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Next man up. It's a mantra preached by Packers coach Mike McCarthy on a regular basis.

After they fumbled the opening kickoff, allowed a struggling opponent to maintain confidence in one of the few home games it sells out anymore, missed an indoor field goal and insisted on trading touchdowns for kicks, the Green Bay Packers seemed destined to take a cleaver to the holiday.

Aaron Kampman is helped off the field Sunday. Tests confirm that Al Harris and Kampman have season-ending knee injuries.

I hear alot people are saying that the Packers losing Al Harris and Aaron Kampman for the rest of the season is going to be a huge loss, but it is really a blessing in disguise.

Minnesota tight end Jeff Dugan heads into the end zone, past Green Bay's Atari Bigby during the fourth quarter of the Vikings' 38-26 win.

Cornerback Antoine Winfield celebrates after intercepting a pass at the MN 23 in the second quarter, as the Vikings defeat the Green Bay Packers 30-23 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis on October 5, 2009 .

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The return of former Packers legend and current Vikings QB Brett Favre to Lambeau Field is probably the most anticipated event of Week 8 of the 2009 NFL Season I am dubbing Week 8 of the 2009 NFL Season, "Homecoming Week". Every fall at high schools and colleges around the country, homecoming is a special time in autumn for old friends/family to ...

Going into tomorrow's mega-matchup between the Packers and Vikings at Lambeau Field, those Brett Favre interceptions suddenly are a lot harder to come by.

The Vikings faced the Packers less than a month ago -- 28 days to be exact -- meaning it would seem logical that some of the same shortcomings Brett Favre was able to find in his former team's defense in a 30-23 victory should still be present.

The Vikings' Adrian Peterson is arguably the best running back in football, but he has cracked the 100-yard mark just twice this season.

A lot has changed for the Green Bay Packers defense since it played against the Minnesota Vikings and quarterback Brett Favre Oct.

In a league where first downs by penalty have dropped each year since 2006, Mike McCarthy and the Packers are doing their best to buck the trend.

CLEVELAND - Armageddon II figures to have even more going for it than Armageddon I. On Sunday, Brett Favre again will be facing his old team after his play was the difference when the Green Bay Packers visited the Minnesota Vikings three weeks ago.

It has been a decade since the Green Bay Packers were able to play a full season with their secondary being run by two top-flight safeties.

The Lions finally got their first third-down conversion of the game, sort of, when the Packers' Nick Barnett was flagged for a facemaks penalty on a sack of Drew Stanton on third-and-6 from the Green Bay 26.

The NFL, however, is based on reality and although Stanton was able to generate some offense, he wasn't able to get the Lions into the end zone and Detroit suffered its first shutout since 2001.

Like a child unwilling to share, the Green Bay Packers held on to the football for an inordinate amount of time Sunday afternoon against the Detroit Lions.

Wide receiver Calvin Johnson is inactive and rookie Matthew Stafford will serve as the emergency third quarterback for the Detroit Lions' game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday.

Almost a decade later, Donald Driver isn't sure what would have come of his then-fledgling career had he gotten serious about a different sport."I don't know," Driver said Friday.Driver was coming off his rookie season as a wide receiver with the Green Bay Packers in 1999 when he considered trying out for the U.S. track and field team in the high ...