Big Play Day for Vikings in Win Against Cardinals

Minnesota’s defense has allowed 10 touchdowns thus far, but has matched that with interceptions.

Or they just couldn’t resist casting shade one more time in the direction of Blair Walsh.

Sunday was Arians’ first crack at the Vikings in Minnesota and his team failed in a contest critical to avoiding a lost season. It would take an entire team effort to finish off the Cardinals, as well. The 49ers entered the game with the worst run defense in the National Football League, allowing seven straight 100 yard rushers. That means the early game on Thanksgiving in Detroit will be for sole possession of the NFC North lead.

As phenomenal as he was in 2015, Palmer has been a liability for the Cardinals this season. “We can’t let any more go”.

Hunter, who recorded his first game with 2.0 sacks, said coaches told the team, “just keep pounding, and eventually the sacks are going to come”. Bruce Arians’ team played hard but not always smart.

Buffalo’s defense clinched it by knocking down Andy Dalton’s desperation pass into the end zone on the final play.

Offensively, the Cardinals are averaging 22.4 points and 382.0 total yards (272.9 in passing and 109.1 in rushing) per game.

After a blowout win against the Packers, the Titans fell short of forcing overtime in the fourth quarter after their comeback attempt fell just flat on 4th and 1 to the Colts. That all needs to change this Sunday if the purple want to come out on top. It is crucial that they do. The Minnesota team has taken some tough blows throughout the season, including injuries from cornerbacks Captain Munnerlyn, 28, and Xavier Rhodes, 26.

“We are a resilient group”, Fitzgerald said. This week coach said to play our defense, be aggressive and go out there and tackle.

He has been one of the league’s most physically fit receivers since arriving 2004 as the third overall pick out of the University of Pittsburgh.

And things are now guaranteed to get worse after A.J. Green went down Sunday with a hamstring tear that is likely to cost him the rest of the season, and Gio Bernard reportedly suffered a season-ending ACL tear.

Brian Hoyer and Connor Shaw, two Browns castoffs, are now on the Bears injured reserve list and Hoyer will be a free agent after this season. At one point in time this season, both the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings were favorites to meet up in the NFC title game for a trip to the Super Bowl. Fast forward to today, and people are wondering if they’ll earn a playoff berth.

Vikings WR Cordarrelle Patterson has at least three catches in a career-high six straight games. The drive lasted only five plays, fueled by a 30-yard pass play to Patterson.

“We got them in a situation where they had to throw the ball, and we were able to pin our ears back and do what I feel we like to do best, ” Robison said.

“It looked like an obvious holding penalty”, Palmer said.

Third-and-1 had been a boogeyman of sorts in the Vikings four-game skid. “Anytime the ball’s in his hands, he’s got a chance to take it all the way”. He had five touchbacks on kickoffs-something that was a knock on him coming in. Brittan Golden getting a 49-yard kickoff return. All in all, it was a decent performance that looked better than we had seen in awhile. A few Cardinals ended up on the wrong side of blocks, he added. Patterson broke out some socks with his own likeness on them – “Last night I was packing my bag and said hey, I need to pack these”, he said – and broke the game open with a kick return that gave the Vikings a 27-17 lead.

Meanwhile, Vikings quarterback Sam Bradford was sacked just twice.