When the game is on the line and you’re not wearing a Green Bay uniform, you do not want the ball in the hands of Aaron Rodgers.
The veteran quarterback is as clutch as they come, with the Cowboys ending up as his latest victims. With 13 seconds left in Sunday’s playoff game, Rodgers completed a 35-yard sideline catch to Jared Cook to set up the game-winning field goal and send the Packers into the NFC Championship Game.
Ever the humble guy, Aaron had this to say about the play.:
I said everybody kind of run over to the left, and get open — not exactly in those words, but that was basically the gist of it.
What ended up being the play was not something we talked about, but it was something that I thought about at various times throughout the season or throughout the week even. But it’s hard to kind of put a name necessarily on a play where we have a roll-out with a clear-out and everybody else kind of running to the left. Didn’t exactly have a name for that. But in situations like that [coach] Mike [McCarthy] will allow me to pick a play out of a selection of plays we have.
So basically, everybody ran to the left and hoped for the best. The play was nothing short of impressive with Cook literally staying in bounds by a toenail.
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