Seahawks face Vikings Sunday in NFC Wild Card game

Not only was the seed at stake, head coach Bruce Arians also wanted to keep the momentum from recent weeks heading into the playoffs.

Arians said the Seahawks have changed since that mid-November meeting. “We’re playing so well right now, we don’t want to change”. “So we understand what we’re going to be dealing with, the kind of competition it’s going to be, and we have to raise our level of play, plain and simple”. “We’re hoping that means he has a chance to get back”. “We’ll get plenty of rest”.

If it’s Green Bay, which would mean a Packers loss to the Vikings, the Packers are No. 5 and the Seahawks are No. 6, regardless of Seattle’s result vs. the Cardinals.

But those numbers were enough to put him in the Seahawks’ record books.

Drew Stanton took over for Palmer and quickly threw an interception to Earl Thomas, his 5th pick of the year. Both lines were outworked in the trenches.

What this does is remove a lot of the positive vibes the franchise had built up over the past couple of months. After it was over, the Seahawks might be the most-feared 10-6 team in National Football League history. He has 33 catches for 423 yards and four touchdowns to go with his 556 yards on the ground, almost all of it in the past four games when he took over for injured Chris Johnson. Russell Wilson completed 25 of 41 passes for 289 yards and two touchdowns against one interception, and added 39 yards in six attempts on the ground.

According to Pro Football Focus, Mathieu was the No. 1 cornerback in football this season before he went down with a torn ACL.

-Richard Sherman makes sure the Cardinals know how he feels. “And he’s alive to play on defense as well”.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – The Seattle Seahawks are storming into the postseason with a rousing victory over the Arizona team that had dethroned them as NFC West champions.

On the very first offensive drive of the game for Seattle, Christine Michael busted out his huge run, which is awesome on its own. “There are some other guys, but you watch Tyler and the different things that he can do”. The Cardinals’ John Brown passed 1,000 yards receiving for the season….

Here’s the biggest thing I’d be anxious about from Seattle’s perspective – the forecast calls for a high of 15 degrees in Minneapolis on Sunday.

Both the Cardinals (13-3) and Panthers (15-1) had already clinched first-round byes. The Vikings enter the season finale against the Packers having won their last two games by more than 20 points, defeating the Chicago Bears, 38-17, December 20 and the New York Giants, 49-17, December 27.

RUNNING COMMITTEE: The Cardinals won’t have to see Marshawn Lynch because the Seahawks running back will miss his seventh straight game due to an abdominal injury that required surgery. They will host the Seattle Seahawks on Wild Card Weekend, and now we know when. This was just one of Michael’s many highlights runs on Sunday, which also included a multitude of Houdini-style plays in which he turned three-yard losses into ten-yard gains.

During training camp and leading into the season, how Seattle would get past the Super Bowl disappointment was the main topic of conversation.

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