The Packers and Vikings will bring the curtain down on the regular season on Sunday night when they meet at Lambeau Field to determine which team will be advancing to the playoffs as the NFC North champion.
The loser of the game will still be going to the playoffs as a Wild Card team, but the prospect of winning the division and hosting a playoff game makes for a pretty appealing prize. Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater doesn’t want thoughts of that result to get into players’ heads and keep them from playing their game on Sunday night.
“It’s a big game, but we can’t let the game become bigger than what it is,” Bridgewater said, via the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “We can’t let the game become too big. We’re playing for a lot right now, but at the same time, you have to go out there and be ourselves. We don’t have to do anything extra. We don’t have to put any S’s on our chests, capes on our backs. We just have to do our job and do it well.”
Bridgewater said he doesn’t think there have been any moments this season when he let the game get bigger than it was, but coach Mike Zimmer said that there have “been times he’s tried to do too much” over the course of his second NFL season. He’s played well three weeks in a row, though, and continuing that this Sunday would put the Vikings in good shape to wind up back at home for the Wild Card round.