MNF Liveblog: Green Bay vs. Seattle

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Can’t say we’re real intrigued by this one. The Pack going to Seattle, where we’ll undoubtedly hear about two storylines all night long: Brett Favre/Mike Holgrem and How Amazing Brett Favre Is/Will Brett Favre Retire At The End Of This Year. Can’t wait. Here are just a few more things we’re mildly stoked about:

• Watching Brett Favre play behind an offensive line featuring 4 rookies.
• AJ Hawk and Lofa Tatupu, two of the better young linebackers in the NFL.
• Um, yeah…that’s really about it. We have no fantasy implications in this game, have no real rooting interest, and don’t think that it’s going to be a real great game. You should stick around though.

  Check out something resembling a live blog after the jump.

  Green Bay 24 — Seattle 34

  Pregame
  
  Looks like we’re getting a little bit of a snow flurry in Seattle. Nice. Sea-gals look like they’re freezing.

  What the hell kind of montage was that Tony K? Brett Favre is Tony Bennett? Brett Favre is the Mississippi River? Uh, OK. We guess.

  Hasselbeck is starting tonight, even though he’s not quite as healthy as the Hawks would like him to be. We’re glad we’re not being subjected to more Seneca Wallace.

  Favre feeling soreness in his inner forearm. Hmm. Yeah, ulner nerve my ass. Sounds more like Mrs. Favre cut off the love supply.

  1st Quarter

  Seattle’s ball on their own 25

  Hasselbeck’s 2nd pass, deflected and picked by Woodson. Could be a lot of turnovers in this one tonight. Huge play early on.
  
  Packers ball on the Hawks 35
  Tony K breaks out this nugget: Favre should be fine, as long as he doesn’t get hit. Because, you know, QBs never get hit. Good call Tony.

  Pack makes short work of the short field, capping the drive with an Ahman Green TD from about 5 yards out. Good job taking advantage of the early turnover. 7-0 Pack.

  Hawks ball on their own 20-ish 12:35 Q1
  Seahawks can’t get much going on offense. Something we’ve seen a ton of this year: false starts by wide receivers at home. There’s no excuse for a WR to EVER get a false start, especially at home. Darrell Jackson shows it to us on 3rd down, but Hasselbeck was able to convert on 3rd and long.

  Hasselbeck throws another pick!!! Not sure where Hasselbeck was going. Shaun Alexander was split wide, and no one was covering him, but Hasselbeck didn’t look his way. Great field position again for Green Bay.

  Green Bay ball, somewhere in good field position, 10:35 Q1
  Packers go 3 and out, good stop for the Hawks D right there. That was exactly what they needed. Now, on offense, they need to work the ball down the field with Shaun Alexander. Hasselbeck is 2 for 5 with 2 picks.
  
  Hawks ball on their own 28, 8:39 Q1
  Seahawks convert on 3rd and 2, Hasselbeck to Burleson. Walter Jones absolutely cancelled out KGB on that one.

  Alexander off left tackle, FUMBLE….can’t believe the Packers didn’t get that one. Looked like they were about to pick up their 3rd turnover.

  Seahawks have a little bit of a drive going, looks like they’ve crossed the midfield…but it’s tough tell with all the snow on the field.

  Another 3rd down coming up. Hawks being much more patient on this drive.

  Hasselbeck can’t convert on 3rd down, after the Packers get a nice pass rush. Ball went through Mack Strong’s hand. 46 yarder coming up…..and he got it!!!! Tough kick in the snow. Seahawks are on the board 7-3 Packers.

  Packers ball on their own 19, 3:25 Q1
  Favre goes deep for Driver on the second play. Good pass, good route…better coverage. Nice job of Kelly Herndon to knock the ball away.

  Pack with a big gain on 3rd and 4. Favre got a lot of time, threw it to the backside safety valve, who picked up another 20 on it. Nice play.

  Favre on the throwback to the backside post, picked off the end zone!!! Ill-advised pass. Guess that’s why they say Rex Grossman has a little bit of Brett Favre in him.
  
  Seahawks ball on their own 22, 15:00 Q2
  3rd and 7 coming up for the Hawks….Hasselbeck throws his 3rd pick!!! Great play by Charles Woodson, and the Pack are set up inside the Hawks 30.

  Packers ball inside the Hawks 30
  Ahman Green rips off 14 on 1st down, 1st and goal.

  Packers trying to work the left side, nothing doing. 3rd and goal coming up.

  After a timeout and a false start, the Packers go to the ground from outside the 10. Very conservative play there. Not sure we like that play call. Theisman is defending the call, but it seems a bit overly cautious to us.

  Packers settle for a FG….And the kick is blocked!!!! So the Packers have 7 points off 3 Seattle turnovers. That’s going to come back and bite them in the ass in the 2nd half.
  
  Hawks ball on their own 20, 12:29 Q2
  Alexander looking good on a cut back run. And he comes right back up the gut. Alexander looking good against a good Packers run defense. Hawks are just winning the battle up front right now.

