2011 Wk 4… 4 and 0!

Wednesday 05th October 2011
at 12:06am

So what do you know, you find yourself watching opening day one weekend and a few minutes later, at least it seems, your favorite team is 4 and 0! Where did the 3 weeks in between go? As I’ve said so often before I tend to find myself guilty of letting everything else in life take priority over this blog. Unless of course when I’m actually travelling. In those cases though, I have loads of exciting things to report on.

So far as the last few months go I guess I could tell you all about the things that us crazy Scullino’s get up to but, for the most part, we’re too busy living it for me to write about it. And by the time our two little terrors do hit the hay my lovely wife and I are usually so beat that we end up sharing our evening with the idiot box. Unless of course Kelly has taken an early night. In that case I tend to find myself watching recorded ESPN shows like SportsCentre, SportNation, PTI and Around the Horn. 

As for the first four games, I was totally blown away by opening week. If there was a single week that I wanted to be in Green Bay since 2007, this was it. (Bare in mind I did make it for the two days following the Super Bowl.) The concerts, the hoopla, the eyes of the nation on my favorite little corner of the world. It looked absolutely spectacular. And to beat the Saints, in the fashion that we did really did top it all off. I have to say, with the drafting of Randall Cobb, my immediate impression was the we were going to use him to slowly take the place of DD when he decides, in his own time, that his time has come. To see him carry his preseason form into his debut the way that he did was incredible. For a first game rookie, his swagger, and 107 yard kick-off return will alway s be sometning I’ll remember as his career matures over the years.

In week two I was surprsied, and a little nervous by Cam Newton. I didn’t think we’d have any trouble accounting for the seemingly revitalised Panthers. Cam’s energy though had me wondering just how high he could lift them.

As for Chicago in week three, they, along with the Saints, seemed to be our toughest competition early on.  That being said our offense, not just in that game but in all of them, was looking harder and harder to stop.

Then there was the Tebows, I mean Broncos last weekend. That game, if I can say so without sounding like any game is a given, was always going to be a given. The way that we came out of the blocks though was nothing short of amazing. And Aaron Rodegrs numbers? Incredible.

I know that was the briefest of brief wraps, but I find that in this day and age there are so many experts espousing their views over every form of social media that I don’t need to rabble on like a sports show host to get my message across. The one thing I do want to know though is who, when you look at our remaining schedule, is capable of beating us? Atlanta, San Diego, Chicago and the Giants… at a stretch? I ask because even those teams, who should all make the playoffs on their own merits, don’t look anywhere near as complete as our Packers. Heck, outside of the Falcons and Chargers, we’ll be in mid November with the very real prospect of sitting 9 and 0 before we get to the Bucs. And even then, the Bucs barely put away the Peyton-less Colts this evening. The Lions? Sure they’re doing well but I wonder how long that’ll last. The Eagles? They remind me more of the Heat than a football team. The Giants? Perhaps the only genuine threat? Who knows. I’m not suggesting that we’ll end-up 19 and 0 but I am beginning to wonder who might stop us along the way?

My final thought for this week before I round this post out is for the Vikings. I hope to goodness they pull a few wins and lift the spirit of their fans in the Twin Cities, No, I don’t care for them one bit. I do value their contribution to the north though and the Packer-Viking rivalry that has developed over the decades of good and bad times. I really do think the NFL will lose if the Vikings end-up being the team that moves to LA. It won’t be the same for the league, or for any of us. Sure, the bragging rights will last a lifetime, but the thrill of a divisional game against the Los Angeles Vikings, wearing different colours, on a balmy November afternoon not far from the beach, will mean nothing compared to that match-up the way it is today. Aaron might appreciate a surf before he heads to back to frozen Wisconsin but seriously, I hope it doesn’t happen.

Anyway, that’s just my opinion.

I’ll be sure to update again next week and include more of the family ‘cause plenty of people are asking how Kel and the boys are. Apart from a pretty rough bout of whooping cough, that we’re all deaing with at the moment, they’re as wonderful as they usually are.

Talk again soon. And Go Pack Go!

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