MINNEAPOLIS -- Sam Bradford had a Minnesota debut almost as dazzling as the new $1.1 billion building itself, completing 22 of 30 passes for 286 yards, two touchdowns and no turnovers to lead the Vikings to a 17-14 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.The defense did the rest, sacking Aaron Rodgers five times and producing two turnovers in the fourth quarter that quashed the comeback and sent the crowd of 66,813 into a deafening frenzy in celebration of first regular-season game at U.S. Bank Stadium.Adrian Peterson limped off in the third quarter with a right knee injury, and only 19 yards on 12 carries, but the Vikings (2-0) proved they still have a lot of options. Stefon Diggs caught nine passes for 182 yards a touchdown. They held the Packers (1-1) to 65 total yards in the first half, withstanding an early touchdown pass by Rodgers to Jordy Nelson on a drive aided by two penalties by cornerback Terence Newman.Trae Waynes, who had two penalties himself, intercepted Rodgers pass in Vikings territory in the closing minutes to seal the victory. The previous drive was killed when Brian Robison knocked the ball out of the hands of Rodgers, who ran for 29 yards and a touchdown. He began to find a groove throwing the ball late, but Bradford was the better quarterback on this night.PATRIOTS 31, DOLPHINS 24FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Jimmy Garoppolo had three, first-half touchdown passes before leaving in the second quarter with a right shoulder injury.It was the Patriots eighth straight home victory over Miami (0-2). It came at a price as New England (2-0) was dealt another blow at quarterback with Tom Brady already out his four-game Deflategate suspension.Garoppolos injury came in a flash. On third down with less than five minutes left in the first half, he was chased out of the pocket and got off a completion to Malcolm Mitchell. Garoppolo was driven into the ground on his shoulder by Miami linebacker Kiko Alonso.Garoppolo initially got up, before going down to one knee and being attended to by the training staff. He ended his day 18 of 27 for 234 yards and the three scores.He was replaced by rookie Jacoby Brissett, who led New England to a touchdown on its first possession of the second half. Brissett was 6 of 9 for 92 yards. LeGarrette Blount rushed 29 times for 123 yards and a touchdown. Martellus Bennett also had five catches 114 and a touchdown.Miami rallied in the second half but couldnt catch up.STEELERS 24, BENGALS 16PITTSBURGH -- Ben Roethlisberger threw for 259 yards and three touchdowns to offset a pair of interceptions.DeAngelo Williams churned out 94 yards on a career-high 32 carries and added a 4-yard touchdown grab. Tight ends Jesse James and Xavier Grimble also caught scoring passes from Roethlisberger as the Steelers (2-0) kept Cincinnati in check at rainy Heinz Field.Andy Dalton passed for 366 yards and a touchdown, but needed 31 completions to reach that total, working almost exclusively on dump offs to running backs and tight ends while Pittsburgh clamped down on star wide receiver A.J. Green, who had just two receptions for 38 yards.The rematch of the Steelers ugly 18-16 win in the wild-card round in January was downright tame. The teams combined for just 10 penalties and only one personal foul.RAMS 9, SEAHAWKS 3LOS ANGELES -- Greg Zuerlein kicked three field goals, the longest a 47-yarder in the fourth quarter, and the Rams marked the return of pro football to Los Angeles for the first time in nearly 22 years with a win.Plenty of penalties slowed down the game for the announced crowd of 91,046 on a searing day at the Memorial Coliseum, where the Rams commemorated the long-awaited occasion by wearing blue-and-gold throwback uniforms.The Rams (1-1) are still without a touchdown after losing 28-0 at San Francisco in their s opener. With field goals accounting for all the offense, it was hardly the high-scoring show Los Angeles sports fans are known to crave.Seattle (1-1) racked up 10 penalties for 114 yards; the Rams had nine penalties for 78 yards.BRONCOS 34, COLTS 20DENVER -- Von Miller gave the Denver fans a reminder of his Super Bowl 50 MVP performance, sweeping in for the sack-strip of Andrew Luck that sealed the win.With the Broncos clinging to a six-point lead with 1:51 remaining, Miller burst past right tackle Joe Reitz and swiped the ball from Lucks grasp. Fellow linebacker Shane Ray scooped up the ball and returned it 15 yards for a touchdown.Miller added a sack on the last play as the Broncos (2-0) sent the banged-up Colts limping to their third consecutive 0-2 start.They did it by rattling Luck, who started 5 for 18 before he engineered a couple of second-half touchdown drives. Luck completed just 21 of 