NFC Divisional Preview and Prediction: Saints at Vikings

“Somewhere in the Multiverse”, Childress said, “there’s probably a world where Adrian Peterson fumbled after that turnover in Saints territory right before the half”.

“It’s not a scared nervous, but an excited nervous”, Keenum said this week. He has never missed a game because of injury in his three years as part of New Orleans’ active roster. Influences from Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and indigenous peoples have made it the ultimate melting pot, ” the Times said.

This game is a rematch of the season opener for both teams, a Week 1 game in which the Vikings scored a 29-19 win. The whole atmosphere being in the playoffs has been a blast. There’s going to be a running back I want to destroy.

Keenum is the only undrafted quarterback in the National Football League to take double-digit snaps this season, and yet, he has outperformed almost every single player at the position. However, Foles is 3-1 in his four late-season starts, including completing 23 of 30 passes for 246 yards in the divisional playoff win over the Falcons. “I think, talking about Keenum, he’s just a good manager of the game”.

He might be nervous, but he doesn’t feel pressure.

PREDICTION: Hard to pick against Brees, but Saints could not keep control of Carolina last week and Vikings are a better overall team than Panthers. The Vikings are trying to curtail an offense that’s learned how to employ its weapons around Drew Brees since Week 1; the Saints are hoping they won’t suffer from the broken coverages that could help Case Keenum burn them downfield the way Sam Bradford did in September. And I trust Brees to win in clutch situations more than Keenum.

After sabotaging what should have been a playoff season a year ago, how ironic would it be for the kicking game to bail out the Saints in their biggest challenge this season? It’s the same field and same stadium and same amount of time. “But we put a lot in during a lot of weeks”.

“When you’re in games of that magnitude, it’s as if you’ve been there and done it many times before, even if it was just in your mind”.

His piece details the rise from lowly regarded prospect to landing on the Texans practice squad after failing to make the team as an undrafted free agent. If they lost I would’ve appreciated the opportunity to watch the game with a rooting interest for once. The first marked New Orleans’ debut in the playoffs in the franchise’s 21st season as Minnesota prevailed, 44-10, in a wild-card game in the Superdome. There was a point in the middle of the season where the only comparable player to Keenum – stat-wise – was Tom Brady. I don’t have to be anybody but myself. I mean obviously your goal is to get into the playoffs and to secure the best seed you possibly can, and then it gets to that point when you focus more on the things you control.