Remember when you were a kid playing touch football all in the back yard? Your quarterback takes a twig and sketches out the play — “you go short, you go medium, and you stop then run like hell for the garage and I’ll hit you!” Well, that’s just about how the incomparable Aaron Rodgers reportedly did it on the key completion of the game — a 36-yard dart to Jared Cook on third and twenty from his own 32, a play that started with just 12 seconds left in the game and set up the game-winning field goal kick by Mason Crosby to lift the Pack to a 34-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys yesterday.
Packer wideout Randall Cobb later told a reporter: “the final play was essentially written up in the dirt by Rodgers before the snap, with the quarterback telling each receiver where to go.”
AR and the Pack will match up with the Atlanta Falcons and their red-hot QB Matt Ryan in Atlanta this coming Sunday with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. Expect the air to be filled with footballs in a high-scoring contest.
PWS
01/17/17