Vikings Fans Lost Their Damn Minds After Loss To Seahawks

It wasn’t destiny. It wasn’t divine intervention. It’s a really good thing to know about yourself when you’re going into these games. What’s that Thomas Jefferson quote again?

The Vikings’ hopes for the National Football League postseason were dashed Sunday after kicker Blair Walsh missed a field goal in the final seconds of the game.

The Seahawks left their last visit to Minnesota with a 38-7 victory, pure domination on both sides of the ball that left no doubt that December 6 afternoon they’d be a legitimate contender to reach their third straight Super Bowl even without the ear-splitting advantage of their home by the bay at CenturyLink Field.

Aesthetically-speaking, the game had all the appeal of an ’85 Yugo.

Still, Zimmer said he can’t help but wonder how far this team could have gone were it not for one kick that went awry.

Blair Walsh made three kicks to give the Minnesota Vikings a two-score lead heading into the fourth quarter. Instead, it was a day none of them may ever forget.

“I haven’t been on other teams, but it seems like we work on special teams a lot more than other teams”, Gostkowski said.

That said, it’s a tad easier to believe when your quarterback finished the season with the best passer rating in the NFL. But I can tell you this: “it’s my fault”.

Everyone else for Seattle was listed as probable including starting strong safety Kam Chancellor, guard J.R. Sweezy and left tackle Russell Okung after all three missed the regular-season finale.

Take over he did. He was quick to mention ball security on Monday when asked what improvements he needs to make, acknowledging he’s taken for granted the amount of fumbles of his the Vikings have recovered. Seattle will play at Carolina for the fourth time since the 2012 season. Brett Favre’s resurgence in the 2009 season made the Vikings Super Bowl contenders, and it looked like the veteran QB had his team on the brink of winning of the NFC Championship Game against the Saints.

“He didn’t feel like he could go”, Carroll said on Sunday in Minneapolis.

His body refreshed from the unexpected late-career break and his mind determined to prove he can still thrive on the field past age 30, let alone his drive to put the fallout from the child-abuse case against him in the past, Peterson played in every game.

“He just didn’t quite get through it”, Carroll said.

On Sunday, with the Seattle Seahawks up 10-9 on the Minnesota Vikings with just 30 seconds left in their wild card playoff game, the Vikings lined up for a 27-yard field goal that everybody assumed would send them through to the next round to face the Carolina Panthers.

As the moment registered, the Seahawks might have set a team record for simultaneous looks to the heavens.

You can’t call it anything but that. I’ve seen the best of the best miss kicks – miss big kicks, miss short kicks.

Seattle’s victory means another week of pondering the status of running back Marshawn Lynch, who did not make the trip to Minnesota after deciding on Friday he was not going to be able to play. It’s the discipline to understand the scheme that we play and the schemes that they use in their running game, just being patient and tough when you have to be, being physical at the line of scrimmage, and being really well coordinated because it takes all of that to keep him from breaking out.