Aaron Rodgers set historic marks in Packers win vs. Seahawks

Seattle Seahawks’ DeShawn Shead breaks up a pass intended for Green Bay Packers’ Jared Cook during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, in Green Bay, Wis.

On that play, Rodgers injured his calf muscle and it would bother him the rest of the way. FiveThirtyEight is giving the 7-6 Packers a 30 percent chance of making the playoffs, up from 6 percent after the Washington debacle.

“This is such a rare occurrence for our team”, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. It was an effort that was as disappointing as it was concerning for a team that has its sights set on another Super Bowl run. You’re still playing through an injury, but at the same time when you put yourself out there, you can’t put your defense in jeopardy. “Both teams are at the disadvantage of the short week, so we compete every step of the way to get on track as fast as we can to put together a great game plan”.

The Seattle Times’ Bob Condotta says the Seahawks now must try to make sense of the worst loss they’ve suffered since 2010. Matt Barkley completed 20 of 32 passes for 212 yards and a touchdown. There are so many things you could blame it on but at the end of the day I’m a professional athlete and I get paid to get to the quarterback. “So you just have to kind of find that common ground there, and that’s really what you do during the series when we’re not on the field, when the defense is on the field”. We must now turn the page and move forward. The great thing is, we play next week. “But we have more continuity, which obviously has improved our execution and production”. That’s our only focus right now. And he was giving us opportunities to win games.

Still, the Seahawks have a major problem on their hands. The next week, Seattle won a hard-fought game at Dallas 13-12.

Green Bay Packers found their rhythm, but we’ll see if they were too late. When they have a window, they get through it even when they might not be the better team.

Many questions must still be answered about this 7-6 team that has three NFC North contests to close out the schedule: at Chicago, vs. Minnesota, at Detroit.

Rodgers and the Packers made it hard for Seattle to substitute normally. We had guys going in and out of the game again tonight with injury. “Luckily, we did what we were supposed to do today and played well”. “Everybody needs to get a wake-up call”.

Green Bay closes the season with games at Chicago next week, home against Minnesota and then at Detroit.

The Bears would dominate the next few years during the Lovie Smith era before the Packers took control of the rivalry again, winning 12 of the past 15 meetings since 2009.

“I am concerned about that”, Carroll said.

He wasn’t in the mood about talking about each one of his career-high five interceptions against the Green Bay Packers.

As the Packers ran the clock out in victory formation, Lane clobbered Cobb, knocking him a few yards backwards. It was a cloudy weather but this did not deter the fans from getting excited in seeing their favorite team arriving in the field.

A couple years later, the Seahawks opened the season beating the Pack down 36 – 16. They have connected on 57 touchdown passes overall, tying Hall of Famer Brett Favre and Antonio Freeman for the most touchdown passes from a quarterback to a receiver in franchise history. Wilson was at just 27.6.

That Carolina game was one of six games in his career in which Wilson has thrown two interceptions.

It was the fourth straight game Seattle has rushed for at least 120 yards and at least five yards per carry. He threw high but still catchable passes that bounced off the hands of Doug Baldwin and Troymaine Pope and right to Green Bay defenders.

The Seahawks failed on a 4th and 3 and their own 39 setting up Crosby’s 38 yard field goal and the rout was on.

GB-FG Crosby 38, 10:31.

GB-Janis 19 run (Crosby kick), 5:43. This club is a disappointing 2-4-1 on the road this season. Amazingly, the Packers have outscored the Bears by a single point over the almost century-long rivalry – 3,305 to 3,304. On opening day 1962, Boyd Dowler’s lost fumble was offset by seven Vikings’ turnovers, an imbalance that helped spark a 34-7 win. From 2013-15, the club was 16-8 away from home.