By the time the Seahawks boarded a plane to Minnesota, Lynch wasn’t with the team and the star running back was ruled out of Sunday’s wild-card game against the Minnesota Vikings.
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WHO: Seattle Seahawks vs. Minnesota Vikings; Green Bay Packers vs. Washington Redskins. “So I’m really happy for him”.
“I don’t know”, Carroll said sighing.
“So I have not said yet that he’s playing”.
“So we will go into it with the best mentality we can”.
“When you’re moving around you get pretty warm pretty quickly”, he said. The team declared him out for the Minnesota game while he is recovering from a concussion he got two games ago against St. Louis. But with temperatures forecast to be around zero in Minneapolis on Sunday, the Seahawks are preparing for a cold majority have never experienced with no easy way to replicate it other than standing in a storage freezer for an extended period of time.
“We got up on them because the defense was really keeping us in position to do that”, Carroll said.
“He looked really good, and he finished the week great”, Carroll said of Chancellor.
Indeed, after a 2-4 start that had some wondering if the Seahawks could make the playoffs, the Seahawks rallied to enter the postseason as one of the NFL’s hottest teams. He’s just come to work every day. “We’re encouraged by his work, and encouraged that this is, again, this would be like the first game of the year as we approach it. So we’ve been here before with him, and I think we know how to handle that”.
Aug 22, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; TCF Bank Stadium sits empty as severe weather drives the Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings and fans indoors prior to the game. Vikings RB Jerick McKinnon, who totaled 231 yards and three TDs over last three games, could be worth pickup for depth at RB or flex spot.
The Vikings would be back in 2012 with, yikes, Christian Ponder as their quarterback.
Indications all week had been that Lynch would return for the game.
“I think the people who are going to be most affected by this are the kickers”, said Derrick Brooks, the Pensacola native and Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker, who was elected Friday into the College Football Hall of Fame. On the ground, Christine Michael rushed for 107 yards in 17 attempts while Bryce Brown added 20 yards and one touchdown in 10 carries. He has thrown for 24 touchdowns and only one interception in his last seven games, but throwing might be at a premium Sunday. Their offense is very unbalanced; the Vikes rank fourth in both rushing yards (138 per game) and yards per carry (4.7), but their passing game is non existent by today’s standards.
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Tight end Chase Coffman of the Seattle Seahawks runs in an 8-yard touchdown in the first half against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium on January 3, 2016 in Glendale, Arizona.
