Vikings fan takes a shot at Blair Walsh with field goal video

“I told them to enjoy the heck out of it”, Carroll said of his post-game message to his team. This is evident in the score because even though they let up a few points, they did not allow a single touchdown in the contest. Minnesota places themselves well within field goal range, and are poised to send Russel Wilson and the Seahawks packing. Those were his first workouts with the team since November 12.

Lynch is the second player Seattle has ruled out after previously announcing it would be without tight end Luke Willson after he had a setback in his recovery from a concussion suffered in the Week 16 loss to St. Louis.

Seattle’s unlikely victory was the result largely of its defense that kept Adrian Peterson wrapped up twice this season and forced a critical fumble by Peterson early in the fourth quarter.

But Peterson didn’t have the ball secured and Kam Chancellor was able to rip it out.

Those sentiments were echoed by safety Harrison Smith, who said: “He’s stepped up for us and won games for us in the past, so we’re not going to abandon him now”.

However, Walsh didn’t make any excuses. “They’ve got to snap it, they’ve got catch it, they’ve got to put it on the ground, they’ve got to kick it. All of those things have to happen”.

“I’ll take the blame because I deserve every second of it”, Walsh said after the game.

“This football team shouldn’t be going home right now, and that’s hard”, Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway said. Could the the memory of Sherman almost making the block have played a part in Walsh missing the kick to win the game? Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers overcame a slow start to lead the Packers to a comfortable victory at Washington.

“He’s the reason we were in the game in the first place”, said Barr. They gained all of 11 yards heading into the second period and they trailed by double digits. But Aaron Rodgers found a way to escape the pass rush despite his bad offensive line, finishing the game with 210 passing yards and two touchdowns, with Green Bay outscoring the Redskins 18-0 in the final 24:41, including two rushing touchdowns by James Starks and Eddie Lacy. “They’ve had so many dominant games on both sides of the ball”.

“We just needed a game like this to get our mojo back and get our confidence going”, said Rodgers, who had been under close scrutiny during his team’s regular-season offensive struggles.

The four games last weekend averaged 32.5 million viewers, up 9 percent from the 29.9 million last season. “‘It’s a little sick feeling any time you lose a game at the end of the year not matter when it is” Washington’s Jay Gruden said after his first playoff game as an National Football League head coach. The playoffs bring it out in all of us. Leading the Seattle attack included Bobby Wagner (eight total tackles, one sack), K.J. Wright (five solo stops) and Richard Sherman (six total, six solo tackles).

In overtime, Pittsburgh’s Jeff Reed hit a 33-yard kick to give Pittsburgh a 20-17 win. It’s not just how tough you are or how fast you run, you’ve got to do things right.