Week 12 – Green Bay Packers
at Seattle Seahawks
Opening
Line: Seahawks - 9.5
Monday, 8:35 pm Eastern
ESPN
Brett Favre is expected to make his 252nd consecutive start
despite a sore elbow Monday night as the Packers face the
Seahawks. Favre is facing his mentor Seattle head coach Mike
Holmgren, with whom he won a Super Bowl with in Green Bay.
Favre won all three of his MVP awards from 1995-97 and a Super
Bowl title with Holmgren as his coach but SBG
Global reports that the betting public has long
forgot those days and are putting their money on Seattle.
Holmgren left the Packers after the 1998 season to sign an
eight-year, $32 million deal with the Seahawks. Holmgren failed
to win a playoff game in his first six years in Seattle before
guiding the Seahawks to Super Bowl XL last February. Favre
is 3-1 against his former coach.
Both teams are still in the playoff hunt with Seattle atop
the NFC West division and the Packers still somewhat alive
in the wild card race. Green Bay has been extremely inconsistent
all season and will only go as far as Favre will lead them.
Seattle is a 9 point home favorite with a total of 46 at
SBG
Global.
Seattle has struggled, but might be getting healthy at the
right time heading down the stretch to the playoffs. Quarterback
Matt Hasselbeck will return on Monday. He has missed the last
four weeks with a sprained knee ligament. Last week, backup
Seneca Wallace was intercepted three times in the Seahawks'
20-14 loss at San Francisco. The loss reduced Seattle's lead
to one game over the 49ers in the NFC West. Shaun Alexander
returned last week after missing six games with a broken bone
in his foot and was held to 37 yards on 17 carries.
Favre left the Packers' 35-0 loss to New England last week
late in the second quarter with an elbow injury after being
sacked by Ty Warren and Tedy Bruschi. He had done nothing
in the game completing just 5-of-15 passes for 73 yards and
the Packers were already down by 21 points. Backup Aaron Rodgers
played the rest of the way and completed just 4-of-12 passes
for 32 yards. He also suffered a broken foot, ending his season.
It could be a good week for Ahman Green of the Packers. The
Seahawks yielded 262 yards on the ground, including 212 to
Frank Gore, in last week's loss to the 49ers.
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