Thursday, September 4, 2008

Blog That Dopesheet: Vikings Week Thursday Blog

From this week's Dopesheet
  • The Packers open the 90th season and for the 4th time on Monday Nite Football.
  • Packers return 21 of 22 starters.
  • 5 of 1st 8 games are against play off teams.
  • G Josh Sitton and QB Matt Flynn are the only rookies on the 2 deep chart.
  • It was 1983 and Lynn Dickey started for the Packers on Monday Nite Football. All Monday Nite Packer games since then have been started by Brett Favre and now Aaron Rogers.
  • 41 Packers return from last year, 8 of the newcomers are from this years draft.
  • The 2006 Chargers had 2 QB's that had not started a game and finished the year 14-2. In the same situation the 2001 Panthers went 1-15. The Packers QB's have 0 starts among them.
  • Last season’s 34-0 shutout by the Packers was the first blanking by
    either team in their 94 meetings.
  • OT's Clifton and Tauscher (65) have 218 starts between them.
  • New Long snapper Goode, Punter Frost also new to the team and K Crosby have 5 practices to get in sync.
  • All 11 defensive starters return.

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