Vikings Playing Against the Seahawks and the Expert World

Lockett set a franchise rookie record for most all-purpose yards at 1,915 (852 on kickoff returns, 664 receiving, 379 on punt returns and 20 on rushes from scrimmage) to go along with eight total touchdowns.

The Vikings will return home on Sunday to host the team’s first home playoff game since 2010 after winning the NFC North in 2009.

The graphic below, produced by a computer model accessed via WeatherBell Analytics, shows predicted wind-chill values for the Minneapolis area near the time of Sunday’s kickoff. It would be among the coldest games in National Football League history.

“These guys are confident that we can go wherever we got to go, ” coach Pete Carroll said. “It’s just something that we’ll deal with”.

“I see it as an advantage for us, being used to it”, right guard Mike Harris said.

Goessling: Sheil, the last time the Seahawks came through here, the Vikings were unable to slow down Russell Wilson.

“We’ve had some guys in [the playoffs]”, Zimmer said. Seattle has won each of their last three matchups with the Minnesota Vikings outscoring the purple by a resounding 109-47 margin. The Seahawks have an all-time playoff record of 14-13.

In five career games versus top-five defenses, Bridgewater is 1-4 with a 3:8 TD-to-INT ratio and a 63.5 passer rating. The Chiefs started 1-5 before rattling off 10 straight wins, never allowing more than 22 points in any game. And, in easily its best performance of the season, the defense held red hot MVP candidate Carson Palmer to 129 yards passing with a pick in an impressive 36-6 victory at division victor Arizona.

The regular season is a thing of the past.

Free hand warmers will be distributed in the Fan Zone and at entry gates for those who need them (team is encouraging all fans to also bring their own). On Sunday, fans and players may long for the comforts of the Vikings old indoor stadium, the Metrodome, where they played from 1982-2013.

Forecasts for Sunday’s game between the Seattle Seahawks and Vikings at TCF Bank Stadium in Minnesota have game-time temperatures expected to be close to zero degrees Fahrenheit. They’ve limited their mistakes, forced turnovers from their opponents and have executed different gameplans to win their final three games. I believe this team has undergone a shift in their offensive identity throughout this season – and whom they rely on.

-Nose tackle Linval Joseph, who has missed four of the last five games because of an injured big toe, practiced Wednesday for the first time in two weeks.

“I think it’s impressive that the team voted him as a captain coming in here because of the way he works and the way he does things and tries to be a great teammate”. The secondary will get Kam Chancellor back at safety and the front four are now ranked first in the league in stuffing the run, a good stat when facing the league’s leading rusher in Adrian Peterson. But it’s the Vikings defense that has probably made the biggest jump from Week 13 to Wild Card Weekend.

“Beast Mode”, as the 5-foot-11, 215-pound tailback is known, has played only seven games this season, running for 417 yards and three touchdowns on 111 carries. If they fall behind quickly, their run-first formula featuring Adrian Peterson implodes and protecting Bridgewater behind a so-so O-line gets harder. Ellison suffered a torn patellar tendon in Sunday’s win over the Green Bay Packers and will not be able to play in the postseason. Standout LB Anthony Barr and S Harrison Smith left injured in the first half.