The Green Bay Packers stunned the Detroit Lions 27-23 Thursday night on a 61-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers to Richard Rodgers. At the pass’s summit, the Packers had won the game.
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JULIUS PEPPERS, PACKERS LINEBACKER: “Everyone’s just happy, it’s just one of those feelings, you can’t describe, you just want to get down there and give em big hug”. The Packers will be back in action next Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, and Lacy’s playing time will nearly certainly be closely monitored.
Rodgers (12) smiles during his post game interview after the game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. The Lions entered the game as a 3.5-point underdog. Setting up the last of seven catches on the night for the second year tight end, and the Hail Mary to win the game.
There was certainly far less contact on the Rodgers play than on the play from a few weeks back when Mike Neal of the Packers hit Teddy Bridgewater in the helmet and seemed to grab his facemask while completing a sack.
If I were National Football League commissioner, I would push a rule making all plays reviewable in the final two minutes, when one play really can be more important than all the ones that came before it. You say it would bring the game to a screeching halt? But it was only during warm-ups yesterday that Aaron Rodgers experimented with the ridiculous amount of loft he would eventually put on the victor.
“As the play was developing, and I saw Aaron got outside, I thought to myself, wow, if [Richard] can get it up there, he’s going to get it”, Rodgers Sr. said, via Bill Voth of Black and Blue Review.
Aaron Rodgers finished 24 of 36 for 289 yards with two TDs and an interception. “He had laterals and he caught the winning touchdown”. With one untimed down left from his own 39, Rogers heaved the ball into the endzone and Richard Rodgers caught it for the game winning TD. “That’s just me being a dad”. Aaron Rodgers threw to James Jones about 20 yards downfield, then the Packers began lateraling.
And after losing four of its previous five games, Green Bay (8-4) stayed on the heels of the NFC North-leading Minnesota Vikings. Detroit had plenty of people in the end zone, but the Lions may have misjudged the high throw.
Detroit went ahead 17-0 after its first three drives and capped the opening possession of the third quarter with a field goal to go ahead 20-0.
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The Packers’ decimated offensive line, which started the game without right tackle Bryan Bulaga and right guard T.J. Lang, lost center Corey Linsley to a reinjured ankle in the first half and left tackle David Bakhtiari briefly in the fourth quarter because of a reinjured knee.
