I'm still trying to figure out what happened; I sure never saw it coming. Two weeks ago I predicted a Packer win at Cincinnati, last week I kept quiet but started expecting a win as soon as I heard Charlie Batch was going to start at QB for the Steelers but this week my only positive thought going in was that maybe it wouldn't be a blow-out.

So what happened? Well, for starters they didn't beat themselves. That's a good first step but is it enough to beat a first place team on the road in a dome? Are they better than the Falcons if they play their best game? I mean the Falcons didn't beat themselves either, did they? Two statistical indicators were positive, maybe that's the story. They had a 100 yard rusher (Samkon Gado) and their record when they have one of those in the last fifteen years is very good (don't know exactly what though). But the Falcons had even more yards rushing than the Packers. Hmm...
Well they won the turn-over battle three to one, a plus 2 differential is good for a win something like 75% of the time in the NFL, maybe that's the reason. Didn't hurt anyway.

One of the things that I did notice was their kick-off coverage was much improved; they actually stopped them short of the twenty at least twice. I guess the Pack won the field position battle. Add everything up and it's a win I guess. Plus Favre had a very good game in my opinion (and also Donald Driver). (And Antonio Chatman) And one last thing; not many penalties! One big one on Ahmad Carroll that I thought was a bad call until I saw the replay but otherwise a very clean game, O line was good, no hands to the face penalties on the secondary, that's the way it oughta be.

They have seven games left and right now every one looks winnable. Would that be the best turn-around ever or what? Course it'll never happen. Still, ya never know...