It’s just a shame that the offense couldn’t play the whole game with the same fire they had in the first quarter as they just disappeared. “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”. “You want to get the ball into the end zone and you want to get people around it. However you orchestrate that, I mean you don’t want to throw it short and you don’t want to throw it out”, Belichick said. 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. The Lions’ DE believes he didn’t grab Rodgers’ mask, so he didn’t understand why the ref threw a penalty flag.
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But like two years ago when they trailed by 23 points against the Dallas Cowboys, the Packers never gave up. The Bears lost the NFC North championship in 2013 with a loss to Green Bay; had Chris Conte been able to defend Randall Cobb, the Bears would have finished 9-7 and one-half game of an 8-7-1 Packers team. “We played a good game – just one play”.
“Defensively, it’s sort of the reverse of that”. After the win, Staubach told reporters that he closed his eyes and said a Hail Mary when he was knocked down on the play.
Adrian Peterson respects that play, but he doesn’t respect how Green Bay was given the opportunity for one final shot.
After the fumble in the end zone, which turned into a score for Green Bay, a fumble recovery for the defense and an offensive touchdown, the Packers completed two touchdowns in 98 seconds to turn the game in a different direction.
Because the Lions didn’t see the “Hail Mary” coming, Richard Rodgers was able to jump up freely to come down with Rodgers pass.
While McCarthy said his team earned some time off, the Lions will have to stew over this one for a few days.
Rodgers passed for 273 yards and two touchdowns and also scored on a 17-yard scramble for Green Bay (8-4), which rallied from a 20-point deficit.
In the first half, they rushed for 16 yards and threw for 62. In fact, it took that Hail Mary, a near miracle, for the Packers to even win the game against a losing football team.
Then Aaron Rodgers rolled to his right.
The Green Bay Packers’ playoff odds mushroomed from 66.5 percent to 92.08 percent, per the analytics site numberFire, when Aaron Rodgers connected with Richard Rodgers on the game-winning “Hail Mary” pass Thursday night.
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Furthermore, the Packers promoted John Crockett from the practice squad before Thursday’s game and released Alonzo Harris, another odd move.
The Philadelphia Eagles listed quarterback Sam Bradford as probable and running back Ryan Mathews was ruled out for tomorrow’s game against the New England Patriots. There wasn’t a chance in the world the Packers could actually win this game.
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During Thursday’s dramatic finish, Lions defensive end Devin Taylor was called for a penalty after his hand perhaps grazed the facemask of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
