Winning the division would be great for players’ and coaches’ list of accomplishments, and it’d surely be good for morale in the locker room to end the regular season with a win.
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That’s it. The outcome of Seattle’s game at Arizona would have no bearing on the Seahawks’ seeding.
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“I just happened to be watching that game upstairs earlier today and the guy still looks like a surgeon to me when he throws the ball”, said Zimmer, referencing the Packers’ 38-8 loss last week to Arizona.
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With Sunday night’s disembowelment of the New York Giants, the Minnesota Vikings clinched a spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2012, but who they play-and where-has yet to be determined. In fact – though no one would want to admit this – beating the Packers might actually be bigger than the playoffs right now.
The Cardinals would hold the tiebreaker edge because of a superior conference record. “All three of them are active and good football players”, Zimmer said.
Turns out, it’s not really that important a game after all.
After two monster weeks, the bankroll took a hit last week, losing $400. So I think it’s just the old adage of, you know, the division goes through Green Bay. But knowing Zimmer’s win-first mentality and steadfast approach to his franchise, the Vikings want and need to claim the division to be satisfied.
The Packers will likely be without their starting offensive tackles again this week, but at least will not be facing a defense as strong as Arizona’s is. But it doesn’t sound as if Arians will be watching the scoreboard. “So why rest them?”
“Everybody knows how bad Ty wanted this”, said cornerback Jerraud Powers. “Character is revealed. We feel confident we can get this thing turned around”, he said. Seattle’s definitely a rivalry game, a game that we look forward to playing each and every year. “I think that’s what our guys have done”.
Thirty touchdowns to just seven interceptions with more than 3,500 yards passing entering Week 17 might be a spectacular season for any other quarterback. NY had one first down through the first 20 minutes of the game and fell behind 10-0 on a touchdown grab by tight end Kyle Rudolph on Minnesota’s first drive of the second quarter.
Of the four turnovers, two were fumbles that were scooped up for Arizona touchdowns. New England coach Bill Belichick made the decision to kick off to start the overtime and the Jets drove down the field and got the win on Ryan Fitzpatrick’s 6-yard TD pass to Eric Decker.
But the number of questions raised by results in the penultimate week of the season certainly outnumbered any answers provided. Even though the Packers have a solid quarterback like Aaron Rodgers to work with, he has some weak sides.
A facemask penalty on Arizona’s punt return Jeff Janis gave the Cardinals the ball at midfield.
-RUSH DEFENSE: B. The Packers had decent numbers, 101 yards on 26 carries, but the Cardinals did a solid job when it counted.
Mike McCarthy showed no concern with his teams ability to bounce back from Sunday’s loss. The coverage teams were solid and there were no glaring errors anywhere.
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As we saw in NFL Network’s Bruce Arians: A Football Life, the Cardinals coach is guided by a career credo of “No risk it, no biscuit”.
