To find out how to watch the NFL Week 11 Green Bay Packers Vs. Minnesota Vikings rivalry game live online, see the streaming link at in the final paragraph of this article. Jones topped 100 yards receiving after the drive and put the Packers up comfortably, 27-13 at the beginning of the fourth.
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On a folding table inside the Vikings’ locker room, the post-game snacks were spread out and untouched. A week of stinging criticism from outside the organization and a fair amount of soul-searching from within produced a team-wide attitude adjustment the Packers needed to wrest control of the division back from the Vikings.
Teddy Bridgewater threw one of his best passes of the season. Rawls scored on a 2-yard run in the first quarter and added a 31-yard catch-and-run touchdown from Wilson in the fourth quarter to give Seattle (5-5) a 16-point lead over the 49ers (3-7).
The Seahawks improved to 5-5 to keep their wildcard hopes alive, and Rawls had a field day after being moved into the starting line-up when Marshawn Lynch was declared inactive before the game with an abdominal injury. That is never a good sign for your offense.
Rodgers was back performing the way he always has, making big plays with his arm and his feet. The Vikings are going to run the ball with Adrian Peterson and use a vicious pass rush to knock other quarterbacks around. His completion percentage for the season is just 63.3 percent, which falls below his career-worst mark of 63.6 percent his first season as a starter in 2008.
These teams are very likely closer in ability than their records suggest, but all anyone wants to talk about is Cam Newton’s dancing. Micah Hyde tried to undercut a pass thrown to Kyle Rudolph.
“I was warm”, Jones told reporters after the game. Well, it may have worked, as Rudolph was Teddy’s favorite target on Sunday against the Packers. Jones had just five catches for 89 yards and no touchdowns in the past four games.
It’s a short week as the Packers play in primetime on Thanksgiving night. “(He) got us out of a lot of trouble. Minnesota’s defense routinely bailed out the Packers with penalties and failed to produce a single turnover. The Vikings are in the top ten in total and pass defense.
After missing the game-winner against the Lions last week, Crosby said he decided the most important thing was for him not to change a thing.
Terence Newman earned defensive player of the week honors this week after his two-interception performance against the Raiders.
The Packers had been held winless ever since former Bears coach Mike Ditka donned a Green Bay Packers sweater in a McDonald’s advertisement in late October.
Offensive tackle Matt Kalil was especially problematic. Asiata is questionable with a quad injury. Kalil struggled last season when he was injured, and had offseason surgery on both knees-and the difference in a healthy Kalil has been on display all season. He has a tough position to play even when healthy, so hopefully, he gets healthy quick.
“We knew coming into this game that they hadn’t sacked the quarterback in the past three games that they’ve lost, so we knew that was going to be one of the points of emphasis, that those guys are fired up”, Bridgewater said. They didn’t follow that up with a great performance.
Crosby connected from 42, 47, 40, 42 and 52 yards.
Thirty minutes after the game ended, the Vikings continued to take questions as to whether they can handle winning, or whether this was all too new for a team that is so young. Dalton has won 23 road games and has gone 21-12-3 ATS away from home in his first five season in the league.
Instead of wilting under the opponents pressure as the Packers had done the last three weeks, they showed fight. That enabled the Packers to extend a drive and score a touchdown. The Packers looked more like themselves, individually and collectively, than they had in weeks. Bridgewater left the game momentarily after taking a hard hit to the ground from Packers linebacker Mike Neal.
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You know who didn’t mind Rodgers not throwing 61 times Sunday? “We kind of took a big step back”. The two longtime rivals meet Sunday in Minneapolis.
