Three of them are out of the play altogether, and when the ball did come down, there were three Packers who could have made a play on it, and just one Lion.
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“We weren’t in a position to get our hands on it”, Caldwell lamented.
The NFL’s head of officiating offered a somewhat ambiguous defense of the facemask penalty that gave the Green Bay Packers one final play to complete a Hail Mary in their 27-23 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thursday.
Green Bay scored again with 4:06 left in the quarter after forcing a turnover. 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. The ball got all the way back to the quarterback near the original line of scrimmage, and for a split-second, the game appeared over.
But it wasn’t, because Taylor’s hand brushed Rodgers’ facemask.
Caldwell said he thought they would try another lateral. “If you look at it, from my perspective, Rodgers throws it to Rodgers”.
“Lions linebacker Darryl Tapp said to The Detroit News, “We played 60 minutes”, We needed to play another 10 or so phantom, un-clocked seconds to take care of what we started”. “I felt good about throwing it to the end zone from the 40, so I was just kind of looking at the rush and moving around”.
“Bill Belichick wants to make everything reviewable, and I tend to agree with him when things like this happen, because at the end of the day, the reason we have replay is to make sure to get the plays called right so that the team that deserves to win should win”, Esiason said.
“Man, that’s something I don’t know about”, he said.
This insane play wasn’t just dumb luck.
Welcome to another edition of Highlight of the Week, where we feature videos of heart-stopping sports plays, such as last week’s CFL game-winning touchdown. Taylor had two sacks, part of a strong effort by a defensive front that overwhelmed Green Bay’s banged-up offensive line at times. You realize the Packers had to go 79 yards with no timeouts in that span, right?
Rodgers then scrambled to allow the receivers of the Green Bay Packers to run to the end zone.
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On the next snap, Julius Peppers stripped the ball from Stafford and Jake Ryan recovered it for Green Bay at the Detroit 12. In what could only be described as an awe-inspiring turn of events, the Green Bay Packers saw themselves beating the Detroit Lions courtesy of a 61-yard touchdown pass of their prized quarterback. Rodgers throws it to Rodgers, not Aaron to Richard but Richard to Aaron, that started the whole thing. First James Starks ran the ball from Detroit’s 8 and then fumbled it into the end zone where Randall Cobb recovered it for a touchdown.
