Packers refocus quickly to Vikings after desert nightmare

When the 2015 National Football League schedule came out, many pointed to the Week 17 showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale as a sort of NFC West Championship Game. “I have confidence in those guys and myself”, he added. “We don’t want to start a precedent now”. “After we got beat by Seattle and the Green Bay game, the mentality of our team has changed a little bit for the better in my opinion”. And then on Sunday, they absorbed a 38-8 beating by Arizona.

The six NFC playoff teams are set and for the second straight year neither the Eagles nor the Giants are among them.

The Cardinals would hold the tiebreaker edge because of a superior conference record. The real question is which Seahawks team will show up, regardless of who and where they play. He thinks taking a normal approach to the game will keep his team sharp. All it took were three games for it to happen too.

There is absolutely no other way to describe this game aside from incredibly embarrassing.

But we all know what these Seahawks are capable of. Everything is in front of us as far as winning the division.

“So, they all feel the same way”.

After a Josh Brown field goal got the Giants within seven points, New York’s defense got a quick stop and put the offense in position to potentially tie the game. But it doesn’t sound as if Arians will be watching the scoreboard. “So why rest them?” If there is still hope for the Packers this season, it isn’t a widely shared belief.

“Everybody knows how bad Ty wanted this”, said cornerback Jerraud Powers.

“We have to get this win”, linebacker Clay Matthews said. But this is a big game, and it’s a rivalry game, which makes this tough to predict. “I think that’s what our guys have done”.

Just how inefficient has the Packers passing game been? 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.

“It’s saying something when Bill Belichick doesn’t have enough faith in his offense to take the first possession in overtime”, Glauber said. QB Aaron Rodgers has passer rating of 121.6, for 1,548 yards with 14 TDs and three interceptions, in six career prime-time games against Minnesota….

PASS DEFENSE: A. The Vikings intercepted Eli Manning three times. Their offensive line is a mess, and their offensive weapons aren’t as scary as they have been in years past.

Arizona were lights out on both sides of the ball, their defence sacking Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers nine times and forcing four turnovers, while their offence received contributions from different faces. Rodgers turned right around and threw a pick in the end zone to give the ball back to the Cardinals.

-RUSH DEFENSE: B. The Packers had decent numbers, 101 yards on 26 carries, but the Cardinals did a solid job when it counted.

Let’s go back to the statement before about how the hottest team, not the best team, wins the Super Bowl. The coverage teams were solid and there were no glaring errors anywhere.

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — For head coach Bruce Arians and the Arizona Cardinals, Week 17 might as well be Week 1.

And the Cardinals responded with their best defensive game of the season.

This sounds a lot like the Packers’ season in general.