Who Should We Trust in Wobbling NFC?
Filed under: NFL
Editor’s Note: This column has been updated from its original version.
In this year of the fraud, from Tiger to A-Rod to Balloon Boy, we now confront the question of which football team is the bigger tease: the Saints or Cowboys. It’s entirely possible both will crash in the postseason, which should confirm a once-common sentiment that the Vikings are the NFC’s most complete team given their playmakers on offense, difference-makers on defense and the fact Brett Favre’s arm hasn’t fallen off as his gray beard reveals flecks of — would you believe? — white.
But then, just as we started to envision the world’s first All-Apolis Super Bowl, Minnesota laid its own rotten egg Sunday night against Carolina. It was the second time in three games that the Vikings looked like wannabes. They couldn’t run the ball with Adrian Peterson, couldn’t stop the run, fell flat in the fourth quarter and let Matt Moore — Matt Moore? — find the forgotten Steve Smith enough to hand Minnesota its third loss. As for Favre, he was tortured the entire game by Julius Peppers and last was seen winging an interception in the end zone, as he did so often last winter in his Meadowlands meltdown with the Jets.
The original article and other great content can be found at this URL: http://jay-mariotti.fanhouse.com/2009/12/20/frankly-i-dont-trust-saints-or-cowboys/
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