LANDOVER, Md. (AP) – This was not the lesson the Washington Redskins had in mind.
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“The playoffs bring it out of all of us”.
In the next breath, Knighton added: “I learn from winning, not losing”.
Minnesota was not much better, but they held the ball for almost 18 minutes and were better able to adjust their passing game, with Teddy Bridgewater completing 9 of 13 passes for 68 yards.
Washington has finally jettisoned the RGMe experiment in favor of Kirk Cousins, who may have done enough to earn him a big contract there or elsewhere.
The Packers’ problem this season has been their offensive line, with injuries and poor form leading to them conceding 51 sacks, the fifth highest in the league. We came out of the tunnel like I wanted to, to get the lead back in the third quarter. The defense is dominant again, and Russell Wilson is back as one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in the league. “We’re going to really have to up our game”.
“And they just kept trucking”. The fourth drive gained 1 yard and ended when Quinton Dunbar – who was a wide receiver in training camp – broke up a pass to Jones.
As for the Redskins, the Cardinals did not play them in 2015.
A block-in-the-back penalty on Green Bay on the 57-yard Tress Way punt backed the Packers up at their own eight-yard line for their second possession.
“That first quarter, we had some confidence”, linebacker Ryan Kerrigan said.
These teams are trending in opposite directions, which is why the Redskins have emerged as the trendiest “upset” pick in wild card weekend. Green Bay is 1-0 in the new season – the playoffs. “It’s the way you need to play, and we’re going to have to play that way moving forward”.
Neither team had a great first drive, but Green Bay had an especially slow first quarter, and Washington’s defense drew first blood. They gained all of 11 yards heading into the second period, and they trailed by double digits.
Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers had an opportunity to steal the NFC North in the last matchup of the regular campaign but fell short and are second with a 10-6 streak.
Fans bundle up before an NFL wild-card football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Minneapolis.
ABOUT THE REDSKINS (9-7): With Washington already having locked up the NFC East title, Cousins played only one half in last week’s 34-23 victory at Dallas, throwing three scoring passes to give him 11 touchdowns and no interceptions in the last three games.
Rodgers connected with Randall Cobb and Davante Adams in the end zone en route to a 17-11 halftime lead.
Notes: Preston Smith’s sack of Rodgers produced the first safety for the Redskins in a playoff game since December 1984, against Chicago…. This is a team that few expected to see in the postseason, but the moves Jay Gruden and GM Scot McCloughan made this season are ones that put the team in a good position to make waves, however small.
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Aaron Rodgers has been a Super Bowl champion and a two-time NFL MVP.
