Seattle Seahawks vs Minnesota Vikings NFL Playoff Schedule 2016, Odds, Spread

Playing for nothing more than playoff seeding that was entirely out of their control, Seattle went to Arizona and won, 36-6.

It ended up looking a lot like a certain Super Bowl.

“I think we’re excited about the opportunity that they might be coming back here”.

Sunday’s win felt like another Seahawks blowout over a playoff-bound NFC team, the 38-7 drubbing of the Vikings in Week 13 – a far cry from early in the season, when Seattle blew close games late against Green Bay, Carolina and this Arizona team.

“These guys are confident that we can go wherever we got to go”, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said before he knew which team the Seahawks would face.

All last week Arians maintained they would approach Sunday’s tilt with the Seahawks as if it was Week 1 of the regular season. Yes, they’re playing a 10 a.m. PT game, but it’s in the Central time zone.

So, in the end, the one thing the Cardinals absolutely needed to do on Sunday, they did. The quality of the opponent amplified the statement.

The Seattle Seahawks take on the Arizona Cardinals today in a game on the NFL football schedule which sees the two NFC West division rivals facing off in what some observers expect will eventually be the NFC Championship matchup in the playoffs, but with one team secure in its standings and the other scrapping for a wildcard position. Hauschka missed a 40 yard attempt making it the first possession of the game that didn’t result in a Seattle score.

-PASSING DEFENSE: D. Seattle’s Russell Wilson passed for 197 yards and three touchdowns.

On the very first offensive drive of the game for Seattle, Christine Michael busted out his huge run, which is awesome on its own.

Defensively, the Redskins “attack people”, Arians said.

After losing to the Seahawks 36-6, they must have gone from thinking they were the NFL’s best team to having doubts entering the playoffs.

But, Peterson added, “I didn’t think we were too high or too low”. “The Cardinals certainly couldn’t”. He played not only 26 snaps on offense, he also joined the defense for 4 snaps, and continued in his role blocking on special teams for 6 snaps. Minnesota was without nose tackle Linval Joseph in the December loss and lost two more key players, linebacker Anthony Barr and safety Harrison Smith, in the opening quarter.

Tukuafu’s touchdown was his first reception of the season.

Not only did the Cards look flat heading into the postseason, but fans were forced to watch the hated Seahawks once again dominate their team on its home turf. “The good news is that we’re only thinking about the playoffs now and the next ball, which we don’t know who we will play”. He gave little credence to the idea of “momentum”, either.

The Vikings are going to need a big performance from Peterson, who left the Packers game for a period because of back spasms.

“Quarterback Russell Wilson has led the Seahawks to two consecutive Super Bowls, recently put together perhaps the best five-game stretch of any quarterback in National Football League history and generally exceeded every expectation pundits had for him when he was taken in the third round of the 2012 National Football League draft”. He hopped up and down and complained to the official – only to learn a moment later the flag was on Arizona’s Brittan Golden for what was called a facemask, but what looked like Golden pulling Sherman by his dreadlocked hair while they were engaged in a block. After Sunday’s game, so should everybody else in the conference.