The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

Monday (Milkshake) morning notes

- All it took was an email to me stating "I drink your milkshake," to know that I had to dive back into Geometry Wars 2.

Loyal reader (and Madden football league participant) Steve 'I'm not Marc' has taken up the challenge of attempting to knock off all of my high scores in this game.   I'm not saying that I'm exceptionally good at this game, but in my 5th attempt at 'Deadline' last night, I managed to double his high score.

The rest of the records should fall back into my possession later this evening.

The gauntlet, my friends, has been thrown down.  And I have picked up and lobbed it in a very weak and feeble toss back at his feet.  I don't want to hurt anyone, after all.

- A new sports game comes out tomorrow and I'll got an early release copy on Friday.  I'll be talking about that in my next post...

- As far as preseason football goes here are my thoughts on the Packers (and to a lesser extent, the Vikings games.)

1.  The Packers offense looks to be very impressive thus far.  4 long TD drives led by Rodgers has people buzzing around here.

Also, Jermichael Finley looks to be a mismatch for any and everyone.   He'll be an awesome weapon in their system all year long.

Ryan Grant and Brandon Jackson look to be a step quicker this year.  They were hitting holes at full speed in the game against Seattle and that should bode well for the regular season.

2.  Defensively it is so hard to get a read on this team as they're not blitzing and they were missing both of their starting cornerbacks (Woodson and Harris,) and all 4 of their starting linebackers.

People around here are swearing up and down that it's going to be the Arizona playoff game all over again.

Personally, I'd like to see them all on the field before we make that kind of judgement.   Still, having that many guys hurt at this point in the preseason isn't a very good thing.

3.  As far as the Vikings go.  Don't you think that most teams are going to try and emulate what the Saints did against Favre?  When you're seeing San Fran send big blitzes against Minnesota in a preseason game, I think the writing is on the wall.  "Try to hurt the old man," seems to be the way to get to the Vikings this year.   After seeing the pictures of his knees and ankles after that NFC championship game, I find it hard to believe that he won't be beat up quite a few times this year.  He'll probably beat the blitzes a few times, but at 40, it's going to get harder and harder to avoid them all.