Freeney, Cardinals clinch playoff spot, stop Vikings 23-20

Brian Robison led the defensive effort for Minnesota, recording three tackles and two sacks. “It was one of those things where he gets paid a lot of money”.

“I’m definitely going to get as healthy as I can”, Johnson said.

“We don’t know where or when, but we’re in”, coach Bruce Arians said. Peterson, who rushed for 69 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries after twice calling out the Vikings’ coaching staff for only giving him the ball eight times in last week’s loss to the Seahawks, had one of the fumbles.

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Arizona moved downfield and left guard Mike Iupati caught a deflected pass for 11 yards in the drive to the decisive field goal.

The Vikings were at the Cardinals’ 31 with 23 seconds left but kept trying to throw.

The victory was clinched as the Vikings were driving to tie the game in the final seconds.

The Cardinals blew a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead but got a 47-yard field goal from Chandler Catanzaro, his third of the game, with 1:23 remaining to snap a tie and take the lead for good.

It appeared we were headed for overtime in Glendale, as the Vikings had driven the ball down to Arizona’s 31-yard line. Kendricks and defensive end Everson Griffen will look to get after Palmer Thursday night as the two have combined for 11.5 sacks this season. Adrian Peterson is leading the league for rushing with 1,182 yards, but he was not happy after last week, putting on only 18 yards in eight carries, which works out as the third lowest total yardage of his career.

Bridgewater, who had thrown for less than 200 yards in seven games this season, finished with a season-high 335 yards against Arizona’s estimable defense.

Seattle ran for 173 yards with two touchdowns against Minnesota.

“It’s amusing because I spun three times on that series”, he said. “They had everybody in the world up at the line of scrimmage”. Let’s find who will be the better team on Thursday’s matchup. Moving on to the Minnesota defense, it has some favorable matchups that it may be able to take advantage of as well.

The Vikings a big breakdown in the first quarter, allowing John Brown to race up the sideline for a 65-yard touchdown. The Cardinals are just playing better right now and are another of those bad matchups the Vikings have been seeing the past few weeks.

Dwight Freeney joined the Cardinals a month into the season to help boost Arizona’s troubled pass rush off the edge.

ARIZONA DREAMING: Rumors swirled in the offseason that Peterson might be traded to Arizona, and the Vikings running back acknowledged he thought what it might be like to move to the desert and be a teammate of his friend Fitzgerald.

After receiving the kick the Cardinals begin moving down the field with big catches by guys like Darren Fells and Larry Fitzgerald while using David Johnson’s versatility to run the football. Green Bay has a win in hand against Minnesota, so the Vikings need to win just to keep pace for now.