Rodgers added two TD throws in a dominant second half for the Packers, both to Cobb - who tied an NFL playoff record with three TD catches. It was Rodgers’ second TD pass of the quarter (the first was to Davante Adams). And Randall Cobb just made an excellent, instinctive play. It gives your receivers a chance to catch that ball. “To throw that ball with the arc, that’s really the key to it. “First, you’ve got to have the protection,” Packers head coach Mike McCarthy said. There, inches in front of the back line of the end zone, a few yards left of the goalposts, Cobb easily caught the pass for the half-ending score that put Green Bay up, 14-6. Green Bay receiver Randall Cobb - who afterward said he wasn’t even sure he’d get to play for the first time in three weeks on a still-injured ankle - squeezed to the back of the pack of the usual mixed throng of players preparing to jump and jostle. Just another HAIL MARY! #NYGvsGB #GoPackGo - Green Bay Packers January 8, 2017įrom the New York 42, with 0:06 on the clock and Green Bay up 7-6, Rodgers dropped back from the right hash, planted and lofted a ball that looked overthrown from the press box. On Sunday, as the first half closed in Green Bay’s 38-13 carving of the New York Giants in the weekend’s second NFC wild-card playoff game, Rodgers did it again. Moments earlier, Rodgers had kept the desperation drive alive with a 61-yard completion to Janis on 4th-and-20 from Green Bay’s four-yard line with 53 seconds left.

If only everybody’s prayers had such a success rate.Ī year ago last month, Rodgers completed a 61-yarder to Richard Rodgers at game’s end to beat Detroit.Ī year ago this coming weekend he completed a 41-yarder to Jeff Janis at the end of regulation at Arizona, to force overtime in an NFC divisional playoff game. At least when Aaron Rodgers throws it.īecause when the Green Bay Packers quarterback heaves it high and deep at the end of a half, it’s not a prayer.

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