Still, Washington has 38 sacks on the season as a team to go along with 11 interceptions and 15 fumble recoveries.
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It doesn’t sound like he has any intention of missing next Sunday’s home wild-card playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks.
“I think it’s the handling of the ball probably over a long period of time”, Carroll said. I was just laughing at them. As a result of this, one would assume that the Packers will run the ball in order to protect Aaron Rodgers and/ or give him more open space on the field to throw his receivers to the ball as well as controlling time of possession to the Green Bay Packers front four off the field.
“Coming here, it was always a fight, a dogfight”, Peterson said.
Allowing the fifth fewest points to opposing offenses, the Vikings can put up a wall against nearly any offense.
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders 30-20 Sunday evening in Oakland.
Said Cousins: “Playing at home can certainly help our ability to play at a high level, but as far as does it offset things?” A team that started 6-0 and looked to be a strong NFC contender has stumbled into the playoffs with two straight losses.
“What we do in here, that’s what matters”, said veteran kicker Mason Crosby, one of six players elected playoff captain by his teammates.
Seattle Times staff reporter Bob Condotta breaks down this week’s Seahawks playoff opponent, the Minnesota Vikings. “That drought is over”. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix leads the Packers with 100 tackles, Julius Peppers has 10.5 sacks and Damarious Randall has 14 pass deflections. And now we all get to try to analyze our way through this insane weekend of football.
“I didn’t really have any expectations”. “I don’t know, maybe”.
The Packers, meanwhile, earned three victories against winning teams that qualified for the playoffs – Seattle (Week 2), Kansas City (Week 3) and Minnesota (Week 11) – but two of those came before the Seahawks and Chiefs straightened themselves out.
Yet the Vikings still won in spite of a so-so day for the offense and some harrowing moments late on defense and special teams.
One of the Minnesota Vikings’ top defensive players saved what may have been his best performance for the final game of the regular season, and now he’s being recognized for it. After the Packers burned their second timeout, Rodgers’ end-zone pass to Jones was intercepted by Xavier Rhodes. Zimmer smiled and raised both arms in the air after Rodgers’ final pass fell incomplete. The Vikings had a total of just 242 yards, including a 41 yard run on a fake punt by Adam Thielen that set up a field goal. They received all 12 first-place votes in balloting by media members who regularly cover the NFL. A heartbreaking loss in Arizona came the following week, but then there was a 21-point win over the Chicago Bears, a 32-point win over the New York Giants, and a seven-point road win over the Green Bay Packers.
“Playoff season is here”.
VIKINGS BLUEPRINT: The offense was rather ho-hum. The running backs pounded out nine carries for 36 yards on the opening drive last Sunday.
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Teddy Bridgewater was just 10 of 19 for 99 yards, and the passing game was rendered largely ineffective. But the defense snuffed out Green Bay’s dysfunctional offense at almost every turn until the frantic fourth quarter.
