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I'm not buying this Aaron Rodgers is done for the year ( I will believe it when I see it)  I get the feeling it's not as bad as it's being "reported" by the Packers and it's setting up for the Miraculous healing power of Aaron Rodgers" (actual statement by one of the talking heads on Sunday)  

Vikings to face variety of somewhat flawed QB optionsIf Teddy Bridgewater is cleared to practice and looks like the team's best quarterback, the Vikings will face a torturous decision under radically revamped circumstances.

By turning Aaron Rodgers’ upper body into an unwilling accordion, Anthony Barr might have altered the NFC North the way a bulldozer alters a condemned house.
As of midafternoon Sunday, the convalescing Teddy Bridgewater had a better chance than Rodgers of playing in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium, and for the first time in 25 years, the Vikings found themselves stronger at quarterback than the Green Bay Packers, even amid the Vikings’ typically dramatic uncertainty at the position.
If the Vikings ride to the NFC North Division title behind Case Keenum, Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater or Kyle Sloter — or behind an out-of-work activist or an employed television commentator — Barr will become their stealth MVP, to be rewarded by teammates with surreptitious fist bumps and Bitcoin.
When he broke Rodgers’ collarbone, Barr made Sunday’s 23-10 victory a certainty and a division championship a more likely possibility.
The previous weekend, Rodgers led the Packers to the kind of improbable, last-second victory remindful of his greatness while the Vikings started Bradford, watched him limp like he was wearing a too-loose prosthetic, and won at Chicago behind Keenum.
This Sunday, Bradford couldn’t play, Rodgers suffered what the Packers termed a possible season-ending injury, Keenum won again and Bridgewater prepared for a week in which he might be cleared to return to practice, which would give the Vikings 21 days to decide whether to activate him.
It is typical of the Vikings’ history at the position that suddenly Bridgewater is deemed to have healthier knees than Bradford, a little more than a year after Bridgewater suffered an injury that could have cost him his life or his leg.
It is atypical of this rivalry that the Vikings have three quarterbacks on their roster that are better than the Packers’ default starter, Brett Hundley, who succeeded Sunday in proving that Rodgers is the NFL’s most indispensable player...
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-dispe...451013143/

For the second time in five seasons, the entire state of Wisconsin hinges on a single broken collarbone. One thousand four hundred forty-four days after Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone on Monday Night Football in a 2013 loss to the Bears, the Packers' future Hall of Fame quarterback suffered the same injury to his other clavicle in a brutal loss to the Vikings on Sunday afternoon. The team's official Twitter account suggested Rodgers could miss the remainder of the season, but unless the Packers get lucky over the next couple of months, it might not matter.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl...765358001/

Couldn't happen to a better fan base...

Fuck the packers
Fuck their fans

Happy Monday!

I'm not their yet...

You know who I think isn't done yet? Seattle. 

And 3 of those road games are Carolina, Detroit, Atlanta...

If somehow we can get to 6/2 by the bye...

I still believe getting wins in December will be crucial. 

The Packers were a legit Super Bowl contender with Rodgers. Without him, they will struggle to float above .500.

In 2013, Rodgers broke his left collarbone. The Packers had won four straight and were 5-2. They failed to win any of the next five games after his injury. Rodgers did return for the final regular-season game but, remember, the break that time was to the collarbone adjacent to his non-throwing arm.
The succession of Hall of Fame-caliber play from Brett Favre to Rodgers has given the Packers the best situation at quarterback in the NFL for the past quarter century.
That ended Sunday with the loss of Rodgers.
Brett Hundley is the Packers’ quarterback now, and that is not a salve that will ease the pain of losing Rodgers.






“I hate to go with the whole ‘next man up’ thing,’’ Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said, “but we have a lot of next men up right now who are being thrown to the wolves, so we have to weather the storm somehow, get healthy, and get better.”

The Packers will exist in a world where late-game heroics by their quarterback is a thing of the recent past. They get to see how many other NFL teams have lived over the past 25 years.
Meantime, the rest of the NFL gets to see how Mike McCarthy coaches when he has to do a lot more than tell Rodgers to “go get ‘em.”





“Losing Aaron Rodgers speaks for itself,” McCarthy said. “In my opinion, he is the best player in football. But this is a team game. This is the ultimate team game, and we need to be better with the 11 people on the field that we have regardless of the phase we’re in, and ultimately that is my responsibility.”
After news wafted to players just how bad their quarterback was injured, a reporter asked Nelson what Rodgers meant to the Packers. He needed just one word to answer.
“Everything,” he said.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/15/bob...ury-means/

Well, it does, right?

http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/15/laq...r-vikings/

Case Keenum vs. Brett Hundley is not the quarterbacking marquee to lure the masses off the couch but here we were defining the latest Vikings-Packers border battle by this unlikely clash of back-ups.
Anthony Barr flattened Aaron Rodgers like a human rolling pin on Green Bay’s second possession and chased the megastar to the locker room with a broken collarbone. The linebacker also smashed conventional wisdom about how Sunday’s NFC North showdown would play out at U.S. Bank Stadium, and how the division will be decided in the second half of the season.




The Vikings’ scruffy 23-10 win was their second straight in the division. It also signaled they are down for the alley fight this race is shaping up to be, with Rodgers out indefinitely, the Bears rebuilding and the unpredictable Detroit Lions mired in their perpetual identity crisis.
The NFC North is anyone’s for the taking, and the supposedly hexed Vikings might emerge in January with the flag between their teeth after all.
“We’re focused on us,” insisted defensive end Everson Griffen. “We’re not worried about the division. We’re worried about how we compete, how we come together. That’s our No. 1 focus. It’s nobody else.”




“Ah, the media darling,” coach Mike Zimmer said proudly as he strolled past the postgame media scrum at Smith’s locker.
“I thought Harrison played great,” Zimmer proffered later for the official record. “He’s smart, he’s tough, he’s physical, he’s instinctive. That was a play they’d run against us in the past. He saw it and made a good play.”
Harry the Hitman contributed 1 1/2 sacks, two quarterback hits and a pair of pass breakups, swarming the football and punishing anyone with their hands on it. He led another ferocious Vikings’ defensive performance.
The unit bullied its way to four sacks and three interceptions, elevating its stature among the NFL’s best with each week’s dominance.