“It’s probably going to be the last barbecue of the year until probably March”.
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The loss means Seattle will take on the Carolina Panthers in the NFC divisional round next Sunday.
RENTON, Wash. (AP) – Despite all of his rapid optimism, there came a point in the NFC wild-card game where doubt creeped into Pete Carroll’s mind. The Saints ultimately won the game.
Vikings fans certainly have a lot to be proud of with the way their team played, I agree.
“We just needed a game like this to get our mojo back and get our confidence going”, said Rodgers, who had been under close scrutiny during his team’s regular-season offensive struggles. So, yes, the Seahawks (11-6) would absolutely be better off with him starting in their backfield Sunday at Carolina (15-1) instead of hanging out again on the opposite coast this weekend. Though earlier in the 3 QTR, Walsh had kicked a successful 43-yard field goal with the laces in. “So that’s it. He took off and left”.
“That’s called grace”, Chancellor said. Seattle will play at Carolina for the fourth time since the 2012 season.
“My mindset is just to come back and be the best you guys have seen just overall and for this organization as well”, Peterson said during locker cleanout day Monday at the Vikings’ practice facility, the sting still fresh from Sunday’s 10-9 loss to Seattle in the first round of the playoffs. Go ahead. But now you take it outside and go to the extent of sending (death wishes)?
“It was so quick, I have no idea what happened”, Walsh said.
“I’ve joked around and said, ‘Yeah, I done put the ball on the turf, but how many have I lost?” He can’t be trusted with the ball, they said.
“He really didn’t have the confidence that he would be able to go”, Carroll said Monday of the NFL’s leading rusher and touchdown maker from 2011 until this season, the first injury-filled one of the 29-year-old Lynch’s nine seasons in the league. Tight end Luke Willson, who missed the game because of a concussion, is expected back. And the Seahawks were suddenly celebrating an improbable victory, not unlike their rally past Green Bay in the NFC Championship game a year ago.
“It’s a chip shot, he’s gotta make it”, Zimmer said, insisting that his team had done enough for victory. “He’s got to make it”.
In the late Sunday game, the Packers’ 35-18 win over the Redskins averaged 38.8 million viewers on Fox for the biggest audience in television since the Super Bowl.
For all their skills, experience and swagger, though, the combination of these conditions and a well-prepared, embarrassed-by-the-previous-performance Vikings team proved to be quite the challenge. He strolled out for the coin flip in a Vikings cap and a purple short-sleeved polo shirt, looking ready for a round of golf.
The wind-chill factor at kickoff was minus-25 degrees.
Every mistake and break was magnified in a game like this, and the Vikings benefited for the majority of the first three quarters.
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Punter Jon Ryan had to pick up a low snap on Seattle’s first possession, and, avoiding a potential block, tried to run up the middle before being upended by Jason Trusnik well shy of the first down. I’m the only one who didn’t do his job. Headed the same direction toward the open end of the stadium in the third quarter, Wilson overthrew Chase Coffman, and Trae Waynes intercepted the deflected pass to set the Vikings up for another field goal. Cliff Avril’s roughing-the-passer penalty gifted Minnesota 15 yards on that drive. Through the air, Baldwin led the efforts with 42 yards on five receptions, including the game’s only touchdown.
