Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens look ahead to Sunday afternoon’s NFC North clash that not only could affect playoff seeding, but could also have massive fantasy title game implications. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I’m really excited for Packers Vikings.
Only 2 games in the in the late window on Sunday, which is weird, um, and this is the one that you need to be locked in on.
uh, Vikings have won 8 straight games.
The Packers have won 5 of 6. when these teams met earlier in the season, it was a 3129 game.
Minnesota won it.
Green Bay has scored 30 or more points in 5 straight.
Jordan Love has thrown 8 touchdown passes, 0 interceptions over his last 5, so he’s kind of doing the same thing that he did last year.
Sam Darnold, however, 15 touchdown passes, only 1.
Interception in his last 6 games.
These guys are playing great.
Jordan Addison over like his last 6 games, if you just, if you just take that pace, and that’s, you know, that’s a third of a season, you just take that pace over a full year, it would be like 100 catches and 1400 yards.
Um, Jordan Addison is playing great and they are feeding him.
He’s seeing over 8 targets a game during that stretch, so.
He, he’s become a bit of an X factor for the, for the Vikings.
Obviously, some of the skilled players in this game are just tremendous.
We, we can never guess at which Packers receiver, uh, if any.
Uh, it is gonna go off like last week, weirdly we get a, we get a Dantavian Wicks moment, um, that was that seemingly came out of nowhere.
Christian Watson’s a little bit banged up right now.
We’ll see if he’s actually able to go, but most of the playmakers are available for this one.
It’s just an absolutely stellar game, um, that, that could very well deliver 60 total points.
I’m glad you point out how well Sam Darnold is playing right now, the 15 touchdowns over his last 6 games.
I mean, shoot, if you just look at the last.
Yeah, the last 5 games since he played the Bears in week 12, he’s getting hit like 98787 times every single week.
It’s not as if it’s just, I, I know that obviously the offensive ecosystem is great here.
There are great weapons around him.
Kevin O’Connell’s done a wonderful job, but It’s not as if it’s just a crystal clear picture from a pocket perspective, like the Vikings have had injury issues on the offensive line, especially as the season has worn on here, and Donald has continued to play well, uh, under those circumstances, and I think he’s played.
You can almost like feel him and see him letting his hair down as the season goes on, and the more confidence he gets in this system.
I almost feel a little bit of regret that Donald won’t get to play for this team for a long time, and he might go to some, you know, dumpster fire like the Raiders or whatever, cause this has been a really enjoyable product, but my instinct is still that that Arnold will will not be with this team next year.