  Hasselbeck gets Itula Mili killed on a crossing route. Huge hit by Brady Poppinga.

  Hasselbeck launches into the endzone into coverage. Nick Collins lets it go through his hands, and then Paul Hackett can’t hang on. Hasselbeck lucky that one wasn’t picked.

  Brown gets a FG out of it. 7-6 Packers.

  
  Packers ball on their own 17, 8:30 Q2
  Jimmy Kimmel is our distinguished guest tonight. Lovely. We got nothing against Kimmel. Did his best work when he was on “Win Ben Stein’s Money” if you ask us.

  Farve launches it deep to Driver off his back foot. Driver was open, but Favre couldn’t quite enough mustard on it. Packers punt coming up.
  
  Hawks ball at the Packers 44, 6:55 Q2
  Well, the game has slowed to a crawl, but Kimmel’s slayin’ ‘em in the booth right now. The best part when he asked Joe how is leg is doing, and Joe got all pissy with him.

  Tony: “why not take a hammer, and smash your own?” in response to Joe talking some dumbass thing about how Hasselbeck wants to get his bell rung to get his back in the flow of the game.

  Hasselbeck launches it out of the endzone off his back foot. Another FG try for Seattle coming up. Brown is good from 37! 9-7 Seahawks.
  
  Packers ball on their own 30, 3:28 Q2
  Packers really need to put a drive together here. They really haven’t moved the ball much at all. Their only score came on the short field off of the first Seattle turnover.

  Favre evades the rush on 3rd down, but then gets killed as he throws the ball downfield. Almost picked. Pack 3 and out. Not what they needed there.
  
  Hawks ball on their own 35-ish, 2:29 Q2
  Hasselbeck hit from the blindside by KGB, ball pops right into the hands of Abdul Hodge, who takes it to the house!!!! Crazy looking play. Hasselbeck with his 4th turnover of the half, and the Packers regain the lead at 14-9.

  Holmgren looks pissed. Theisman talking about whether or not Holmgren should pull Hasselbeck. We think not. We think you gotta stick with the guy.

  Hawks ball on the 50, 1:45 Q2
  Hawks running the 2 minute drill, Hasselbeck connects with Branch on 1st down.

  Hasselbeck find Stevens in the end zone, who drops the ball. Gets bailed out by a defensive holding penalty. Poor effort by Stevens right there.

  Hawks have the ball in the red zone. We’re pretty sure they’re going to punch it in…or Hasselbeck’s going to toss another pick, one or the other.

  2nd and goal from the 10, :39 left before halftime. Hasselbeck almost throws another pick!!! Terrible decision throwing back across his body into the middle of the field. Jesus, Matt…what were you thinking?

  3rd and goal, Hasselbeck hits Burleson right in the hands on the slant route, Burleson drops it. Brown with his 4th FG attempt. Bad snap, but the kick is good! 14-12 Packers.

  Packers get the ball back with 18 seconds before halftime, take a knee and call it good. Pretty entertaining first half. Packers have the lead, but really should have a bigger lead, given the 4 Seattle turnovers.

  We’re going to grab a slice. Be back for Q3.

  3rd Quarter
  Packers have the ball in their own territory. We’re a little late coming back from halftime, because we were A) stuffing our face with pizza and B) reading this rather entertaining piece.

  Packers convert a 3rd down! Feel like we haven’t seen much of that this year. Greg Jennings looked like he might not get there, but he just got past the first down line.

  Next play, Favre to Driver for 48 yards and the TD!!! Great play. Packers open up a lead right out of the schute in the 2nd half. 21-12 Pack. Replay shows Ken Hamlin taking a horrible angle to let Driver run right past him.
  
  Hawks ball on their own 22, 12:31 Q3
  Holmgren’s face looking especially pink this evening.

  Jerramy Stevens down the middle, gets absolutely lit up and loses the ball. Pass incomplete. We’re just guessing here, but Stevens isn’t going to find himself in a Seahawks jersey next year. That was a big hit, but Stevens needed to make that play.
  
  Packers ball on their own 30 or something, 11:00 left Q3
  
  Favre flushed, chucks it up, almost picked.

  3rd down coming up, Packers go 3 and out. The announcers are talking about the fact that if the Pack hang on to win this one, they’ll be right in the mix of th NFC playoff race. Says something about the NFC, doesn’t it, that the Packers are pretty much in the playoff race?
  
  Hawks ball, 9:52 Q3
  Hasselbeck has another pass dropped, leading to a discussion about how maybe the Seahawks just aren’t that good. Look, we’ve been saying this for years. The Seahawks aren’t that good. But they’re not that bad either. We tend to think that their struggles this year have more to do with the fact that they’ve been without their starting RB and QB for good chunks of the season. Maybe.

  3rd and 12 coming up. Pass incomplete, but there’s a penalty on the Pack.

  Steve Young is up in the booth. Two booth guests in one night? What the hell. We don’t like it when our routine gets screwed with.

  Meanwhile, Hasselbeck to Hackett for the TD!!!! 21-19 Packers.
  
