In playoff mode, Aaron Rodgers, Packers beat Redskins 35-18

But in their NFC Wild Card matchup against the Washington Redskins on Sunday, that Green Bay magic seem to flow, and the Packers suddenly look like they are primed for another deep playoff run. On third-and-2 with 45 seconds to play in the half, Davante Adams made a great catch along the boundary for a 20 yard gain.

Starks ran the ball down near the 10 as the Redskins burned all three of their timeouts, and K Mason Crosby made it a three-score game with a 29-yard field goal, giving the Packers a 35-18 lead with 4:39 to go.

Russell Wilson was 13 of 26 on completed passes for 142 yards and threw a scoring pass to Doug Baldwin for the Seahawks’ (11-6) first points of the game which came early in the fourth quarter. “And this is my first time going through that process in the National Football League, so it’s new to me, and I don’t know a whole lot about it. So we’ll see how it goes”.

“I thought we just made the adjustments we needed to (do)”, linebacker Clay Matthews said.

Green Bay (1-0) will face the Arizona Cardinals (0-0) next Saturday night (January 16th) at 8:15 ET in Arizona. It’s a rematch of a Week 16 game that the Cardinals dominated 38-8.

A 35-18 wild-card loss to Green Bay on Sunday was painful because they expected so much more after a worst-to-first surge in the NFC East.

“We got the tempo up, and they couldn’t keep up”. Rogers and the Packers offense couldn’t get going and the Redskins offense took advantage as Cousins led a 7-play 64 yard drive that culminated with a 24 yard Cousins TD Pass to Jordan Reed to make the score 11-0 Redskins as Hopkins missed extra point. The Packers were leading by two touchdowns at the time, but with six minutes on the clock the game was not over. “Then we scored to [start] the third quarter; we came out of the tunnel like I wanted to, to get the lead back in the third quarter”. Each of the four games features at least one Super Bowl-winning quarterback, and there are nine championship rings among them. After the Redskins gave away a third-down conversion for too many men on the field, Rodgers had plenty of time in the pocket to hit James Jones for 34-yards on an ad-lib play.

The Packers had trouble moving the ball to start the game, but the offense became increasingly fluid as the game went on. Four plays later, Reed hauled in a 24-yard touchdown reception to extend the lead to 11-0.

“It’s important to go into the playoffs with some momentum and a rhythm”, Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins said.

“Aaron was playing a little fast at the beginning of the game and just settled in”, Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. For the first time in just over 31 years, the defense earned a postseason safety; this time, standout rookie Preston Smith sacked Aaron Rodgers in the end zone for 2 points. The safety, however, proved to be Washington’s only sack of the game against what was supposed to be a weak offensive line for Green Bay.

Minnesota’s Blair Walsh shanked a 27-yard field goal in the closing seconds after holder Jeff Locke couldn’t spin the ball to get the laces out, handing the Seattle Seahawks a 10-9 victory in their wild-card playoff round game.

Then less than a minute later, the Redskins got the ball back after a fumble recovery by their cornerback BASHAUD BREELAND. The Cal product extended the play with his legs and was able to find Randall Cobb in the end zone for a touchdown against Will Blackmon. Rodgers’ receivers also stepped up their play, with James Jones hauling in seven passes, majority contested, for 81 yards. After 17 yards at halftime, the Packers finished with 141 yards on 32 carries. After that, it was a snowball effect of us not making many plays and them making the plays.