On Sunday, with the Seattle Seahawks up 10-9 on the Minnesota Vikings with just 30 seconds left in their wild card playoff game, the Vikings lined up for a 27-yard field goal that everybody assumed would send them through to the next round to face the Carolina Panthers. After the game, superstar running back Adrian Peterson acknowledged his own poor performance and claimed responsibility for the loss himself. Peterson, who has had fumble problems all season, lost one after a catch at the Minnesota 40, setting up Steven Hauschka’s 46-yard field goal with 8:04 remaining that put Seattle up 10-9. Even so, the Seattle Seahawks will take it. At this point, a win is a win, according to Sports Illustrated.
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Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll makes a call during the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Glendale, Ariz.
“Having the laces out is going to give you better ball contact hitting the leather”, Locke said. Made it kind of fun. “I worked real hard to get to a place where I was very consistent for this team all year”. Wilson has been the game’s most effective signal-caller for the past two months and, as Cowboys and Steelers fans will tell you, has shown a flair for delivering in the clutch.
The Seahawks also beat the Panthers in Seattle in last season’s divisional playoffs, so this is a rematch of that playoff game as well. “You have kicked game winners before and you will make game winners in the future”, Burleson wrote alongside a snap of Walsh.
BABY, IT’S C-C-C-C-C-OLD OUTSIDE: Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, a native of Los Angeles who played at Stanford, was confident the cold wouldn’t bother him until, oh, pregame warmups when he felt his contact lenses and eyelashes start to freeze.
“We were still talking like something good was going to happen, all the way through the kick”, Carroll said.
“I should have just double arm-wrapped it”, Peterson said.
Only three times, excluding the game Sunday against the Seahawks, did he finish with fewer than 60 yards rushing.
“That’s the one thing I always thought, I’m not going to allow this one mistake be all I’m remembered for”. It was play after play after play of continuing to do the right thing.
On top of that though, the defense played a tough game. Joe Cardona has done a great job snapping. “It’s really the discipline that they’ve played with”, Carroll said about why Seattle was able to shut Peterson down twice. Carroll said they had issues with the headsets and communication during the game, perhaps because it was so cold.
-Linebacker Jason Trusnik, a journeyman signed during the regular season for depth and special teams purposes, played in the first playoff game of his nine-year, 117-game career on Sunday. But that was about to change when Seahawks QB Russell Wilson threw a three-yard touchdown to receiver Doug Baldwin. “I don’t know – you’d have to ask them, we don’t know, but at least that fact’s in there”.
“Even though he can run fast and look like he is moving (in practice), he didn’t have the confidence he could go out there and react to (defenders) and do that. There’s nothing we can do about that”.
“We lost our sequencing in there”, Carroll said.
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-Tight end Luke Willson (concussion) is expected to return this week after sitting out the past two games.
