Gosh I Love Da Packers!

You know, I'd give my left kidney for dem der Packers, but golly gee, Bob, their defense looks downright ugly. Unfortunately, due to the mire and muck that has become our defense (let's all hear a big hooray for Hawthorne as a starting corner), there have been a couple bright spots that have been mostly unnoticed.

First of all, Favre has looked better this season than I think he has for a long time (last night's 3 interceptions aside). He's already thrown for 1200 yards and 9 touchdowns - that puts him on pace for almost 4000 yards passing and 29 touchdowns - not a bad season, at all. Of course, it's easy for a quartback to rack up gaudy numbers when your defense gives up so many points that you have to throw all game long.

Secondly, Javon Walker is really having the breakout season that everyone wanted him to have. A third year receiver, it was "put up or shut up" time for Walker, in my opinion. He's shown potential over the last couple years, but never cracked into the starting lineup. Well, this year, with his NFC leading 535 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns (which puts him behind only Owens and Moss for scores by a receiver), Walker has not only put Ferguson squarely on the bench, but he's easily stolen the spotlight from Donald Driver as the Packers number 1 receiver. At 26 years years old (he'll turn 26 on Thursday), if this kid keeps this up, he's going to be a star for a long time.

Now, if we could just do something about that defense...

Packers aside, I stopped off at the florist this morning to send some roses to my wife - it's our second anniversary today. Hopefully, she won't read my blog this morning and the flowers will still be a surprise when they get there. If not, act surprised, honey. ;) I think we're going to keep it pretty low-key this year. We'll probably go out for dinner tonight, but that's about it. She's been gone so much that it'll be nice just to be together again.

I don't know if Nate put it in his blog or not yet, but he was offered an internship in Appleton the other day. He interviewed last Thursday and they offered the position to him a few days later. So, even though he'll still be doing a little work on the farm, it looks like Nate's going to become a city boy. Now, if he'd just ask out the HR chick that he likes so much out there. :P

I talked to my mom the other day. She's off to the great wild west to do some hunting tomorrow (apparently, there just isn't enough stuff to kill in Wisconsin). As of the other night, she still hadn't gotten a deer because she has to shoot a doe first and she's only had shots at bucks so far. Must be tough to be so good that you only see the deer you want to shoot. :) Well, good luck to you out west, Mom.

That's about it for me, I suppose. I'll catch y'all later.

Corey