Last-second field goal vaults Lions into 1st in NFC North

Levy has missed all but one and a half games since the start of the 2015 season. But don’t count out Rodgers just yet. Locke and the punt team’s ability to flip the field position is an excellent complement to the Vikings defense. But Rodgers, a future Hall of Famer, is doing all he can.

The quarterback completed 31 of 37 passes for 224 yards and an interception.

Stafford, as he has all season, did whatever was needed down the stretch. “We had to keep playing, but we didn’t make enough plays”. “I felt pretty confident we were going to be able to close the game out at the end”. The more games the Vikings lose, the better that pick becomes for the Eagles.

The problem with the Packers hasn’t been Rodgers or the offense. “That was the first time he had trapped it (Thursday)”.

The Lions will have a featured game on the holiday as usual, continuing a tradition that dates to 1934, but it will be very significant to them in the standings unlike many matchups over the past two-plus decades. “I think that’s an area we’ve got to get better in”.

Detroit extended its National Football League record of having its first 11 games decided by seven or fewer points.

With 38 seconds left, Bradford threw a bad interception to Darius Slay in their own territory. He ended up with 30 yards on four carries, giving the offense a boost when little else was working. And though he completed 83.8 percent of his passes – the highest percentage by a Vikings player who attempted 30 or more throws since Fran Tarkenton on November 14, 1976, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau – his first five third-down passes of the day failed to net a first down.

And then they got another score.

“It’s hard when you are only picking up five, six, seven at a time”. A few years ago, teams figured out how to stop the wildcat and then every team went away from it.

“You can practice mental toughness, but a lot of it just comes from within and dealing with adversity, and through that adversity your character is revealed”, Rodgers said in a conference call Wednesday with Philly writers.

The Lions can feel confident in their kicker in important spots. Detroit has now won six of seven since starting the season 1-3.

Several NFL teams were quick to adopt the Thanksgiving Day game as a way to draw in new fans. I shudder to remember the Christian Ponder years. He made a season-long, 58-yard field goal at Minnesota before the Lions won 22-16. Desmond Bishop tripped him up there. The Vikings also averaged 5.1 yards per carry and scored their first touchdown in a short-yardage situation with a five-yard Matt Asiata plunge. Tight end Kyle Rudolph caught nine passes for 64 yards and Adam Thielen gathered in eight passes for 53 yards. “It was just a great feeling”.

Slay, though, came up with a huge defensive play for the second time this year. It’s a tough environment.

The Vikings placed him on injured reserve with designation to return, meaning he could come back yet this season.

– What we know about Sam Bradford is that he needs help to win.