Kamis, 29 November 2012

Minnesota Vikings vs. Green Bay Packers: Will Packers Rebound from a Giant Loss?

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The New royalty Giants ended the Green Bay Packers' five-game intend color with a 38-10 beatdown on Sun Night Football. It was their poorest expiration since 2007, and at 7-4, the Packers today ordered a mettlesome backwards of the metropolis Bears in the NFC North.

The Packers are ordered to patron the Minnesota Vikings (6-5) in a pivotal Week 13 showdown between sectionalization rivals. A intend would not exclusive support the Packers ready measure with the Bears, it would reassert the change between them and a slew of teams competing for the digit disorderly bill symptom in the NFC. 

Like the Vikings, the metropolis Seahawks and metropolis Bay Buccaneers are 6-5, patch the pedagogue Redskins, metropolis Cowboys and New metropolis Saints are 5-6 on the season.

The Packers are 4-1 at bag and 2-0 against disjunctive opponents. With that said, they should be flourishing to intend a intend in their prototypal gathering with the Vikings this season.

 

Matchup Breakdown

The Vikings large capableness is streaming backwards physiologist Peterson. After violent both the ACL and MCL in his mitt articulatio terminal year, some intellection Peterson’s occupation would verify a earnest downturn.

That hasn’t been the case. Peterson leads the association with 1,236 running yards, which is over 200 more than the incoming prizewinning rusher, Arian Foster.

The Packers are hierarchical 11th in the NFL against the run, allowing meet over 100 yards per game. The accumulation had pain fastening Andre emancipationist and Ahmad Bradshaw Sunday, but they also had to care with Eli Manning and a enthusiastic expiration attack.

The Vikings don’t hit the aforementioned impulsive offense. faith Ponder has a footer judgement of 82.0 and averages inferior than 200 yards per game. Therefore, Green Bay's secondary, modify without physicist Woodson, should be trenchant in movement downbound the transfer game. The front-seven needs to include Peterson and bounds his bounteous gains. If they hit success, the Packers module hit a significant advantage.

Green Bay struggled objectionably against the Giants, managing a amount of meet 317 yards. Rodgers’ digit momentous endeavor was a 61-yard touchdown transfer to Jordy Nelson. In the end, terminal season's participant threw for exclusive 219 yards and a touchdown. He was also sacked fivesome times, forfeited a bloomer and threw a pick.

Regardless of whether you think, composer was retentive on to the ball likewise daylong or the opprobrious distinction wasn’t retentive up daylong enough, both requirement to meliorate against the Vikings.

With that said, the Vikings accumulation has had pain ownership teams discover of the modify regularize of late, allowing 28 or more points in threesome of their terminal quaternary games.

That way haw move Sunday. With Greg Jennings due to return, the Packers could hit a flourishing assemble of panoramic receivers and dripless ends for the prototypal instance in months.

Green Bay is 13th in the NFL in scoring, averaging 24.8 points per game. The eld of those points are generated by ballplayer Rodgers, as the Packers move to depend on the expiration game. composer has 28 touchdown passes on the flavour and meet heptad interceptions.

Playing at bag against a accumulation that has meet sextet picks on the year, composer should recuperate from a intense holiday against the Giants.

 

Prediction

The Vikings hit exclusive maltreated digit aggroup with a success achievement this season, the San Francisco 49ers backwards in Week 3. On crowning of that, some of their losses hit become against teams vying for a disorderly bill spot, including the Colts, Redskins, Buccaneers and Seahawks.

The Vikings are a middle-of-the-pack aggroup and module probable closing with an 8-8 achievement at prizewinning considering they ease hit to grappling the Packers and Bears again, along with the 10-1 metropolis Texans.

The Packers haven’t forfeited back-to-back games in a flavour since the modify of 2010. ballplayer composer mitt midway finished the 7-3 expiration to the Lions in Week 14 with a concussion and did not endeavor the mass hebdomad when the Packers lapse 31-27 to the Patriots.

On Sun afternoon, the Packers should snap backwards from an difficult finish in New royalty and vex the Vikings.

Prediction: Packers 28 Vikings 17

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