to a playoff berth they and we can continue to ride this wave of the Purple Tsunami toward the elusive goal of the final game. Even if they had lost that would still be true, but victorious melancholy is a peculiar thing.
Onto old London town!
C
An A+ first half combined with a D- second
B+
A single decimal point from being an A- but the finish was too much of a buzz-kill to keep them above it.
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