Two plays after the completion, Wilson threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin, cutting the Vikings’ lead to 9-7.
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There probably isn’t much that can pick up the Vikings kicker right now, not after he missed a 27-yard field goal attempt in the closing seconds of Minnesota’s 10-9 wild-card loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The Packers finished that game without both of their starting offensive tackles, and David Bakhtiari has missed the past three games on the left side with a sprained left ankle. But while the prospect of playing and coaching in those conditions would make most shudder, for Carroll it made the experience all the more exhilarating.
“There’s enough football left in me to play another season and try to go out differently”, Greenway said.
“But you just have to be ready for the challenge”. So the whole thing was fun. Seattle’s season seemed done and dusted when the Vikings lined up for a chip-shot 27-yard field goal with 26 seconds to play in the game.
Blair Walsh is the face of the Minnesota Vikings’ playoff failure, but he shouldn’t be in the picture alone.
Walsh, who overcame preseason kicking problems to convert 34 of 39 field-goal attempts during the regular season, botched what would have been the winning field goal.
“I thought he played really tough”, Carroll said of Michael.
“I don’t know. I can’t tell you”. “We get paid to kick a ball between two posts, let’s put that into perspective”.
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: The Seahawks burned all three of their first-half timeouts early in the game, the result of some miscommunication and difficulties getting the plays into Wilson.
The Seattle Seahawks were lucky to escape the frigid Wild Card game with a victory that will henceforth be known in Seattle as the Minnesota Miracle. The rest of the National Football League is 6-41.
-There may not be a less indicative stat line than the one compiled Sunday by Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett.
I just wanted to give a shoutout to Blair Walsh. “That’s what we’re talking about, that’s how we hope to be”. “So we’ll have to wait and see”.
“It was a really hard position”, Carroll said. We win as a team, we lose as a team. Whatever it takes, the offense or the defense, to get it going again. Plays going in favor of Seattle in those big moments are what made the difference. And the Seahawks were suddenly celebrating an improbable win, not unlike their rally past Green Bay in the NFC championship game previous year.
Adrian Peterson finished his ninth year with the Minnesota Vikings, his personal victory total in the playoffs still stuck on one. Peterson, the NFL’s rushing champion, was held to just 45 yards on 23 carries.
The onus is on the defense, though, against a prolific Cardinals team that averaged more than 30 points per game behind the finest of Carson Palmer’s 13 seasons in the NFL.
Carroll said there was no setback, simply Lynch telling the Seahawks staff he didn’t have the confidence he needed to run with his style in a playoff game.
“I knew what happened, but you know, when you don’t have control over it, it’s just nerve-racking to watch”, Gostkowski said. The one time we make a mistake he gets 12 yards.
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“I was at least proud of the way he stood up there and took it on his shoulders”. It was play after play after play of continuing to do the right thing. That’s how it goes.
