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? “Therefore, it is, and we just got to find a way to make a play”. However, things turned sour for the then leading team when Devin Taylor’s thumb got caught in the face mask of Rodgers with roughly six seconds left in the game.
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The Packers got the win in Week 13, but is certainly was not because of Lacy.
Just when you thought you had seen it all.
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. So maybe we should give the refs a free pass on this one.
With the ball at the Green Bay 39, Detroit rushed only three players, leaving the other eight to cover the expansive territory between the line of scrimmage and the end zone.
The Packers have some time to figure out their ground game as they have an extra few days of rest. The Packers only had 78 yards of total offense before the break.
Rodgers then scrambled to allow the receivers of the Green Bay Packers to run to the end zone. And the Detroit Lions need some new coaches and players, for blowing a 20 point lead at home, with boneheaded penalties and defensive schemes.
For some reason, Detroit had guys all over the field.
Stafford was 23 of 35 for 220 yards and two scores.
They punted with 23 seconds left giving the ball to the Packers who had no timeouts and 79 yards between them and the end zone. With the Packers attempting lateral heroics, Aaron Rodgers was tackled with no time on the clock. A personal foul facemask penalty is not one of those that will go to the booth.
“It appeared that he was a force out there for an extended period of time and did a nice job in a number of different areas”, Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. 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.
“Tough one to lose”. Given that the amount in illegal betting reaches an exponentially higher sum, fortunes surely were won and lost based on Green Bay’s change of fortune last night.
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“And I think we played that way up until all of about a couple flashes of that ball game, ” Caldwell said. “The initiative was more for special teams, but as we got going in the game and the things that were happening in the game and with his running style, I made a decision to stick him in there and he gave us a big spark”.
