This is another rivalry matchup in what’s become a veritable Week 10 Rivalry Week across the NFL.  I remember the good ol’ days of Vikings-Packers fantasy duels between Daunte Culpepper and Brett Favre throwing the long ball all over the place, making fantasy owners drunk with points euphoria.  Those days have mostly passed, even though the Packers carry on the tradition with Aaron Rodgers guiding a Packers offensive machine that looks unstoppable on a weekly basis. 

The Vikings are coming off their bye and have been better as behind Christian Ponder, who actually looks like a fairly good quarterback for a rookie just learning the ropes.  But then again, almost anything is better than watching Donovan McNabb trot every week to pretty much kill the fantasy value of all the Vikings players… ok, I take that back, you could be watching the Redskins trotting out Captain Checkdown (aka John Beck), which hard to believe the over the hill and run down McNabb looks head and shoulders better than.  Weird to think that Redskins fans might actually want McNabb back, but I digress.  The Vikings will hitch their wagons to Adrian Peterson, coming off a season best smearing of the Carolina Panthers for over 170 yards right before the bye week.  Look for a similar heavy dose of AP, as the Vikings will try to keep the ball out of the hands of Rodgers as much as possible.

The Packers come off a frenetically paced win on the road against a Chargers team that refused to go away, and if it wasn’t for a pair of touchdown passes Philip Rivers threw to the Packers secondary, we might be talking about how the Packers let one slip away in San Diego rather than their knack for surviving.  Look for the Packers to try to put this game away early, as the Vikings secondary is the weakest link on the defensive side of the ball.  By getting up by two or three scores early on, it will limit the Vikings’ willingness to pound the ball with Adrian Peterson, who happens to be the Vikings best player and best shot at winning in any given week.  Also from reading the local press for the Packers, it sounds like they will be working on what they consider their only blemish, which is running the ball in the second half to salt away a game.  Of course, saying the Packers running game is a blemish is akin to saying to pointing out Megan Fox’s toe-like thumbs… in the end, it doesn’t really matter as long as the whole is package is hot, right?  And of course, the Packers offense is most definitely hot.
 
Good Start:  RB Adrian Peterson, WR Percy Harvin, QB Aaron Rodgers, WR Greg Jennings, WR Jordy Nelson, TE Jermichael Finley
Middle of the Road:  QB Christian Ponder, TE Visanthe Shiancoe, RB James Starks, WR James Jones
Bad Start:  WR Michael Jenkins, RB Ryan Grant, WR Donald Driver, WR Randall Cobb

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