40 passes for 197 yards and was sacked five times.FALCONS 35, RAIDERS 28OAKLAND, Calif. -- Justin Hardy caught a deflected 8-yard touchdown pass to break a tie midway through the fourth quarter.Matt Ryan threw three TD passes, but got lucky on the go-ahead one in the fourth quarter. His third-down throw to Tevin Coleman was broken up, but the ball bounced high in the air and Hardy caught it in the end zone to put Atlanta (1-1) up 28-21.The Raiders (1-1) appeared to tie on the next drive when Amari Cooper caught a 51-yard touchdown pass from Derek Carr. But officials ruled Cooper went out of bounds voluntarily before making the catch, although the Raiders contended he was pushed by Desmond Trufant.Oakland coach Jack Del Rio then went on fourth-and-2, but Jalen Richard was stopped on a 1-yard gain.BUCCANEERS 40, CARDINALS 7GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Carson Palmer threw for 308 yards and three touchdowns and Arizona (1-1) intercepted Jameis Winston four times.Marcus Cooper, acquired off waivers from Kansas City on Sept. 2, had two interceptions, returning the second 60 yards for a score. Winston also fumbled the ball away once.Winston, who had four touchdown passes against Atlanta in the opener and was NFC player of the week, threw 51 passes, the most in his two NFL seasons, completing 27 for 243 yards for the Bucs (1-1).Palmer completed 18 of 31 passes with no interceptions before sitting out most of the fourth quarter. All three of Palmers scoring passes came in the first half,- to Larry Fitzgerald, Michael Floyd and Jaron Brown.CHARGERS 38, JAGUARS 14SAN DIEGO -- Philip Rivers matched his career-high with four touchdown passes, including two to Travis Benjamin and Melvin Gordon ran for one score and had his first 100-yard game.The Chargers (1-1) bounced back from their stunning loss at Kansas City, when they blew a 21-point third-quarter lead and fell 33-27 in overtime.The Jaguars started 0-2 for the fourth time in five seasons. They crossed midfield only six times and committed three turnovers.Casey Hayward led the Chargers defense with two interceptions of Blake Bortles.Gordon, a second-year pro, scored on a 3-yard run on the games opening drive, his first TD at Qualcomm Stadium. Gordon went in standing up, and then right guard D.J. Fluker lifted him off the ground in celebration. He finished with 102 yards on 24 carries.COWBOYS 27, REDSKINS 23LANDOVER, Md. -- Alfred Morris scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 4-yard run with under five minutes left, leading the Cowboys over his former team.Washingtons Kirk Cousins threw an end-zone interception that set up a long Dallas drive to the winning score.With rookie quarterback Dak Prescott looking poised throughout and scrambling for a 6-yard TD run in the second half, Dallas (1-1) won for only the second time in its past 16 games without the injured Tony Romo -- and both of those victories came at Washington (0-2).Prescott finished 22 for 30 for 292 yards.GIANTS 13, SAINTS 10EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Eli Manning hit Victor Cruz on a third-down 34-yard pass to set up Josh Browns winning 23-yard field goal as time expired. The Giants got off to their first 2-0 start since 2009, while New Orleans lost its second straight.Browns third field goal capped an 11-play, 70-yard drive that featured two key third-down passes by Manning and a pass interference call on a throw to Odell Beckham Jr.The game was also redemption for the Giants defense. After allowing Drew Brees to throw for 511 yards and an NFL-tying seven touchdowns, New York limited him to one touchdown, 263 yards passing and 288 yards in total team offense.RAVENS 25, BRONCOS 20CLEVELAND -- Joe Flacco threw two touchdown passes to Mike Wallace and the Ravens rallied from a 20-point first-quarter deficit.Justin Tucker kicked three field goals and the Ravens (2-0) withstood Clevelands final drive to improve to 15-2 against the Browns under coach John Harbaugh.C.J. Mosley intercepted Browns quarterback Josh McCown at the goal line with 13 seconds left to seal the win.Baltimore was a point from trailing by three touchdowns in the opening quarter before blocking an extra point and returning it for two points and igniting the comeback.McCown stayed in despite an injured left shoulder for the Browns (0-2), who were hurt by a missed field goal and three costly penalties in the fourth quarter.PANTHERS 46, 49ERS 27CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Cam Newton threw for 353 yards and four touchdowns, and the Panthers overcame four turnovers.Newton threw two TD passes to Kelvin Benjamin and one each to Greg Olsen and Devin Funchess to pass Jake Delhomme for most TD passes in franchise history with 122.Newton showed no ill effects from the four helmet-to-helmet hits he took in Carolinas season-opening loss to Denver. He took one shot to the head from linebacker Eli Harold late in the game after a pitchout on an option play, but quickly got to his feet.Newtons first pass was tipped and intercepted by Antoine Bethea, leading to a 49ers field goal. But the 2015 league MVP locked in after that, completing 24 of 40 passes while running for 37 yards on six carries.Olsen gave the Panthers the lead for good in the second quarter when he hauled in a career-long 78-yard touchdown pass after the 49ers bit hard on play-action. That left the Pro Bowl tight end wide open on a seam route. 