Vikings Dominate Raiders, Ready for Packers

It also was the Vikings 10 return for a special teams touchdown under Special Teams Coordinator Mike Priefer (five kickoff returns, three punt returns and two returns of blocked punts).

He said, “We’ve learned a lot since that first game”. Our biggest deal is we got to keep stringing wins together. “The things where we don’t do it as well as we can will be learning opportunities”.

Adrian Peterson rushed for 203 yards and a touchdown, and the Vikings (7-2) won their fifth straight game.

“There were plenty of times where they took away the first read, second read”, Bridgewater said.

“We just didn’t get it done. We have to continue to work hard, continue to just ride the wave that we have now”.

Bridgewater completed 14 of 22 passes for 140 yards and a touchdown. And Peterson was able to gouge the Raiders for 203 yards and a touchdown, leaving the Raiders at a loss for how to fix the issue.

“I just have to come down with it”, Holmes said. He’s fast. He’s patient. And then when the defense gets worn down Peterson finds a crease and breaks one-famine, famine, feast.

It added up to the Raiders’ second two-game losing streak of the season and one they’ll need to quickly rebound from if they stand to get back into the playoff hunt.

Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) throws a pass against the Minnesota Vikings during the second half of an NFL football game in Oakland on Sunday, November 15, 2015.

Amari Cooper caught five passes on nine targets for 79 yards in Sunday’s 30-14 loss to Minnesota.

“When you lose, it’s tough”, Carr said. “You’ve got to rely on your foundation and what you believe in”. When the Vikings host the reeling Packers (6-3) at TCF Bank Stadium next Sunday, don’t expect the upstarts in purple to be overwhelmed by the four-time defending division champs. It doesn’t matter now. “Right now we’re just trying to compile as many wins as we can and add them up at the end of the year”. He had those two thefts in a game against a Raiders team that has 39-year-old Charles Woodson as its starting free safety. Newman is tied for 84th on the NFL’s all-time interception list. I’m not about to go insane about it. We lost a game. That effectively ended the Raiders’ hopes, but just to wrap it up in a bow, Peterson took the ball on the Vikings’ next play and went 80 yards for a touchdown. A third-year man out of Tennessee, Patterson in his rookie year for the Vikings in 2013 once ran a kickoff back 109 yards.

“A good play on their part”, Thorpe said.

“If you have a game like today, where (the offense) isn’t clicking on all cylinders, somewhere another phase of the game has to make up for it”, Woodson said.

The Vikings picked up 13 points before being briefly overtaken by Oakland. Zimmer ensures that Newman’s deficiencies – long speed chief among them – are covered up in Minnesota’s defense.

With 11,151 yards and 91 touchdowns, Peterson joined Jim Brown, another hall of famer, as the only players to rush for at least 11,000 yards and 90 touchdowns in their first 113 games.

-CB Terence Newman had his first two interceptions of the season Sunday in a victory against Oakland.

Carr then helped his team take the lead as he made a 38-yard pass to Andre Holmes who crossed the goalline to put the Raiders a point ahead. He has 39 career interceptions.

The Vikings marched to the Raiders 16, and Walsh nailed a 34-yard field goal, giving them a 23-14 lead with 3:50 left. Patterson fielded K Sebastian Janikowski’s squib kick into a stiff wind angled toward the left sideline, got a wall of blockers and turned on the jets, sprinting into the end zone. The kick return for a score was the first against Oakland since Michael Spurlock did it in the 2012 finale for San Diego.