  Packers ball on their on 32, 6:14 Q3
  
  Crowd has been whipped into a frenzy.

  Great shot of Qwest Field. Between SafeCo and Qwest, Seattle may have the best football/baseball stadium combo in the US.

  Favre’s 3rd down pass tipped and almost picked. Meanwhile the announcers are still on Favre’s nutz about the consecutive game streak. In all fairness, though, there’s been a lot less Favre fallating than we had anticipated.

  Hawks ball on their own 23, 4:37 Q3
  Hasselbeck almost tosses another pick, then finds Darrell Jackson on 2nd down for a 15 yard gain.

  Alexander with a nice cutback run. Looks like he’s back in full form. Packers actually have a pretty solid run defense, and Alexander is just cutting ‘em right now.

  Hasselbeck takes off running, almost gets the first down, then almost fumbles. 4th down coming up. Seattle going for it. Hope they don’t go to Stevens. They pick it up with Mack Strong up the gut.

  3rd quarter comes to a painless end on an Alexander run. Quick quarter. That’s how we like it.

  4th Quarter
  Seattle with the ball in the red zone. More Alexander. First and goal.

  Hasselbeck audibles to a fade to Jackson, and hits him the back of the end zone for the TD!!!! Great throw, great catch. Yowza. Very good coverage by Charles Woodson, but just a great play.

  Seattle picking up steam, and the two point conversion makes it 27-21. Stevens with the catch on the two pointer, and the crowd appreciates the fact that he hangs on to the ball.

  Packers ball on their own 40, 14:04 Q4
  Packers trying to get something going, 3rd down coming up.

  Favre with a great throw right down the seam to Driver. Great touch down the field. Big play.

  Packers with the ball in the red zone. Packers set up a nice looking screen on 2nd down, and it looked like it was set up well. Packers O line just couldn’t get out there, and Julian Peterson blows it up.

  Packers settle for the FG. 27-24 Seattle.

  Hawks ball on their own 49 10:41 Q4
  Hasselbeck almost throws a pick in the flat off play-action. Seems like we’ve been writing “hasselbeck almost throws a pick” on the first play of every drive tonight.

  Hasselbeck hits as he throws, pass falls dead. They nail Cullen Jenkins for roughing the passer. Terrible, terrible call. He hit the QB while the ball was still in his hands and was obviously trying to avoid hitting his head. His left hand hit the QBs back on the way to ground. Awful call. Just disgusting. When will the NFL stop going completely over the top to protect the QB? It’s jsut ridiculous. Might as well give them the no-contact practice jerseys to wear every week. Jenkins was pissed, and he had a right to be.

  Stevens gets drilled again trying to make a catch, and, predictably, the ball pops free.

  4th and 1, Alexander picks it up off the left side. Man, it’s gotta be nice running behind big Walter Jones.

  Alexander with another big run off left tackle. First down inside the 10.

  Hawks go play action, bootleg action to the right side. We’re not quite sure why. Why not just pound the ball on the left side again? The Packers can’t stop them.

  3rd and goal from the 3.

  Stevens in the back of the end zone for the TD!!! Great catch. Man, just when we think he can’t get any worse, he goes and does something like that….and completely redeems himself!

  Seahawks 34-24. This one is over, folks, with under 7 to go.

  Packers ball on their own 31, 6:07 Q4
  First play, Favre goes deep, picked off by Marcus Trufant. That one was predictable.

  Why was Favre trying to chuck into double coverage to a free agent rookie? Guess that’s just Brett Favre.

  Hawks ball on their own 30, 5:10 Q4
  Alexander with almost 200 yards on the night. Kornheiser talking about the importance of Hasselbeck and Alexander to this team. No kidding. This team could definitely do some damage in the playoffs, if they get a team at home.

  Hawks punt.
  
  Packers ball on their own 26, 4:20 left

  Jennings trying to get out of bounds, great tackle by Jordan Babineaux to keep him inbounds.

  And Favre is picked again!!! This time by Kelly Jennings. Not sure what Favre was thinking there….trying to squeeze it in where there wasn’t anywhere to go with it.

  Hawks ball on their own 39, 3:28 left
  Alexander working on 40 carries for the night.

  Seahawks punting again. Can Favre throw another pick with around 2 and a half minutes left? Seems like plenty of time to us.

  Packers ball on their own 11, 2:30 left
  
  2:00 warning. Packers just picked up a first down. Game is very close to being over. We’re looking for that last Favre pick, and a few kneel downs. Let’s get this done, guys.

  Favre almost gets number 4! Hits Julian Peterson right in the numbers, and he drops it.

  Penalty on the Pack. Run 10 seconds off the game clock. Woo-hoo! 42 seconds to go.

  Another penalty on the Pack. :16 seconds left. Please just let this game end.

  Looks like we’ve got ball game here. What clusterfuck of a last play. If you didn’t see it, we’re not going to describe it. Well, we feel prophetic….the Packers only got 14 points off 4 first half turnovers. Gotta get more points than that. Ball game. We’re thankful it’s over.

  
  
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