This is just to congratulate the Packers on clinching the NFC’s number one seed the second straight year with a 37-10 win over the Vikings. Thanks to COVID finally catching up to the unvaccinated Kirk Cousins, the Vikings looked pathetic as the Packers easily had their most dominant game of the season, and the defense didn’t even have to save itself after giving up big plays by having to force even one turnover. By the time the Packers took a 20-0 lead, the Viking defense played as if they were mailing it in for the season.
So what are the Packers going to do next week against the Lions? I remember what happened the last time Aaron Rodgers took the final week off after the top seed was clinched early: the 2011 season when the Packers had their team best 15-1 record. Three weeks later Rodgers seemed unprepared to play a Giants team that had previously shocked the unbeaten Patriots in the Super Bowl a few years earlier. The 37-20 loss in the first round of the playoffs reminded me of the Mike Tyson-Buster Douglas fight, where everyone assumed that Tyson would win easily, but once Douglas landed that big punch, Tyson fought dazed the rest of fight before being knocked out.
Rodgers probably should play at least one quarter next week; as we recall when Rodger wasn’t prepared to play against the Saints, and when he missed a game because of Covid, threw no TDs and an interception against a Seahawks team playing with a quarterback with a broken finger and only leading 3-0 heading into the fourth quarter, and then lost the next week against the Vikings, taking too much "time off" doesn't help prepare for the next game. Packer fans have seen enough disappointment in playoff time to know that they can’t take anything for granted with this team.
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