{"id":188711,"date":"2020-01-05T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T22:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188711"},"modified":"2020-01-05T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T22:35:24","slug":"vike-defeat-saints-in-ot-niners-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188711","title":{"rendered":"Vikes Defeat Saints in OT, Niners Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136538\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Vikingsplayoffsaints-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Vikingsplayoffsaints-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Vikingsplayoffsaints-431x232.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Vikingsplayoffsaints-325x175.jpg 325w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Vikingsplayoffsaints.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP) Kirk Cousins hit tight end Kyle Rudolph with a 4-yard fade on third-and-goal in overtime, and the Minnesota Vikings pulled out a 26-20 victory over the Saints in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs. Dalvin Cook gained 130 yards from scrimmage and scored two touchdowns. Cousins finished with 242 yards and one TD passing, highlighted by his 43-yard completion to Adam Thielen on the opening possession of overtime to give Minnesota the ball on the Saints 2-yard line and set up the winning score. Saints quarterback Drew Brees passed for 208 yards and a touchdown, but had two turnovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) Kirk Cousins hit tight end Kyle Rudolph with a 4-yard fade on third-and-goal in overtime, and the Minnesota Vikings pulled out a 26-20 victory over the Saints in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs. Dalvin Cook gained 130 yards from scrimmage and scored two touchdowns. Cousins finished with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188713,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188711\/revisions\/188713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}