National Football League notes: Packers say Rodgers is healthy

That has its impact on Bridgewater, who has developed nicely in his two years in the league, but will face bigger responsibilities as the expectations grow. But the Vikings have an injury along the OL that bears monitoring, as well.

Aaron Rodgers engineered a fourth-quarter drive that finished with a touchdown toss to Richard Rodgers, cementing a Packers’ 27-17 win over a Seattle Seahawks team that had given Rodgers and the Packers trouble in recent seasons.

Sticking with the offensive line, LG Brandon Fusco is coming off his best game of the season. So much so that Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer gave Fusco, C Joe Berger and RG Mike Harris a game ball. Bakhtiari, right tackle Bryan Bulaga and left guard Josh Sitton all have knee injuries but are probable. This is a week-to-week league. “But I think for the guys in this locker room who are out there battling, it’s a source of pride”.

Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are struggling on offense.

“Coach Zimmer is an excellent football coach”, Rodgers said. His first one came in 2003, when Waynes was 11. Yes, Ticket King is a great resource for road games, and all are an even better deal if you use the promo code DAILYDOUBLE, which will get you 10% off and supports Vikings Journal.

Green Bay is 5-4 against the spread this season. Like Carolina and Denver, Detroit frequently challenged the Packers to find an open receiver before five- and six-man rushes could get to Rodgers, who has been sacked 11 times and taken 28 hits during the team’s three-game losing streak.

“When you win a game, you like the feeling and that makes you want to win even more“, Lions safety Glover Quin.

What may be more realistic for the Vikings is recognizing this moment as not a door to paradise but a rare window of opportunity, and perhaps the first chapter of a new-age rivalry in which victories over the Packers won’t be so rare.

With the way the Packers have played and the questions surrounding Rodgers’ health, it’s hard to see them pulling the upset on Sunday. However, that doesn’t exempt them from going, and there’s one particular reason.

“The last couple games, we’ve been shooting ourselves in the foot”, Packers receiver James Jones said. “The kickoff team is the momentum team”.

“It’s good to get the guys back there doing something”, coach Lovie Smith said. “We needed 19 points to win today, you would expect us at home to score 19”.

But they aren’t yet good – they make just the wrong mistakes at just the wrong time against the teams that can take advantage of every single one, such as Cordarrelle Patterson’s 93-yard return off a Sebastian Janikowski squib kick. But the players are human, and they know a win for the 1st place Vikings over the second place Packers has huge implications for the division and playoffs-like nothing we’ve seen here for a long time.

You know it’s a big sporting event if Erin Andrews is involved.

Fingers immediately began to point at Andy Dalton, including the extra long digits of Texans All-Pro J.J. Watt mainly due to Dalton’s history of poor performances in big games. In their three losses since the bye week, the Packers have allowed an average of 293 passing yards per game. The current Vikings hierarchy feels and looks more stable than any they have had since Bud Grant’s first retirement.