Now star quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers look to remain unbeaten as they hit the road for tonight’s game.
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“It’s tough. Good environment, good opponent”.
Aaron Rodgers’s Packers did not go down gently, with the quarterback looking likely to deliver a highlights reel play every time he dropped back in the pocket.
” The Packers scored a first-quarter touchdown after Adams drew a pass-interference penalty from Vikings cornerback Terence Newman”. Players emerged from a new, fireball-shooting Viking ship.
The setting may have been different, but the game was a traditional black-and-blue affair.
The cold air that blew through U.S. Bank Stadium wasn’t a sign of arctic weather arriving too soon. The biggest difference was the absence of Packers fans, who usually comprise about one-third of the audience. But the noise from the capacity crowd of 66,813 seemed to be a positive overall. The push-and-shoving match ended with a penalty against the Packers for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Well, Green Bay to Minneapolis is 278 miles, but La Crosse residents Rob Hart and Jim Eggerud are separated by just a property line. Peterson is set to get an MRI on Monday morning, according to Vikings’ head coach Mike Zimmer.
Sunday night proved the Vikings don’t need Bridgewater or Peterson to win football games, but depending on how long AP is sidelined for, this puts a ton of pressure on Minnesota’s defense and Sam Bradford to carry the weight in a season that started with Super Bowl aspirations.
The return of wide receiver Jordy Nelson and the addition of swift tight end Jared Cook was supposed to cure that, but it hasn’t happened so far. “It’s just a tough loss, and (we’re) just going to bounce back from it”. “It’s been two weeks, you know. We haven’t been able to quite find our rhythm yet, but we’ll trust the process and believe we can get the thing turned around”. Rodgers fumbled at his own 12 on the last play from scrimmage of the first quarter, but J.C. Tretter fell on it. Everson Griffen knocked the ball out the hand of a scrambling Rodgers in the third quarter, but Captain Munnerlyn whiffed on his pickup attempt. During the seven games he played in November, December and January, the 28-year-old completed 68.2 percent of his passes and posted a passer rating of 97.0, earning a fresh two-year, $35 million contract.
With starting cornerback Xavier Rhodes out due to injury, the Packers attacked young Trae Waynes (Melvin Gordon’s high school teammate in Kenosha) and the refs kept calling him for holding and pushing.
It was 4th and 2, we’re on a 12-play drive, I felt the advantage was to the offense in that particular situation. “This is the greatest platform we’ve ever had to perform”. I’m more anxious about the rotation and the health of our team tonight.
There’s always an element of luck in sports, and for the Green Bay Packers, it aided them on a few potentially game-changing plays in the first quarter of their Week 2 battle.
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History suggested the Packers would spoil the Vikings’ party Sunday night, but in the end the advantage swung to the Vikings in more ways than one.
