The Green Bay Packers (6-3) started the season on a six-game winning streak and now they are in the middle of a three-game slide. They face the red-hot Minnesota Vikings (7-2), the NFC North's new leaders, in a divisional battle at the TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday.
Green Bay looked invincible in their first six games of the season when all of the sudden, after a bye in Week 7, they came back to the field playing lackadaisically and out of focus.
They now lost three straight games with the last one an embarrassing 18-16 defeat in the hands of lowly squad Detroit Lions at their own Lambeau Field last Sunday, as per Yahoo Sports.
Meanwhile, the Vikings overtook the Packers as the new leader of their division following a five-game winning roll. They beat the Oakland Raiders, 30-14, last Sunday at the O.co Coliseum as former league MVP Adrian Peterson ran for 203 yards and a touchdown, via CBS Local.
Minnesota's secret is their underrated defense, who now leads the league in points allowed per game at 17.1. It is projected that Green Bay would be their next victim to extend their winning run to six.
Prediction: Vikings win, 24-14.
Green Bay Packers starting lineup
Offense: A. Rodgers (QB), Starks (RB), Kuhn (FB), Cobb (WR1), J. Jones (WR2), R. Rodgers (TE), Bakhtiari (LT), Sitton (LG), Linsley (C), Lang (RG), Bulaga (RT)
Defense: D. Jones (DE), Raji (NT), Daniels (DT), Neal (OLB), Matthews (ILB), Palmer (ILB), Peppers (OLB), Randall (CB1), Hayward (CB2), Burnett (SS), Hyde (FS)
Minnesota Vikings starting lineup
Offense: Bridgewater (QB), Peterson (RB), Line (FB), Wallace (WR1), Diggs (WR2), Rudolph (TE), Kalil (LT), Fusco (LG), Berger (C)¸ Harris (RG), Clemmings (RT)
Defense: Robison (DE), Joseph (DT), Floyd (DT), Griffen (DE), Barr (OLB), Watts (MLB), Greenway (OLB), Rhodes (CB1), Newman (CB2), Sendejo (SS), Smith (FS)