matt weighs in

The Minnesota Vikings, Brett Favre, and Brad Childress will put the ridiculousness of the past eight days behind them and beat the Bears on Monday Night Football. Much of the last week has been spent speculating whether or not Favre and Childress can continue to coexist on the Vikings sideline.

My take is that it was over the Monday morning after the terrible game in Carolina, but ESPN could not let this story die, since tonight’s game is on their station. Every team has dialogue between coach and player.

Because it involved Favre, there had to be more read into it than was actually there. Chilly should not have thought about taking Favre out in the 3rd quarter, but Favre should not have talked about it so much in the post game press conference. They did, and the media ran with it.

The Vikings will beat the Bears by 10 or more. The wind and temperature will be a nuisance, but the Vikings should use it to get their running game back on track. Favre should use Adrian Peterson, Chester Taylor, and Shiancoe in their short passing game, and the Defensive front four, without Pat Williams, should do enough to keep Jay Cutler unbanced all night.

Let’s say 27-13 Vikings. And they should have the 2nd seed in the NFC playoffs locked up.