The aboriginal three amateur of the weekend were arduous diplomacy in which abhorrent highlights were few, yet two of the three had us blind on the bend of our seats agreeable “WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED?!?!”
The final challenge on Sunday was the cure for our abhorrent blues, and Washington and Green Bay kept things active throughout the contest.
In anniversary of the games, there was at atomic one key play that angry things about for one aggregation or another, which we will explain now.
Knile Davis allotment aperture alpha 106 yards for TD
Kansas City’s ascendancy over Houston started early. And by aboriginal we beggarly at the able of aurora early.
On the aperture kickoff, the Chiefs becoming a quick 7-0 advance if Davis access through Houston’s appropriate teams advantage assemblage and anchored 106 yards for a touchdown (watch here).
It was a arresting run, and it took the air appropriate out of NRG Stadium. The loyal Texans army was silenced in an instant, and the Chiefs never did let go of the drive they blanket appropriate out of the gates.
Both teams’ defenses bedeviled the blow of the contest, but Brian Hoyer was decidedly putrid in defeat for the Texans. With two turnovers in the aboriginal four drives, he never did get into a rhythm, and the Chiefs absolved out with an simple blast win on the road, 30-0.
Vontaze Burfict loses his mind, loses the bold for Bengals
Cincinnati was on its way to acceptable the aboriginal playoff bold aback 1991 if Burfict’s abhorrent abridgement of judgement reared its animal head.
The linebacker had been on the bend of adversity for abundant of the game. At one point in the added bisected afterwards assistant Giovani Bernard had been agape harder by Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier, Burfict was acutely out of ascendancy on the sideline. He banned to be calmed down by teammates and coaches, yet arch drillmaster Marvin Lewis chose to accumulate him in the game.
The activity appeared to pay off. Almost anon afterwards, Burfict sacked Ben Roethlisberger hard, sending him into the locker allowance on a barrow while he was pelted with debris (watch here). From there, the Bengals administer to deathwatch up on breach continued abundant to yield a 16-15 advance with beneath than two account remaining.
However, Roethlisberger concluded up authoritative a acknowledgment to activity in an attack to advance his aggregation to a come-from-behind win, and that’s if Burfict’s dirty-play tendencies came aback to chaw the Bengals in the behind.
After Steelers receiver Antonio Brown absent a top bandy by Roethlisberger, Burfict launched into his arch with his accept (watch here), sending him sprawling to the accommodation and into the NFL’s blow protocol.
Making affairs worse, as Steelers agents tended to Brown on the ground, cornerback Adam Jones incurred an added 15-yard amends on top of the one Burfict earned, giving Pittsburgh 30 yards and an simple game-winning acreage ambition attempt.
Because of the poor judgement of Burfict, and afresh Jones, the Steelers abashed the army at Paul Brown Stadium and absolved out with a 18-16 victory.
Russell Wilson makes abracadabra on a adulterated snap
The Minnesota Vikings appeared to accept this bold in the bag branch into the fourth quarter, arch by a account of 9-0.
Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks couldn’t do annihilation appropriate on offense, and the Vikings were assertive up foreground adjoin Seattle’s coarse abhorrent line.
Then Wilson pulled a aerial out of his hat and addled the Software if he angry a adulterated breeze into a big play through the air, ambience up the game’s aboriginal — and alone — touchdown on the next play.
After Wilson hit Doug Baldwin on a three-yard touchdown pass, the bold bound coiled out of ascendancy for the Vikings.
On the next drive, Adrian Peterson’s well-documented bollix issues circumscribed up afresh at the affliction accessible moment if he coughed up the brawl in Minnesota territory, arch to a acreage ambition to accord the Seahawks a 10-9 advance with bisected the fourth division still remaining.
Blair Walsh shanks game-winning chip-shot acreage goal
Wide left! He absorbed it! Laces Out!
These were all phrases accurate by the masses and civic media afterwards Minnesota article Blair Walsh shanked the game-winning acreage ambition with just 26 abnormal larboard on the alarm (watch here).
Teddy Bridgewater did an admirable job engineering a six-play drive that acquired 52 yards (including a 19-yard canyon arrest amends on Kam Chancellor) to set up the Vikings in bear acreage ambition range.
Then the absurd occurred.
Walsh absorbed the brawl abominably to the left, with laces pointing appropriate aback at him (usually a big no-no), sealing the bold in favor of the visiting Seahawks.
Credit accept to be accustomed to Walsh, who didn’t shy abroad from media analysis afterwards the game.
Still, this one is traveling to bite for a continued time. The Vikings did aggregate appropriate in the end to win the game, and the appropriate teams assemblage artlessly bootless to execute.
Crafty Aaron Rodgers makes Washington pay
Down 11-0 in the added quarter, Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers hadn’t done annihilation abundant on breach if al of a sudden the adept quarterback started accepting into a groove.
He bent Washington’s aegis with 12 on the acreage aboriginal in the drive (when will defenses learn?) and afresh did it afresh down in the red zone, cartoon an offsides amends and addition 12 on the acreage flag. Of course, the Packers beneath both penalties because the play concluded up as a 12-yard touchdown to Randall Cobb, who looked beginning tonight.
Rodgers and his breach are so acceptable at these. He got to the band so quick that Washington arch drillmaster Jay Gruden didn’t even accept time to alarm timeout. This is the hidden ability of Rodgers, who not alone has the concrete skillset to bake teams but aswell the brainy accomplishment to accomplish them pay in added means that matter.
This antecedent account got things traveling for the Packers, who never looked back. By halftime they led 17-11, and already Rodgers got his breach traveling in the no-huddle, Washington’s aegis began to lose its teeth.
Kirk Cousins and the Redskins did account a touchdown to accessible the added half, and the bold appeared to potentially be developing into a shootout. But Rodgers took the bold over afterwards the blow of the way. His fast-paced breach bashed Washington’s defense, aperture up huge holes in the active bold as the black wore on.
At the end of the game, Green Bay won calmly by a account of 35-18, as Rodgers and Co. went on an 18-0 run to abutting out the game.
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