Missed field goal gives Seahawks frigid Wild Card win

Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett (72), Frank Clark (55) and Kam Chancellor (31) take down Minnesota Vikings run…

All that set up the real heartbreaker for Kaeding, though: a 2010 game against the Jets in which he missed three kicks – from 36, 57 and 40 yards – in a game NY won 17-14.

Seattle Seahawks players celebrate after Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh (3) misses a field goal during the second half of an NFL wild-card football game, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Minneapolis.

Peterson credited offensive coordinator Norv Turner with doing a good job this season and says, as the offense changed, eventually the Vikings “found the right formula”. “Sometimes you’re fortunate and you get away with it. Sometimes you don’t”.

Walsh didn’t hide afterward. All alone, just a few yards behind holder Jeff Locke, Walsh finished his pre-kick routine.

The term, “Laces Out”, will likely follow Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh for the rest of his career. I’ve seen the best of the best miss kicks – miss big kicks, miss short kicks.

Seattle’s unlikely victory was the result largely of its defense that kept Adrian Peterson wrapped up twice this season and forced a critical fumble by Peterson early in the fourth quarter. “So that’s it. He took off and left”. After the Vikings drafted him in 2012, Walsh was voted onto both the Pro Bowl and All-Pro teams. “That’s all it is”.

As the lowest remaining seed in the NFC at number six the Seahawks, bidding for a third straight appearance in the Super Bowl, will now head to Charlotte next weekend for a divisional showdown with the number one ranked Carolina Panthers.

“We need to make those kicks and we’re paid to do that”. And while we know you’ll agree that’s evidence enough that it was super cold, Minnesotans wanted to make it clear they liked their home field advantage, so there was this shirtless guy in the stands, and more noticeably, legendary Vikings coach Bud Grant walked out to midfield for the coin toss in a polo, like was just another spring day. Instead, the Seahawks advanced with a 10-9 win. But the fourth-quarter heroics weren’t limited to the offense.

“Just tried to extend the play”, said Wilson, who went 13 for 26 for 142 yards.

-Tight end Luke Willson (concussion) is expected to return this week after sitting out the past two games. Walsh hooked a 27-yard field goal left and the Seahawks escaped with the victory.

Not that any of that matters to the Minnesotans who thought their team was about to knock out the mighty Seahawks and advance in the playoffs. The Seahawks hadn’t scored in the past three quarters. By doing so, the Seahawks ran the risk of having to drive for the winning score with only a handful of seconds on the clock and no timeouts.

In 2004 he missed two field goals – including a chance for the win in overtime – in the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 27-25 loss to the B.C. Lions in the West Division final.

Wilson, who had racked up 24 touchdown passes with only one interception over the past seven games, was essentially reduced to a scrambler in the deep freeze. The ball veered left of the goalpost. That cost the Bengals 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.

“I haven’t been on other teams, but it seems like we work on special teams a lot more than other teams”, Gostkowski said.