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You get more consistent bounce in Australia, so you have more time to move your feet, like Australian keepers want to. We want to move our feet to get outside the line of the ball and take the ball on the inside hip as you move towards the slips.At Adelaide or Melbourne, at times, it doesnt bounce through consistently, so youve got to work hard. But traditionally Perth, Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney, they are good pitches that bounce through and give you time to move.Wicketkeeping to the spinners is generally pretty consistent in Australia too. When the legspinner is on, the ball wont often not spin when its supposed to. It might slide on a bit sometimes, but it wont do anything ridiculous. I think its a nice place to keep.What about in Asia? In the subcontinent, the biggest challenge is reverse swing to the fast bowlers. Everyone thinks keeping up to the spinners is hard work in those places. But I think those pitches are pretty consistent. They might be slow, but again it wont suddenly drag, or really spin or bounce very often. But when you keep to Wasim Akram, standing quite close to the stumps because the ball carries through low, with it swinging late, that is really difficult - a very hard part of those wicketkeepers jobs.And elsewhere around the world? Keeping in the West Indies is quite hard, because it doesnt bounce through like it does in Australia, which means youve got to move up a little bit, which cuts down the time youve got to move your feet to those fast men.In England, the bounce is good, comes through to you nicely, but it does wobble. Sometimes youve just got to survive and watch it into your gloves and not worry too much about moving. Just watch the ball and catch it.What does a wicketkeeper need to be successful in all of those conditions? A really solid set of basics. You need an idea of how your feet should go, your body height, your hands and your gloves. And most importantly, to be watching the ball, not watching for what might happen. If you have a good body position, youll be able to react. Youve got to trust that and take anything that you have to take. And then you have to do that 600 times in a day.How important is it to practise well? If you have a solid awareness of basics, then when the pressure comes on in a game, when its getting tight or youre running out of time to win the match, youre not thinking bad stuff. Youre not thinking ahead or worrying about the outcome. You know what you have to put in to do your job the best. And before you know it, the game is over, things are done and youve had a good afternoon.Mastering your basics is important so you know what works for you when you start thinking badly. You can go back to a set of simple statements that get you back on the ball.Where should a wicketkeeper take the ball - on the inside or outside of the body? Australian wicketkeepers, when were standing back to the quicks and the ball is bouncing nice and consistently, we like to take it on the inside hip. So thats the left hip if its a right-handed batsman and the right hip for a left-hander. We get our feet going and our body just outside the line of the ball.If it starts wobbling or if you havent got time for that, you just have to survive and catch it right in front of you. Ive got no problems resorting to that for a little period, until you get used to that wobble or that inconsistent bounce.What are the advantages of that technique? I think the wicketkeeper is moving better, doing that. Their rhythm is set up to go with the ball, whether the batsman misses or edges it. That allows your slips to spread out a bit more and you get a greater coverage from your slips cordon.Sometimes that doesnt work, though. Because some days a wicketkeeper doesnt feel as good as other days, so you have to position the slips based on how youre feeling on that day. You dont want to have a big, wide gap between yourself and first slip if youre not moving very well. Youll get caught out and the misery