Rodgers, Packers score upon 5 drives beneath one row, knock Redskins through playoffs, 35-18

To the third-quarter clock ticking down, and also the heat forthcoming upon second and also long, Aaron Rodgers fireplace one rope of a spend 15 landscaping to heavy receiver Randall Cobb at the 50-yard line - both yards beyond both the first-down markers. One grin crept across Rodgers’s look as the quarter ended.

When of past due, grins have remained unusual for the Organic Bay Packers as they joined Sunday’s first-round playoff online game towards the Washington Redskins on FedEx Field having gave up two straight. Competition had utilized a good injury-riddled offensive road and battered Rodgers, robbing him on his usual holidays.

However on Weekend night, order made been restored. Both the 2014 NFL MVP proved also masterful for that Redskins’ defense. At the same time, Green Bay’s defense access ways to relax Kirk Counterparts and his charge on impressive moments early in both the game and also to be able to start the moment half. And so, beneath a 35-18 defeat , both the Redskins’ turnaround season arrived to be able to an death.

Rodgers and his teammates used which 10-play, 76-yard, 5-minute 39-second drive which spanned completion of the third quarter and also originate of both the fourth - which remained capped by one two-yard Eddie Lacy touchdown performed - to answer the wind out on the Redskins’ sails. Which grade put both the Packers through reach on 32-18.

A season’s-best audience of 81,327 crowded to the Redskins’ stadium to benefit from the team’s at first playoff game in 3 seasons. They will woulded like to witness Washington’s at first playoff victory since the 2005 time, and the at first back home since 2000.