“I have not said yet that he’s playing”.
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Blair Walsh, the Vikings kicker who missed the 27-yard potential game-winning field goal against the Seahawks yesterday, has been the talk of social media. “I feel like I missed the kick – that’s what I feel like”. “I worked real hard to get to a place where I was very consistent for this team all year”. “Because you take things for granted – I’ve joked around and said, ‘Yeah I done put the ball on the turf, but how many have I lost?” We cant figure out how he didnt get it. So they went quite a bit faster. Seattles unlikely victory was the result largely of its defense that kept Adrian Peterson wrapped up twice this season and forced a critical fumble by Peterson early in the fourth quarter.
So the Seahawks are entering this week of preparation for the weekend’s divisional playoff game at top-seeded Carolina in the same spot with Lynch they were at this time last week: hopeful he can play for the first time since November 15 – but with no clear indication whether he will or won’t, waiting on how he responds to practices. “That’s going to be my number one objective going into this offseason”, he said.
The wind-chill factor at kickoff was minus-25 degrees. Seattle moved to 8-2 without Lynch this season.
“It was brutal conditions”, Greenway said. Wilson did the only thing he could do, which was try to make the best out of a bad situation, and managed to pick up the ball and scramble before finding Tyler Lockett for a 35-yard gain setting up first-and-goal. Wilson found throwing deep particularly challenging. Cam Newton completed 21 of 26 passes for 293 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Panthers.
“Grilled a few burgers, had a few drinks, a little ‘antifreeze, ‘ ” he said. “We’ll just use all of the time that we have available”. It was a good snap, actually…. “Obviously, I saw the replays”.
“But it’s no excuse”, Wilson said. They’ll have another week of practice and determine if Lynch can play. So instead of moving on to play the Panthers, the Vikings are done for the year.
Kaeding’s postseason struggles continued in 2006, when he missed his first field goal at home in two years on a 54-yard attempt that would’ve tied a game against New England.
But Kam Chancellor yanked the ball out of Peterson’s arm as he fell to the turf, and Ahtyba Rubin recovered. “When it’s me out there, I’m just focused on what I’ve got to do to put a good kick out there”. He signed a contract extension during training camp of this season and, after a rough preseason, he turned things around in the regular season and wound up making more field goals than any other kicker in the National Football League during the regular season.
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The one damaging play from the offense came on the drive immediately following the Seahawks’ only touchdown. Blair Walsh is done warming up, and the field goal unit heads onto the field for an all-but-routine 27 yard attempt. A dejected Zimmer covered his face. After passing their first road playoff test against the Vikings, another long flight, this time to Charlotte, is next. “These same idiots who want to sit there and remind me of my one miss don’t know and probably don’t think of everything in the big picture but I’ve not missed a field goal in the playoffs since”.
