Dwight Freeney stripped the ball from Teddy Bridgewater with 5 seconds to play to deprive the Vikings a chance at the tying field goal and the Arizona Cardinals clinched a playoff berth with a 23-20 victory over Minnesota on Thursday night. He said safety Harrison Smith (hamstring), linebacker Anthony Barr (groin) and defensive tackle Linval Joseph (foot) are all in the same vicinity in the recovery process, though where exactly that is wasn’t revealed.
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Minnesota got a 44-yard field goal from Walsh with two seconds left in the second quarter to send the Vikings into the visitor’s locker room tied at 10-10.
Quarterbacks Carson Palmer and Teddy Bridgewater were outstanding as each passed for over 300 yards, at least one touchdown and no interceptions.
Let’s check out a few of the notable players and stats from this one so we can figure out why things played out the way they did.
Arizona tight end Jermaine Gresham was inactive as a game-time decision due to a knee injury. It wasn’t a LOLVikings moment; just a microcosmic reminder that Minnesota isn’t as good at football as the Cardinals are right now. Arizona just had to take one kneel-down after the turnover to run off the clock.
The Cardinals are now 25-1 under coach Bruce Arians when they out-rush their opponents.
When Arians was hired by the Cardinals in 2013, he convinced Moore to come out of retirement to help with the offense. He became the first player with multiple 4,000-yard seasons for the Cardinals.
Moore joined the Steelers staff in 1977 and worked there until 1989, then worked for the Vikings from 1990-1993, the Lions from 1994-1996, the Saints in 1997, the Colts from 1998-2010, the Jets in 2011 and the Titans in 2012. I’m proud of my football team, I’m proud to be an Maerican. and most of all… Diggs saw 7 targets but only managed to catch 2 of them for 12 yards.
Minnesota exposed the weakness of the Cardinals defense and the defense now needs to make sure the Eagles don’t do the same in ten days. Brown would take that potato toss 65 yards to score, putting the Red Birds back in the lead at 10-7.
On the Cardinals second possession, John Brown caught two passes for 73 yards; both crucial plays.
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This year has been one of Fitzgerald’s best. Are the Patriots too injured to win a Super Bowl? They looked like a playoff team. The amount paid for the 30 percent will be a lot larger than the $85.5 million Taylor paid to buy the team from Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner in 1994. He lost the ball when Deone Bucannon brought him down at the 15. Mason, who coached the Gophers from 1997-2006, turned it down out of loyalty to his coaching staff. After a heartbreaking loss to Arizona, they are now 1-4 against teams with a winning record. He had four tackles, three of them for losses, registered a sack, had four quarterback hits and recovered a fumble.
