Week 1 Recap: Vikings @ Browns

Just wanted to share some of my random thoughts while watching the season opener for the Vikings:

* Brett Favre looks old. Just watching him walk around looks very grueling to him. The shoulder pads look like they could weigh around 100 lbs the way his shoulders are sagging.

* How do we have two players (Adrian Peterson and Benny Sapp) getting so dehydrated to the point where they had to insert IV fluids? We were in Cleveland of all places, and it was only 70 degrees outside...??

* On Adrian Peterson's 64 yard touchdown run...Sludge (KFAN morning show) brought up a great point when trying to describe the play: "If you were playing video games, it was the kind of play that happens that infuriates you to point where you think it's so unrealistic...and they've made the guy on the game too damn good."

* I think Brian Billick thinks Brian Billick is amazing at everything he does...but, I actually have to admit that I did enjoy his play-by-play commentary. I never really cared for him as a coach, but he was pretty spot on throughout the game. (Although, this judgement could be influenced by how horrendous the two clowns doing the Gopher football game the night before.)

* Although they won't go public with this information...don't you get the feeling that the Vikings thought process with the whole handling of the Favre situation (still pursuing him after training camp had already broke)...we have three winnable games right out of the gate, no matter who our quarterback is under center...we'll use that as Brett's preseason to get him acclimated with the offense in general, as well as conditioning.

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