Cards win! And fans out in full force for big game

With wide receiver Davante Adams missing the game with an injury and top pass-catcher Randall Cobb leaving the game early in the second quarter with a bruised lung, Janis stepped up to catch seven passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns.

The Packers’ excitement was short lived, however.

Arizona won the coin toss for overtime – after the referees declared the first toss hadn’t flipped – and quickly put the Packers (11-7) away. After completing 25 of 41 passes for 349 yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions, the “gunslinger” won his first playoff game on a shovel pass of all things.

The Arizona Cardinals beat the Green Bay Packers in overtime in the divisional round of the playoffs, and the New England Patriots ended the Kansas City Chiefs winning streak at home on Saturday. And came down with the ball in his belly for a regulation-ending touchdown, as 65,089 fans here swallowed their breaths and North Americans watching on TV went GTFOH.

That touchdown capped an astounding drive in which the Packers, trailing by a touchdown, moved 96 yards in 55 seconds with no timeouts. It was Fitzgerald’s only touchdown of the entire game, with a total of 8 receptions and 176 yards.

The Cardinals play the victor of today’s Seattle-Carolina game for the title. “No matter what happened on the last play, you’ve got to go good, bad or ugly on the next play, and that’s basically what our football team did”.

Rodgers launched a desperate pass into the end zone at double-covered Janis, who leaped into the air and pulled down the ball for a stunning TD with no time left on the clock. “There were freakish plays made by both teams”.

But as time wound down from 10 minutes left to four in the fourth quarter, Palmer mostly passed the Cardinals 80 yards for a go-ahead touchdown.

The Packers tied the game on a 41-yard Hail Mary pass on the final play of regulation, sending the NFC divisional playoff to overtime tied at 20. The veteran quarterback read the Green Bay defense correctly and flipped it to Fitzgerald for the easy score.

The Packers had all of their five starting offensive linemen for the first time since November 22 at Minnesota, a 30-13 victory for Green Bay.

Rodgers: With so many of Green Bay’s skill-position players hurt, his scrambling was essential to keeping the Packers viable to win this game.

The Cardinals countered with a 28-yard field goal from Chandler Catanzaro toward the end of the third.

Early in the fourth quarter, Palmer was intercepted by Packers safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix. If the Cards are going to advance to their second-ever Super Bowl, Palmer will need to be more accurate, and Arizona’s offensive line will need to open more running lanes for Johnson and Andre Ellington.