"The 2011 Green Bay Packers are not your typical 7-0 team, or at least what you would expect a 7-0 team to be.

They showed it again when they ground out a 33-27 victory over an undermanned but overachieving Minnesota Vikings team at the Metrodome on Sunday. Coming in at 6-0, the Packers were supposed to walk all over the 1-5 Vikings, who were missing five starters, including both cornerbacks.

But hardly anything coach Mike McCarthy's team does is easy.

"If you're trying to look at it that way, yeah," fullback John Kuhn said. "But in my opinion, 7-0 is 7-0. If you get wins, that's all that counts. When things aren't easy, that's kind of when we thrive, that's almost when we play our best football.

"I feel we have a lot of room for improvement, scary as that may seem at 7-0. We're happy going into the bye.""