Packers turn attention to title game against Vikings

“Rick (Spielman, Vikings general manager) said to me, ‘You know you’ve been flexed.’ I said, ‘Well, you know, it’s hard to miss the thing on both ends of the scoreboard they’re playing the Sunday Night Football thing, ‘” Zimmer said after his win against the Giants. Then after the Packers answered with their first score of the day, Jerraud Powers returned another Rodgers fumble for another touchdown by the Arizona defense. Mike Daniels intercepted a Carson Palmer screen pass and gave the Packers excellent field position at the Arizona 15-yard line. It’s the best winning streak that the Cards have had since 1948, when they were still based in Chicago and won 10 in a row.

McCarthy’s comment indicates Abbrederis could have lost playing time because of the dropped pass early in the game, which is something of a surprise given the wealth of drops – and subsequent lack of production – from starting receiver Davante Adams. Yesterday, the Arizona Cardinals did just that to Rodgers and the Packers offense, sacking the quarterback nine times and creating four turnovers.

“Ugly loss to a very good football team”.

Super Bowl favorites during the summer, the Packers suffered nine sacks, three fumbles, an interception and more injuries en route to a humiliating defeat in what was supposed to be a measuring stick for their readiness for the playoffs.

By the time Karim Martin leveled Rodgers, the ball popped loose, and 6-foot-4, 318-pound Cory Redding followed a convoy 36 yards for the score, it was 31-0 with 9:34 to play.

The Packers (10-5) have a half-game lead over Minnesota in the NFC North with the Vikings facing the New York Giants Sunday night.

In every way possible, Green Bay was manhandled by a superior opponent Sunday.

“This was a playoff-style game and we played bad, but we have won a lot of games here”, Rodgers said.

Below you’ll find two different possible scenarios that could play out next week and how it would affect the Vikings playoff chances if the Vikings were to lose next week…

But then came a blowout loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday and a diminished workload for Abbrederis. It means that the victor of the Week 17 match-up will win the division and the No. 3 seed in the 2016 NFC Playoffs. If the Seahawks win, the Vikings will get back-to-back trips to Green Bay. Green Bay converted several third-and-long situations and the Vikings struggled to get their offensive going early in their first meeting. “It’s a game to get more momentum”. Christian Ponder was making his last National Football League start, throwing no touchdowns and two interceptions for a 45.8 passer rating and taking six sacks in a 42-10 drubbing. Michael Floyd caught six passes for 111 yards for the Cardinals.

Nearly nothing. Scoreless for more than 2 1/2 quarters, Rodgers dumped the ball off to tailback Eddie Lacy for a 28-yard touchdown that ended the drought.

The game was close until a big reversal of fortune in the final minute of the first half.

Arizona defeated Green Bay 38-8 yesterday, but Zimmer in no way views that as a sign to relax or let guards down.

A 47-yard pass play to Floyd advanced the ball to the 33 and two more completions, plus a defensive holding call, set up Palmer’s seven-yard scoring pass to John Brown, putting Arizona ahead 17-0. He’s accurate, he scrambles around – it just kind of got out of hand.

NOTES: Freeney made an extra $300,000 in incentives with his three sacks….

MEDICAL WATCH: Strong safety Rashad Johnson (ankle) is expected to be available this week after missing two games….