will get worse and worse.Should a keeper watch the ball or the edge of the bat? You have to only watch the ball. You have to forget the bat. Forget the batsman is there. Watch it and expect the batsman to miss it every ball. Be in position to take the ball, even when they hit it, just in case. If you concentrate on that for 15 to 20 minutes, it becomes natural and your brain is just doing that and the session goes well.When there is a nick and youre in great form, it feels like slow motion. Its just a delight to hear that edge. Here comes the ball, its on its way. If youre watching it, that is.What happens if you do watch the bat and not the ball? Youll be a split-second late. Either your fingers wont grasp around the ball, or itll be a jerky movement at the end, maybe to your right. You wont be powerful and smooth in your movement into the catch. You have a big chance of dropping it. Just those final reflexes will be too slow. If you are watching the bat, youll look surprised if the ball comes through. Thats when you know that you werent watching the ball.Whats the ideal body position for a wicketkeeper? It varies for different body shapes. You need to make sure youve got some power in your quads. That means knees slightly bent and your weight on the balls of your feet, not flat-footed, not on your heels or toes. Youve got to have some power, ready to go if you need it. If youre watching the ball only, youll be able to move nice and strongly to wherever you have to be.How do you know when the ball feels right in your hand? Theres a difference between catching the ball and catching the ball right. The sound it should make going into your gloves should be a clean, nice thud. You can hear when the ball scrapes into your gloves.You learnt a lot from Queensland wicketkeeper Peter Anderson. What did he teach you? He had a sharpness and fanaticism over everything he practised. Head over your gloves, having the power so you can get the gloves towards the bails quickly. You just practise that for hours so that it feels natural and thats how you do it in a match. Wed probably practise eight hours a week together on all facets of wicketkeeping.In the Australian team, how did you work together with your slips? We practised a lot. Im not sure teams do that enough at the moment, and when they do, they do it really hard - throw it hard, hit the ball really hard at the fielders. You can actually vary it - short and sharp catches, longer ones that put their hands under a bit of pressure. Or middle-range ones, where youre not only practising catching but the cordon practises decisions, whether to go or not to go.Youve got to get a good feel for the person next to you, as to what they know and feel about you. So Mark Taylor at first slip wwould have a fair knowledge of when I was going to go, so he either backed up or backed off.dddddddddddd Those decisions are more important than actual catching practice. Thats what youre cementing and reinforcing - your coordination and knowledge between each other. We had a wonderful slips cordon: Taylor, Allan Border, if he needed to go in there, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh at gully, [Shane] Warney snuck in there. So yeah, good catchers.Does the standard of todays wicketkeeping frustrate you? Yes, I think so. I dont mind the keepers who are good enough to do the job quite well. I dont mind that they are more known for their batting than their wicketkeeping, if they do a job behind the stumps. There arent too many absolute part-timers in there now. I think we see a few too many of them attempting it in T20, and T20, for me, is the game where you need your best keeper. The wickets dont do too much, so the impact of a brilliant stumping off a medium-pacer, or a class spinner, is huge in T20. So is the impact of a missed dismissal. You pick your best keeper because you dont need another batsman in 20 overs. You can bat the keeper anywhere you like. You dont really need all your batsmen in 20 overs.Whos the best current international wicketkeeper? They all have their moments. Its pretty even. Pakistans Sarfraz Ahmed seems to cope well with the tricky spinners theyve got. I saw the Sri Lankan wicketkeeper, Dinesh Chandimal, in this years Test at Galle against Australia. He kept unbelievably well to the left-arm chinaman [Lakshan Sandakan], the right-arm offie [Dilruwan Perera] and the left-arm orthodox, [Rangana] Herath. Chandimal is as good as it gets. Peter Nevill is a very good technician. England are still toing and froing with part-timers.What about MS Dhoni? Dhoni has been an unbelievable keeper for India. He should make so many more errors the way he keeps, but he doesnt. He gets the job done. He doesnt seem to practise very