And if Sunday’s game is any indication, opposing offenses will have one heck of a time communicating at U.S. Bank Stadium, as the decibel level rose beyond risky on numerous occasions. Evidently, they didn’t listen.
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Late Sunday night, after Rodgers was central to Green Bay’s inept performance on offense in its 17-14 loss at the Minnesota Vikings, the veteran quarterback tried to calm the early-season concerns out of Packers Nation.
“It’s hard in this stadium”, Boone said.
The Vikings had three false starts on offensive linemen and one on the punt team.
Said Packers center JC Tretter said Robison “made a good play on the line of scrimmage” from the backside defensive end spot.
“He certainly has not played at the level we’re used to seeing”, he said.
“We’re not going to overreact”, said Rodgers.
No Minnesota defenders, though, had anything bad to say about the crowd noise. Later in the third, pressure by Everson Griffen on third-and-long near midfield separated Rodgers from the ball but cornerback Captain Munnerlyn failed to pounce on it. “Fans showed up to open up this stadium”. “I think this is a pretty resilient football team”.
“I was the swing tackle, so if anything happened to anybody, I knew I would be the next man up”, Clemmings said.
Still, the Packers are faced with trying to remedy an offence that has been out of sorts in their first two games.
The Vikings already have lost quarterback Teddy Bridgewater for the season with a knee injury, although he has been replaced by a veteran starter in Sam Bradford, acquired September 3 from Philadelphia.
Mike Zimmer met with the media on Monday afternoon following the Vikings’ 17-14 win over the Packers Sunday night. He needed crutches to exit U.S. Bank Stadium. Watching from the sideline, Hill was thrilled. “I thank the coaches for trusting me and putting me in that situation”. And past year, the Panthers sacked him five times on Sunday Night Football.
“We’re going through the evaluation process”, Zimmer said. Time, will indeed, tell. Minnesota’s new starting QB Sam Bradford led the team to its first victory of the season on Sunday without Peterson for most of the second half. Zimmer told Bradford and Hill during the week who would start, but neither has divulged what day that was.
Peterson, 16th on the NFL’s all-time rushing list, has only 50 yards on 31 attempts this season. Bradford marched the Vikings to a game-tying touchdown while showing both a willingness to trust his receivers and a deep-ball accuracy, both of which Teddy Bridgewater lacked a season ago. It was very impressive. Releasing Josh Sitton before the season didn’t help matters, and you can see the problems manifesting against a team with a tough defense like the Vikings’.
Hill sought to make it a bit less hard.
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“We’re going to keep plugging away and keep doing our best to find a way to win”, Zimmer said. “The quarterback groups I’ve been around, we’ve always done it together, film study and things like that”.
