Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packer are in disarray after losing three consecutive games, while the Minnesota Vikings are climbing strong. They also hold opponents to 336.6 yards per game. Minnesota owns five straight victories on the season, which is the second longest current streak in the NFC behind the Carolina Panthers. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that professional athletes have lives away from the field, and you never know what could be going on in their personal lives.
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Matthews, who plays outside and inside, could see a lot more time in the middle to help defend against Peterson. At home and coming off over a month’s straight worth of wins, the Vikings have an X-factor that Green Bay will have a hard time stopping: Adrian Peterson.
Rodgers’ placement on the injury report is his first of the season, but it didn’t stop him from throwing during the walk-through portion of practice open to the media, which he wouldn’t be doing if his injury were serious.
“I was able to make cuts at the line but when it came to opening up and bursting down field I didn’t feel as comfortable with it”, Eddie Lacy said. I felt good today.
Aaron Rodgers engineered a fourth-quarter drive that finished with a touchdown toss to Richard Rodgers, cementing a Packers’ 27-17 win over a Seattle Seahawks team that had given Rodgers and the Packers trouble in recent seasons.
Packers’ country is full of injury listed in starting offensive lineman except for center Corey Linsley. According to Weston Hodkiewicz of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Rodgers has a shoulder injury that limited him in practice Wednesday. Rodgers agreed with that assessment, though he said he was not concerned about his availability for Sunday’s crucial game at Minnesota. “We had three (points against Detroit) and then a bunch of punts in a row”. Through the same nine-game mark in 2012, when he almost broke Eric Dickerson’s single-season record and ran off with the NFL MVP award, Peterson had 957 yards.
Other key players struggling for fitness are linebacker Clay Matthews who is battling knee and ankle issues, alongside left tackle David Bakhtiari (knee), left guard Josh Sitton (knee) and defensive Micah Hyde (hip).
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