Earlier today, the folks at ProFootballTalk.com brought up the topic of why Vikings quarterback Brett Favre fired a deep pass to Bernard Berrian on a third-and-10 play Monday night with Minnesota holding a 10-point lead and Green Bay out of timeouts. The ball was at the Packers 45-yard line and there were 3 minutes, 27 seconds to go when Favre threw the pass and while Berrian caught it he was out of bounds when he did so.

The Vikings brought Chris Kluwe on to punt and Green Bay began a drive with 3:10 left at its own 18-yard line. The Packers moved down the field and got a 31-yard field goal from Mason Crosby. The point at PFT was why didn't the Vikings just run time off the clock instead of throwing a pass? What if the Packers had gotten the field goal and then recovered the onside kick, something that didn't happen.

Vikings coach Brad Childress, asked about the situation today, said: "It was a shot to take a chance. Thinking that they are playing the run and they had no timeouts at that point and time. We could have run it and taken more seconds off the clock and we had discussion on how to do that. We thought that we would get after that guy and we did in fact complete it. But unfortunately [it was] a long foul ball."