Rodgers led the Packers 75 yards down the field for their first touchdown of the game to put Green Bay on the board for the first time in the game.
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So the team jumped on his back and he lifted them to a most improbable 27-23 win over the Lions.
“I’m not real happy when the offense gets the ball”, the Green Bay coach said.
That meant Green Bay had to try the old hook-and-lateral, which unless you are the University of Miami, rarely works.
Green Bay tried a hook-and-ladder lateral play on what was supposed to be the last play of the game, but the referees called a facemask penalty on the Lions’ Devin Taylor.
Richard Rodgers Sr. had to be proud of his son’s winning catch on the all-Cal connection.
Lions QB Matthew Stafford was so disgusted with the loss he threw his hat in despair, but Rodgers’ girlfriend, actress Olivia Munn, was pretty excited. The quarterback threw the ball, perhaps as high and far as he could, and his tight end found a way to get to it in front of a slew of players from both teams and leaped for the catch.
Rodgers – Richard, not Aaron – turned in his best game as a pro. “I ran down there, saw the ball, made sure I was in the endzone and went up and caught it”, said Richard Rodgers.
He will never forget the one he threw Thursday night, a play that might have saved the Green Bay Packers’ season.
Rodgers passed for 273 yards and two touchdowns and also scored on a 17-yard scramble for Green Bay (8-4), who rallied from a 20-point deficit. Wideout Calvin Johnson latched onto three of those scoring passes to end a four-game drought while running back Theo Riddick has 10 receptions for 134 yards and a score in his last two contests. “He was like ‘we’ve got to go forward, there’s no time left we’ve got to do something.’ So, it worked out in our favor, I guess”, said Richard Rodgers. That sack came when Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari briefly left the game, and his replacement was beaten by Ziggy Ansah. “The most incredible game of my life”. “I didn’t believe I touched it”.
Rodgers took two quick steps backward and caught the ball cleanly a yard inside the end zone – no Lions defenders had ever gotten between him and his quarterback. Bradley said Hurns, who is in the NFL’s concussion program, could get clearance today or even Saturday and play at the Titans….
After a Julius Peppers strip sack, the Packers got another score with Rodgers connecting with Davante Adams from eight yards out, to cut the lead down to six. Sunday night’s game between the Broncos Patriots ended with an overtime touchdown and Monday’s game between the Browns and Ravens ended with a blocked field goal returned for a touchdown.
Just like Chicago. Just like Detroit the first time.
Prater, who has booted 17 this season, hit a 51-yarder in the first quarter and added field goals of 34 and 42 yards.
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Aaron Rodgers led the Lions fightback when he scored on a 17-yard run with 3:04 left.
