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McCain, Franken spar over Thursday Night Football
A month into the season he still wasn’t on a team.
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If Thursday night’s game between the Vikings and Cardinals was a playoff preview, then we’re in for a doozy in January.
The 35-year-old veteran of 14 National Football League seasons helped a whole bunch Thursday night.
“I hope they learned that if we fight and play with a chip on our shoulder, we fight and we give the kind of effort that we did [Thursday], when we have a chance to be a good football team”, coach Mike Zimmer said.
Bridgewater moved the Vikings to the 31-yard line, well within the range of Blair Walsh. What happened next was every coach’s worst nightmare: Dwight Freeney broke away and sacked Bridgewater, resulting in a stripped ball and fumble that the Cardinals recovered, effectively ending the tight matchup. That configuration would allow Smith to stay near the box, where he can impact the game as a blitzer and run defender, because Newman has the speed and savvy to prevent big plays as the last line of defense, something that Sendejo struggled with. The Vikings are now 8-5, holding one of two NFC Wild Card spots. “That’s what we brought him here to get pressure on the plays he plays”.
“Calais played the way he’s supposed to play”, Arians said. We got to the Super Bowl four times, Bob.
“I’m definitely going to get as healthy as I can”, Johnson said. “But I had that clock running off in my head, was getting ready to throw the ball out of bounds and the guy just hit me from behind”.
Chandler Catanzaro’s 47-yard field goal with 1:23 for the winning score as Arizona (11-2) won its seventh in a row.
Walsh booted a 54-yard field goal with 12:15 remaining in the game to cut the Cardinals’ lead to 20-13, then the Vikings tied the score again with an impressive 11-play, 88-yard drive that ended with a 7-yard touchdown pass from Bridgewater to underutilized wide receiver Mike Wallace before the Cardinals countered. Adrian Peterson got his wish for more carries, but could only come up with 69 yards on 23 totes. Michael Floyd just had his fourth 100-yard receiving game in five games, and seems to be peaking at the ideal moment.
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If you believe in moral victories, the young, upswinging Vikings hung tough with one of the NFL’s best teams, were thisclose to tying the game in the final seconds, and QB Teddy Bridgewater bounced back to have one of his sharper games as pro. After Catanzaro connected on a 23-yarder at the start of the fourth, Arizona had a 20-10 lead. Dwight Freeney had a lot to do with that, as he made the game-clinching sacks and forced fumble with second left in the game and the Vikings in position to at least tie the game. Fitzgerald also dropped a sure touchdown pass in the end zone. Minnesota was demolished by the Seahawks in their last appearance, while Arizona tallied another win against the Rams in Week 13.