Lions coach Jim Caldwell refuses to rehash loss on Hail Mary

James Jones, who spent last season with the Oakland Raiders, returned to Green Bay once Nelson was injured August 23, but the results have been mixed.

Entering the game, Chicago hadn’t scored an offensive touchdown in its previous three games against Green Bay, according to ChicagoBears.com.

“It’s tough to swallow”, Detroit receiver Golden Tate said.

Since no quarterback can throw the football 80 yards, the Packers had to resort to lateraling the ball back and forth, a desperate strategy. There is a good possibility, even after the beating the Vikings took against the Seahawks that he Vikings will make the playoffs.

As both teams entered into their second consecutive Thursday night contest, their respective arrows were pointing in opposite directions. “We had plenty of guys back there, we had plenty of guys”.

Heading into the locker room without a single point on the board was … mortifying.

The Vikings got behind early and had to abandon their run game in an attempt to get back into the game. Im not going back there, Im going that way, forward-focused (he pointed forward).

Rodgers and the once-potent offense looked lethargic. After a long and anxious off-season, this certainly seemed true of the Packers.

Midway through the third quarter, however, the tide began to turn.

When Rodgers set himself and threw toward the end zone, two Lions were near opposite sidelines around their own 40-yard line.

On the next snap, Julius Peppers stripped the ball from Stafford and Jake Ryan recovered it for Green Bay at the Detroit 12. As quickly as the Lions lead had come – it was gone.

They probably wouldn’t have been in position to send up that prayer if not for outside linebacker Julius Peppers’ strip-sack of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford.

Rodgers connects with Rodgers for a 61 yard Hail Mary that has another Rodgers (Richard Rodgers Sr.) reminscing about The Play.

Detroit jumped out to a 17-0 lead in the first quarter.

Now Detroit’s three-game winning streak is over, and the best the Lions (4-8) can hope for is a. 500 record.

Rodgers calmly took the field, depleted offense in tow, and put the team on his shoulders. The Lions mustered only two field goals the rest of the way. A miss here, a non-call on a defensive pass interference against Jared Abbredaris would have been a game-breaker for the Packers.

In other words, he expected a lateral play. Aaron Rodgers and Richard Rodgers had huge games, while Eddie Lacy and Randall Cobb were nonexistent. The Packers defeated the Lions 27-23. “So we’ve kind of made it a defensive play”. My guess right now, they will end up with the 6th seed.

The touchdown was as magical a play as can be recalled in recent memory.

Reminded that there have been other Hail Mary passes but no plays quite like the one with the band on the field, the elder Rodgers didn’t change his mind.

It felt like a Super Bowl win.

McCarthy rewarded his resilient team by giving them the entire weekend off. The Packers don’t play again until December 13, when they host the Dallas Cowboys. For most of the season, especially the past six weeks, it has been the defense keeping the Packers afloat.

It feels good; and we’ll take it.