often, but his No. 1 priority is to get the job done. He doesnt care whether he sticks the foot out sometimes and stops it with his pad. As captain, hes got to think about the team, its fortune, and hes got a high level of spin bowler to keep to in difficult conditions. Its a real challenge and Im amazed how durable hes been, how long hes been able to maintain that position as wicketkeeper, captain and gun batsman.Did Adam Gilchrist finish off the traditional non-batting keeper as a member of an international side? Not really, no. I think that Gilly was good enough with the gloves. He was a wicketkeeper and an outstanding batsman. Probably the best batsman in the team, and a more than adequate wicketkeeper to do the job for Australia. Never sell his gloves anything short of that, because I think he was fine. He wasnt as good in his early years as he could have been. But he got it right towards the end. He doesnt fit into that category of wicketkeeper thats in there because of his batting. He was good enough with the gloves.Have teams since tended to want first and foremost a front-line batsman, and if they can keep a bit, thats an advantage? Maybe, but youre playing with fire there, trying to match Gilchrists batting. Good luck with that. Its like all the kids whove been bowling legspin over the last 20 years. Weve developed maybe one or two, thats it. Players like Gilchrist and Warne are once-in-a-generation players and may be impossible to emulate.I thought after Gilly what Australia needed was the best wicketkeeper, because our bowlers werent that good. Our bowlers werent creating the opportunities that Glenn McGrath and Warne used to. We had to make sure we took every single chance, so we needed a really strong wicketkeeper after Adam. Youve got to change what you need when the cycles of your team change.Does a wicketkeepers eyesight have to be really good? I kept in contact lenses. To be a first-class athlete in any sport, you need good eyesight, so yeah, its probably underrated. A lot of people dont know that they havent got good eyesight. Its certainly worth checking out.Did you ever get any vision training? No, not really. My optometrist always tried to get me to do some exercises to improve my vision. But she was always disappointed.Does a wicketkeeper have to be as fit as an outfielder? Fitter than an outfielder. A wicketkeeper has to be one of the fittest in the team. Batsmen get out and dont have to concentrate any more. A bowler is out of the attack and doesnt have to think about his set skill for a while. But a keeper has to do it day in day out for long periods.Its a real combination between aerobic fitness, to get through a day, and psychological fitness, so you can concentrate for a whole day. You have to ration out your concentration and switch down a lot.You have to be confident that your physical fitness is high, so you dont start thinking, Hell, Ive got two and a half hours to go here. That should never enter into your mind. And the days it does, youre in a bit of trouble. You need strength, speed, aerobic fitness, some endurance.How did you ration your concentration during a long day? You set the session up in the first 15 to 20 minutes. Make sure youre getting into really good habits. Then itll look after itself a little bit, so youre not anxious, youre not having to tell yourself all the time to do these things. It just flows much better. Then relax with your team-mates and find some fun out there. Before you know it, its lunch and then, before you know it, its tea. And then the day is over.What about taking stumpings? Whats the strategy and technique there? The whole goal of standing up to the stumps is to get your head over your gloves. So when youre catching the ball, you want your eyes right over the top of the gloves - a little bit of cushion in the catch, soft gloves. And then be as quick as you can to get it back and get the bail off. Forget the bat, watch the ball. Its about having the balance to do all that. Did keeping to Shane Warne make it easier to play him when you were batting? Not really. What you need when batting against Warne is a good technique. It doesnt matter how fast your feet are if you make a bad decision. You need a solid plan and an array of shots to keep some pressure on him. And then to get away with a risk or two, because most of the run-scoring options on a pitch thats supporting him are risky. Get away with your first few risks and then play a few shots, like a sweep shot, to get off strike; and work with the spin. Then youre a chance, but thats all.And to keep to him? Whats the secret? You need a real solid set of basics. Stay low, watch the ball and get your head over your gloves. You dont need anything more. ' ' '