KICKOFF SUNDAY: What To Watch For!

Today's game will be intriguing in that Brett Favre still needs to build his chemistry with the receivers, John Sullivan and Phil Loadholt will have their first regular season test against a live defense and Brady Quinn will do his best to pick apart a stout Vikings secondary that only a few short years ago was woefully unsuccessful at stopping the pass.

But that's not all.

Here are a few "games within the game" that should create a smile or two for the Vikings faithful:

1) Rookie Center Alex Mack will make his NFL debut against these fellas:



2) Rob "I can't stop the run with a cement wall" Ryan has spent the last several weeks trying to find a way to make sure this doesn't happen over and over again:



3) Third year left tackle Joe Thomas will do his best to stop this from becoming overly repetitious:



4) And the vaunted Vikes D will make sure there's plenty of possession time for this:



When it's all said and done, the Minnesota Vikings might face a few surprises from the Cleveland Browns, but one of those won't be a zero in our "W" column.

-Mike Bullock