He looked good during the week and did some really good stuff, but we’ll just use all the time we have available.
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But when he met the media around 2 p.m. PST, following the team’s practice he said: “I have not said yet that he’s playing”. I know that’s been out there.
Turned out he’d know before they finished Friday.
Pete Carroll expressed concern during Friday’s press conference that his star running back might not make it and those fears were confirmed a few hours later when Lynch reportedly informed the team that he simply was not yet ready to play.
Doug Hendrickson, Lynch’s agent, said Saturday that was due to “a little tweak” that Lynch had suffered in his surgically repaired abdomen.
“That’s completely wrong”, Hendrickson told The Seattle Times of Irvin’s report. Cousins, meanwhile, soared, breaking team passing records and setting a league mark for completion percentage at home while leading Washington to four victories in a row down the stretch.
This is the first meeting in the playoffs between the Vikings and the Seahawks. That would rank with the best running backs in the National Football League over a full season.
While Wilson is putting up awesome numbers, he is being aided by the stellar play of three wide receivers.
Bring it on, Zimmer said.
We hope that you bundled up today, it is going to be a cold one.
The weekend story was the latest development in what’s been a forgettable year for Lynch. The Seahawks are favored to pick up the win in this one, even being on the road and in what are expected to be supremely cold temperatures. He had abdominal surgery November 25 in Philadelphia and then spent much of the next month or so in the Bay Area working out with MMA trainer Tareq Azim.
Michael and Bryce Brown have been filling in for Lynch and injured running back Thomas Rawls for the last six games of the regular season.
The scary part for the Vikings is that Wilson in the past was only getting warmed up once he started the playoffs.
Historic cold? Just another (ice) chip to put on the shoulders of a Seahawks team already set on doing what record books say probably can’t be done. “That’s all there was to it”.
Baldwin and Wilson will not have a safety blanket in the shape of Marshawn Lynch returning to the backfield but, with Beastmode having missed nine games through injury, rust was clearly going to be a factor so Seattle would have had to get most of the job done without him anyway.
In that regular season season contest on December 6, the Seahawks racked up 433 yards of offense, including 173 on the ground; possessed the ball more than half the game; and converted just under 70 percent of their third down opportunities.
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With temperatures forecast to be around -17 Celsius in Minneapolis, the Seahawks are preparing for a cold majority have never experienced. That’s why guys don’t’ worry or stress about Marshawn. Sunday’s matchup against the Packers was one of the best games I have ever seen from him, and Pro Football Focus agrees with me.
