Viking radio announcer rips Favre

[Kevin Greene]

Good stuff here.

Paul Allen lets Favre have it

Posted by Mike Florio on January 25, 2010 12:08 PM ET

As many some a few of you know, I do a weekly radio spot with Paul Allen of KFAN. Paul also is the voice of the Vikings, and he's excellent at what he does. (Please don't tell him I said that.)

All year, I've been warning Paul that, given the Vikings' history, they ultimately will fail in a critical game, and in a new and spectacular way.

Frankly, it doesn't get much more new or spectacular than it was last night.

For a brief slice of the fourth quarter, Vikings fans were able to persuade themselves that, indeed, a long-awaited return to the Super Bowl would happen, as the offense drove methodically down the field after a couple of early running plays in which coach Brad Childress seemed to be content to play for overtime, like Dennis Green had done 11 years earlier.

But then came one of the most confusing brain farts in NFL history, with 12 men in the huddle after a time out.

And then came the play that could define the latter days of Brett Favre's career, called with brutal -- and accurate -- honesty by Paul Allen.

Have a listen.

Paul Allen, you are my new hero.

[Darth Biscuit]

He called it straight... he was not happy.

[Dpantherman]

He sounds like we probably sound watching Jake play on Sundays.

[CanadianCat]

ha ha thats actually pretty funny

[Lumps]

This is the play that for me was all end to the Vikings. Brett needed to scramble all of 5 yards to be within a game winning 50 yard FG and he throws an INT back side. All other plays to me are forgivable but this one. Yea peterson had fumbles, but take away him and the viks would be -3 tds.

Farve is going to remember this for the rest of his life.

[monstercat]

Brett Favre had plenty of help losing that game. I guess it's easy for people to sit on their fat asses and criticize though. Out of the 300+ million human beings in this country, Brett Favre is the only one of the bunch that could do what he did at 40yrs old.

[Darth Biscuit]

Brett Favre had plenty of help losing that game. I guess it's easy for people to sit on their fat asses and criticize though. Out of the 300+ million human beings in this country, Brett Favre is the only one of the bunch that could do what he did at 40yrs old.

You're right, but kinderfield is right too... Favre could have wiped all those other turnovers out if he'd just held the ball and ran out of bounds... he knows it too.

[njpanther]

I can't believe what i just saw

[KillerKat]

This is the play that for me was all end to the Vikings. Brett needed to scramble all of 5 yards to be within a game winning 50 yard FG and he throws an INT back side. All other plays to me are forgivable but this one. Yea peterson had fumbles, but take away him and the viks would be -3 tds.

Farve is going to remember this for the rest of his life.

This is bull. 2/3 of Petersons TDs were within 5 yards of the endzone. Chester Taylor could've done what AP did yesterday minus the fumbles. Peterson is the real reason why they lost with his redzone fumble that took away points. If that hadn't happened, the Vikings would be in the Super Bowl.

[Lumps]

This is bull. 2/3 of Petersons TDs were within 5 yards of the endzone. Chester Taylor could've done what AP did yesterday minus the fumbles. Peterson is the real reason why they lost with his redzone fumble that took away points. If that hadn't happened, the Vikings would be in the Super Bowl.

I look at the bigger picture. Obviously, the loss was a result collective of mistakes, not just because of one single player. If you consider time and situation at which the mistakes were made relating them to actually putting away the saints and winning the game and avoiding OT was this play alone. If you read closley I said this play was the END of the vikes chance to win (not to be confused on why they lost or the main reason tehy lost), which clearly it was. Petersons mistake was not as text book as Favre's, which to me makes this INT even worse. If this play would have been another fumble or even the first fumble for Peterson, I would be saying the same thing.

I don't believe its difficult to claim teams can 'lose' games in the first half, and games are won in the 4th quarter, especially championship games. Sure got to spell it out don't I.

[KillerKat]

I look at the bigger picture. Obviously, the loss was a result collective of mistakes, not just because of one single player. If you consider time and situation at which the mistakes were made relating them to actually putting away the saints and winning the game and avoiding OT was this play alone. If you read closley I said this play was the END of the vikes chance to win (not to be confused on why they lost or the main reason tehy lost), which clearly it was. Petersons mistake was not as text book as Favre's, which to me makes this INT even worse.

I don't believe its difficult to claim teams can 'lose' games in the first half, and games are won in the 4th quarter, especially championship games. Sure got to spell it out don't I.

You still don't get it. Yeah there were other mistakes, but If Peterson didnt fumble in the redzone, the Vikes would at least added a FG. That was the most crucial because they would've added at least 3 more points to the board. Then the game wouldn't have even gone into over time.

[Proudiddy]

On NFLN Deion said exactly what I was thinking - If you know anything about football, then you know that last INT was meaningless. And honestly, I would argue the INT he threw when he was injured didn't hurt them much either.

In a perfect world, sure, you wouldn't want any INTs especially after the fumble fest they were having all game, but Favre's INT with 7 secs left wasn't the backbreaker.

First off, blame the dumbass who wasn't supposed to be in the huddle for taking them back 5 yards and out of FG range. You could also blame the OC for calling those very predicatable running plays the 2 plays prior to the pass that laft them at 3rd and 10 and subsequently after the penalty 3rd and 15.

As Deion said, it was 3rd and 15 with >10 secs left, you are out of FG range, all you can ask your QB to do was throw it up and hope to get some yardage back. Yeah, he shouldn't have thrown back across his body, but the guys running up the field on the right where he was rolling out to were covered. Ultimately, it was the penalty that killed them.

Who didn't expect the Vikings to pass on that play? He could've ran, but there's no guarantee he would have got 5 yards. Everything that could've happened is all a "what if."

So what if he would've ran the 5 yards, went out of bounds, stopped the clock and gave them time to kick a FG. Yeah, ideally they would've loved the opportunity... But, how do you know Longwell would've A)made it, and got enough leg behind it to even clear the back of the end zone. What if the kick would've fell short and they had Bush back there to return it?

Again, it was the penalty that messed it all up, and I'm not a Favre apologist.

[CatMan72]

Deon loves him some Brett... the bottom line is that Farve did the worst thing he could possibly do on that play by turning the ball over. Vikings have one of the best FG kickers in the game right now, all he had to do was stumble forward for another couple of yards and the Vikings would probably be booking flights to Miami right now...

[nosuchthingasapanther]

"THIS ISN'T DETROIT, MAN! THIS IS THE SUPERBOWL!"

good stuff.