NFL Network, ESPN, and LT's friend

I'm partial to Rich Eisen and the NFL Network. I love their thoroughness in covering the games throughout each weekend... i love their gameday show as it gives us nearly 4-5 minutes of highlights per game... i love Mooch, Deon, Eisen and the crew bantering intelligently about football and making me laugh. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttttttttttttt. Then I see 'ol Joe Theisman on NFC playbook this week, and his absolutely rediculous analysis of the vikings/niners game, and it makes me wanna shiv myself. Theisman has been one of the most spot-OFF announcers/analysts i've ever had to listen to and hearing his analysis of how Frank Gore is going to run all over the vikings in the home opener is just another example. Yes, it could potentially happen, but if the vikings and niners played this game 100 times, our defense would shut that ass down 95 out of 100 of those games. But here we have to watch Theisman choose one play where the lions got a 15 yard run last week and analyze it because EJ got sucked into the hole and Kevin Smith made a nice little play and got into our secondary. A 10-15 yard run USUALLY happens in a football game, but i guess we can correlate that play with the demise of the vikings run defense. Wow.

I predict our defense wins this game for us. Lots of sacks tomorrow and the home crowd gets the dome icky sticky. We all can feel it in the air this year with post season contention and i think the D will feed off of that.

And as for ESPN, their coverage is starting to get old, tiring, and weak compared to NFL network. MUCH fewer highlights per game, Chris Berman's same old tiring schtick every week, Schlereth generally sucking at his job, and in-your-face coverage on the most obvious and overblown NFL issues for the week. One now must have to go to other sites and media outlets to get a little deeper look into what some of the other stories are in the league and for one's favorite team. Meh.

Geez I hope the 'queens pull this one out tomorrow and head into the Green Bay game with a sexy lil 3-0 record for monday night. My prediction is 24-20 vikings. The D scores one of our TD's.