Pumped for today. AP should have a big game against a shaky Lions run-D. Hopefully Ponder keeps it up as well; he's been really impressive so far.
Defense should be interesting; Minny still sucks against the pass and it will be interesting to see how the Megatron match-up plays out. Even if they manage to contain him, the Vikes still have a history of getting torn apart by TEs, so Pettigrew could have a big game. Burleson could as well, playing against his old team.
I was just checking out some advanced NFL statistics, and Harvin's numbers are really impressive. He's been thrown to 32 times and has caught 27 of them (84.4%). That's by far the best percentage of passes caught by any player that has been thrown to more than 15 times, and only Michael Crabtree, Calvin Johnson and Mike Wallace come relatively close out of receivers that have been targeted a significant amount of times (Crabtree - 19/24 (79.2%), Johnson - 24/31 (77.4%), Wallace - 17/22 (77.3%)). He's the main reason why Ponder, and the Vikings in general, have been so successful.
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