Highlights of Sunday’s National Football League games

Game time! The Minnesota Vikings take on the Arizona Cardinals today, and we are pumped!

The first game Fitzgerald played that counted in Minnesota was in 2006, and that’s the game he set his regular-season best in yards, with 172 on 11 catches.

“Our message this week was, ‘Make the solid plays first and let the big plays come to you, ‘ ” Zimmer said.

However, Patterson opened the second half with his fifth career kickoff return for touchdown, going 104 yards. The pair of 100-yard scores was the first time the Vikings had accomplished the feat in their history, and the first time it happened in an National Football League game since the Cowboys pulled the feat in 1962.

Even if the defense and special teams carried it on Sunday, Minnesota’s offense was at least able to limit mistakes.

After covering the spread in five straight games to start the year, the Vikings have failed to cover in four consecutive weeks. Carson Palmer was 20-of-38 passing for 198 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions.

“They have a great front”. As for Larry? Just led the team with 63 yards off six receptions, including a ridiculous one handed catch that I had to watch three or four times.

The Minnesota Vikings hold off the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday afternoon by a final score of 30-24 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

CARDINALS RB David Johnson was limited to only 19-55 rushing in Week 10, but he still managed just over 100 total yards and scored both of team’s TDs with a 3-yard TD pass and an 18-yard TD run.

To this point, this is the most important game of the year for Minnesota.

The Vikings (6-4) used those momentum-shifting plays they’d been missing to hold onto a first-place tie with Detroit in the NFC North, with a rematch against the Lions looming in four days. They also stuck to the run, finding success against a stout Cardinals defense. Rhodes was in zone coverage in the end zone and Palmer’s pass went wide of receiver John Brown, who was caught up with cornerback Captain Munnerlyn.

Opponents have since adjusted with quick passes and well-timed play calls to neutralize what has been a relentless rush, the turnovers haven’t come as often and the Vikings have been more susceptible to those confidence-sapping third-down conversions.

The Vikings had a more fully-formed idea of how they want to run their offense under Pat Shurmur, incorporating more diversity out of their Wildcat package and using Cordarrelle Patterson on end arounds, reverses and screens.

Luck, completing 15 of 28 for 262 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, drove the Colts 64, 75 and 80 yards for touchdowns the first three times they had the ball to build a 21-0 lead. “My dad told me a long time ago, ‘If you make it through the downs, the ups will take care of itself.’ So we’re just going to keep doing what we do”. So the joy of winning, it’s a great feeling. The improvement in the running game was particular pleasing to the Vikings’ head man.

“It was nice we had scores in all three phases of the game”, Zimmer said. Forbath replaced Blair Walsh, who missed a league-leading four extra points.

No receiver has been more prolific in his first nine postseason games, yet Fitzgerald is chasing the championship ring that eluded him in 2009, when Pittsburgh defeated the Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII.