Hugh Millen breaks down five plays in which the Seattle Seahawks stopped Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson for 3 yards or less, and details Doug Baldwin’s two touchdown receptions.
The Seahawks probably aren’t 37 points better than the Minnesota Vikings, but they played nearly flawlessly. Yes, Minnesota’s three best defenders were out with injuries and Seattle benefited from a couple of awful calls by officials, but Seattle thrashed the league’s second-ranked defense and made quarterback Teddy Bridgewater look like an undrafted rookie up from the practice squad.
Most impressive, however, was the suffocation of Adrian Peterson, the league’s leading rusher who Sunday registered the third-lowest game of his career with just 18 yards on eight carries — with a long of 5.