“It says a lot about our team”.
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Seattle finally got on the board when quarterback Russell Wilson found his trusty wide receiver Doug Baldwin for a 3-yard score with 11:37 left in the contest.
“We just needed a game like this to get our mojo back and get our confidence going”, Rodgers said. He believed his players should accept the conditions and deal with them.
Waynes, a first-round pick out of Michigan State, appeared in 15 regular-season games and recorded 20 tackles in 2015. “That was one play we capitalized on”.
Walsh then made two more field goals on consecutive possessions in the third quarter, one coming after a Russell Wilson pass was high and tipped by tight end Chase Coffman into the hands of Minnesota’s Trae Waynes. We did a good job in the running game, we did a good job on the quarterback.
With 1:42 left in the game, the Vikings drove deep into Seattle’s territory aided by a pass interference penalty on Kam Chancellor. “I was just trying to get away”, Wilson told reporters after the game. Jeff did his job. I picked a hell of a time to have one that I missed for the first time.
The miss is yet another chapter of postseason heartache for Viking fans still haunted by Brett Favre’s across-the-body interception in the 2009 NFC Championship and Gary Anderson’s missed 38-yard field goal in the 1998 NFC Championship.
When all seemed lost Sunday in their NFC wild-card game against the Vikings, the Seahawks convinced themselves that the seemingly impossible might happen once again.
Seattle outgained Minnesota 226-183 on the day, getting 142 yards and a touchdown from Wilson on 13-of-26 passing.
That put the Seahawks up 9-6. “But when he went back to his locker and sat down (and reported) he just didn’t feel it”, Carroll said. In the previous matchup this season between these two NFC teams, Adrian Peterson had only eight carries for 18 yards. Seattle will certainly need to win the turnover battle at Bank of America Stadium, or they will have no shot at knocking off the Carolina Panthers while on the road. “This team has a lot of fight, a lot of heart”.
Sometimes playoff football shows you something you’ve never seen before – and that you won’t soon forget. Some classless fans took to social media to harass Vikings kicker Blair Walsh, making the loss even worse by showing a very ugly side to the fan base that should not exist.
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On Sunday afternoon, the Minnesota Vikings kicker made field goals from 22, 43, and 47 yards. The Vikings wanted to make Peterson the focal point of their offense, which is why they gave him the ball on first down 16 times. His numbers in the last seven games of the season were his best numbers he’s had in his career. His status vs. the Panthers is uncertain…. Then, for the fifth time in 11 playoff games with Carroll, they erased a lead of at least that size to win.
