Packers WR Cobb released from hospital
In one of the most dramatic finishes in National Football League play-off history, the Cardinals outlasted the Packers 26-20 to advance to the NFC Championship game.
Aaron Rodgers had just 160 yards before a big 60-yard pass to Jeff Janis on fourth down from deep in their own territory.
Cardinals fans won’t have been the only ones feeling distinctly uncomfortbale as the Detroit Lions will have had a shiver run down their spine at the memory of Rodgers’ Hail Mary pass which ended their play-off hopes.
Cobb was hurt in the first quarter after stretching out for a diving 51-yard catch to the Arizona 3-yard and landing hard to the turf.
Heave Fitzgerald contemplated everything that had happened before overtime, the way Rodgers had snatched away the Cardinals victory with one last enormous heave to the end zone and shook his head.
Before the final seconds of regulation in the Arizona Cardinals’ win over the Green Bay Packers, it was a game that featured uneven performances by both quarterbacks.
It just never seemed like the Packers were totally with it or able to get things going. Blakeman picked up the coin and re-flipped it, but Rodgers said after Green Bay’s 26-20 loss that he would have called “heads” on the second toss. After referee Clete Blakeman attempted to flip the coin, Aaron Rodgers called tails, and that’s when the chaos started.
Damarious Randall, who moments earlier had made a key interception in the end zone, deflected a pass intended for Fitzgerald inside the 5-yard line and the ball sailed into the end zone into the hands of Michael Floyd for a 9-yard TD catch.
The beauty of the Rodgers throw was the calm with which he made it. The Cardinals were blitzing, many quarterbacks would have panicked.
“It was just tossed in the air and did not turn over at all and landed on the ground”, he said.
The 32-year-old Fitzgerald, who had eight catches for 176 yards, left to chants of “Larry!” “He comes out and throws three touchdowns and leads us in the second half with the way he performed”.
Signora said in an email to The Associated Press on Sunday that a team “gets only one choice to declare heads or tails”. Following an incompletion, Palmer and Fitzgerald hooked up again on a shovel pass for the winning score to set off a celebration on the field and in the stands at University of Phoenix Stadium. “It was a roller coaster on the sideline”, coach Bruce Arians told reporters.
Palmer finished the night with 349 yards along with three touchdowns and two picks.
But, Wrolstad turned to the Patriots players and said, “You win the toss”.
TODAY’s TMJ4’s Lance Allan stopped by Wisconsin’s Afternoon News to talk about the debates spinning from Saturday night’s game.
The Cardinals, who were favored by Vegas to win this years Super Bowl, now go on to face the victor between tomorrows match-up between the Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks.