What do you get when a shootout is one sided because our defense shuts down the Houston offense?

That would be shooting fish in a barrel.

While I'd love to see it, I can't consider that a reasonable expectation. These teams are not identical, but both share some keys for winning this game:

1) whoever can establish the run game opens up their passing attack. I think the most likely result is both teams accomplish that.

2) turnovers are huge. I can't give either team the edge.

3) Our red zone offense is the major divergence from this parity, with the solution being JL10 to continue to throw with all his cleats in the ground. While he doesn't have the frozen rope of Favre that broke fingers of everyone he targeted, he launched serious ZIP last Sunday that exceeded anything I'd seen from him before. Talking about 99 yard bombs through the air is of course hyperbole, but avoiding red zone offense entirely is not necessarily a negative. Same goes for long sustained drives of 10+ plays. If they can get a TD in 3 plays that's ok, and rotating players on defense becomes that much more important. This team is now built for that!

This describes a football game, between two really good teams. Forecast calls for 43% humidity at kickoff with 68°, only rising to 73. A beautiful day for a win. I was happy to see GB not get blown out by SF the last time they met, and they wound up having the lead most of the game and were "in it" right up to the last two minutes. Doing that this Sunday would be just as impressive. This seems like "playoff energy" to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if each team scores over 50. Nobody scoring over 40 is of course more likely, therefore the final score should be 24 - 42, Packers.

GPG!