Packers beat the Lions with miracle Hail Mary on final play

“I knew I was going to have to buy some time to allow them to get in to the end zone”, Aaron Rodgers stated. “We just didn’t make the play”.

But frankly, I love those. “I’m very fortunate to be a Green Bay Packer, and you live for days like this, to have a chance at the end and to have something miraculous happen”. According to the letter of the law, it should not have been called a penalty, as Pro Football Talk points out, since Taylor did not seem to grab onto Rodgers’ facemask, but rather inadvertently bumped it with his thumb.

On television, Phil Simms said Rodgers could reach the end zone if he could get out of the pocket and get a running start into his throw.

“I blacked out”, Rodgers said.

The tight end, who is 6-foot-4, played basketball at the University of California. He boxed out the Lions’ defenders.

DETROIT (AP) — It’s a play Mike McCarthy says the Packers practice every Saturday — because they’ve been victimized by this type of desperation heave in the past and want their defense to be prepared to stop it.

The Packers needed good fortune to finally break through during their ensuing possession.

Rodgers completed 24-of-36 passes for 273 yards, two passing touchdowns and an interception.

After a couple of laterals, the ball wound up in his hands again with no one behind him.

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers: “This one, obviously, ranks up there as one of the greatest joys on the field that we’ve had together as a team and personally”.

Forget that Green Bay had already clawed its way back from a 20-0 deficit at halftime; now, the entire game rested on the right arm of Aaron Rodgers. He was intercepted once. There wasn’t a chance in the world the Packers could actually win this game.

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Ezekiel Ansah also continued to rack up the sacks, adding another one to his NFC-leading total.

The other four who were listed as questionable are active — Calvin Johnson, safety Glover Quin, defensive tackle Caraun Reid, and guard Larry Warford.

“It’s the most incredible game of my life”, a completely out-of-breath Rodgers said on CBS after getting pooped running down the field to celebrate. DET, A.Abdullah 13-67, M.Stafford 2-22, J. Bell 8-5, T.Riddick 1-4, G.Tate 1-3. More important, he appears to have overcome his bout with fumble-itis.

Green Bay’s first touchdown came off its own mistake. The ball rolled into the end zone, where Cobb fell on it for the Packers score. However, Johnson was otherwise held in check after his three-touchdown performance against Philadelphia on Thanksgiving.

The Lions killed almost eight minutes off the clock early in the fourth on a drive that resulted in a field goal to give Detroit a 23-14 lead.

Prater’s 51-yard field goal got Detroit on the board.

Down by two with one play left and no time remaining (thanks to a controversial facemask penalty), the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers bought time for his receivers to get downfield. “We had plenty of time throughout the game, plenty of opportunities to make sure it never got to that point where they were involved in the game. “The ref called what he called, there was nothing I could do about it.. Aaron Rogers ended up back with the ball and was thrown to the ground violently by Devin Taylor with no time left, seemingly ensuring a Detroit victory.