Everything clicked for this team on that game winning play Thursday night. Rodgers, with no place to go (and no one behind him to lateral the ball to) was doomed and with no time on the clock, the game was over. He seemingly accidentally hooked his thumb in Aaron Rodgers’ facemask before his hand slipped to Rodgers’ shoulder pad.
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Outside of the Super Bowl (title in the 2010 season), to me, thats our greatest regular-season win, said McCarthy, whos in his 10th year as Green Bays coach.
“I couldn’t sleep, so I sat up and watched it a few times on TV”, he added Friday, less than 24 hours after the stunning victory. It was a phenomenal play..
The media quickly dubbed it the “Motor City Miracle” and “Miracle in Motown” and other names.
If the throw had been lower and reached the end zone faster, Richard Rodgers might not have had time to settle under it. But Aaron Rodgers tossed the ball high into the air, and it was clear someone on the Packers (8-4) would have a chance to come down with it in the end zone.
The throw was unbelievable that Packers coach Mike McCarthy called it the best one he’s ever seen. It capped a second-half comeback from 20 points down, the largest in Rodgers eight seasons as a starter.
Had Green Bay lost again, they would have dropped to a 7-5 record, two losses behind the divisionleading Minnesota Vikings (8-3). So to bounce back and put ourselves in position to hopefully take back the North, it means a great deal.. A game is an interlocking series of pieces that all play a role.
On Thursday in Detroit, Lions defensive end Devin Taylor fell to a similar fate, when after several laterals in an effort to extend a game in which the Lions led 23-21, his hand got enough of Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ face mask to warrant a flag. Running back James Starks fumbled at the Lions five-yard-line but the ball bounced forward and wide receiver Randall Cobb landed on it in the end zone. Thats what resulted in Eddies (reduced) reps..
Had the Lions won, though, Taylor would’ve been among the heroes after destroying the backups on the right side of the Packers offensive line for two third-down sacks.
First, remember the last guy who was supposed to block on a potential game-ending play and then failed to do so?
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Richard Rodgers was able to drift into the end zone without much resistance, and he had nobody really obstructing his view of the ball. “He’s got to throw it because in real time, watching it, I thought that there was a facemask and then when you go and look back in slow-mo, you realize that there was no facemask”.
