New Orleans Saints vs Minnesota Vikings

Today marks the first playoff game at U.S. Bank Stadium, with the New Orleans Saints in town to take on the Vikings in the divisional round. He’ll have the Vikings ready for this game. Minnesota finished the regular season with the league’s No. 1 total defense, No. 2 defense against the pass and the No. 2 defense against the run. “We’ll have our hands full”, said Vikings running back Jerrick McKinnon. However, unlike most of his peers, Brees doesn’t need to maintain sideline comms with his coaches, while his mental playclock and improvisational playbook afford New Orleans offensive flexibility and reduce any delay-of-game penalties. It should be nice and loud and help on defense. We’re going to go in there with confidence, swagger and play the ball we know how to play. Case Keenum completed 67.6 percent of his passes for 3,547 yards and 22 touchdowns against seven interceptions.

Wheeler, a Minnesota native and a Jet headed to his first All-Star Game, has thrived versus his home state team this season, with five points in the three previous meetings. Five of the previous 10 teams that led in that category went on to the Super Bowl, winning three times.

It will be interesting to see if they run the ball much against the best defense in the country in the Vikings.

The Minnesota Vikings face the New Orleans Saints this Sunday in week 1 rematch where the Vikings handled the Saints easily. While this game may look one-sided on paper, the Titans clearly are playing with heart and passion right now.

“We’re going to go the Mall of America, I’ve never been there”. A powerhouse team in the league led by 5-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, the Patriots seem like the team to beat this year. Can you talk about some of Zimmer’s top priorities when game planning to stop the Saints cruising offense? They have not lost consecutive home playoff games since doing so in 1988 against the Redskins and 1993 against the Bears. He has thrown two passes all season, both incomplete against the Bengals. The duo combined for 250 yards and two touchdowns, helping lift Minnesota to a season-opening win.

It’s a matchup of well known established veterans versus a resurrected supposed reborn veteran under center as the New Orleans Saints travel to Minneapolis to take on the Vikings in a freezing cold uphill battle.