MONDAY NIGHT GAME Balanced Packers offense plays host to Philadelphia

Ahman Green has blossomed into the NFL's leading rusher.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Mike Flanagan won't sing his own praises. The din of others' compliments rings loud enough.
The Green Bay Packers' center anchors a line that has paved the way for running back Ahman Green to gain an NFL-best 1,152 yards from scrimmage and allowed Brett Favre to be sacked just seven times, second fewest in the league.
"He is the best center in the league," said Favre, whose guides Green Bay into a crucial showdown with Philadelphia tonight.
With Flanagan anchoring the best offensive line in Favre's dozen seasons in Green Bay, the Packers have morphed into a balanced offense. They can hurt opponents on the ground and through the air with equal effectiveness.
They haven't had a 100-yard receiver yet, but no fewer than eight players have caught passes in each of Green Bay's last four games.
And backup running backs Najeh Davenport (7.1) and Tony Fisher (6.1) are averaging more yards than Green (5.1) per carry.
"They're very well-balanced," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "They have a very good run game with Ahman and then they're feeding off that with play action and doing a heck of a job with it.
"Brett's still very mobile and moves around outside the pocket and still throws with great accuracy. They've got a nice little package."
Pick your poison
It's the classic pick-your-poison proposition with Green and Favre.
"Well, I think you'd better shoot for shutting both of them down," Reid said. "If you shoot for one, then the other one is going to hurt you. So, you'd better come with a complete package."
And in defensive coordinator Jim Johnson's schemes, that usually means a bevy of blitzes.
"They don't blitz every down, but they show it more than most and they don't do the typical kind of stuff," said Flanagan, who is responsible for the line calls to adjust to the blitzes.
Favre said if Flanagan won't talk about having a Pro Bowl year, he can certainly let his play do his talking for him tonight.
"I think Flanny's proven himself, but this is a test not only for him, but for all of us," Favre said. "He's been up to the task week in and week out, but this one is a little different."
Winters' legacy
Flanagan has emerged as such a force in his eighth season that the Packers cut 17-year veteran Frank Winters, Favre's best friend in football, last summer.
But Winters' legacy lives on in Flanagan.
"I always look at the center position as the quarterback-quarterback relationship," Favre said. "He doesn't throw the ball, but he has to be thinking what I'm thinking.
"And I have to trust that if an extra guy comes that I don't see, he's got my back and directed the line in the right direction. And he has done a great job of that."
Although Flanagan refuses to talk about himself or his chances of making his first Pro Bowl, offensive line coach Larry Beightol, like Favre, can't say enough about him.
"He has been as good as any guy I've ever coached at that position in 19 years in the National Football League," Beightol said. "He has done a fabulous, fabulous job. It's hard for me to believe anybody playing that position is playing it better than he is."