![]() ![]() The defending Super Bowl champion Packers returned to the Georgia Dome nine months after their dominant performance against the Falcons in the Divisional Round of the playoffs. Packers 24, Falcons 14 () Aaron Rodgers: 26-39, 396 yards, 2 TDs, 117.0 quarterback rating Ryan improved to 19-1 at home as a starting quarterback. The kick went through, and the Packers were on the wrong end of a three point loss. Matt Ryan played his best contest against the Packers, completing 24-of-28 passes for 198 yards and a touchdown, and easily drove the Falcons down for a game-winning field goal. ![]() It was the costliest of the five penalties called on Green Bay’s special teams. Eric Weems returned the ensuing kick 40 yards, but a facemask penalty on the Packers gave Atlanta the ball on the Green Bay 49 yard line. Months before the Packers decimated the Falcons in the postseason, Green Bay came up just short against a team destined for the top seed in the NFC and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.Ī bullet pass to Jordy Nelson tied the game at 17-17 with under a minute left, but the Packers special teams collapsed. Falcons 20, Packers 17 () Aaron Rodgers: 26-35, 344 yards, 2 TDs (1 passing, 1 rushing), 114.5 quarterback rating The postseason run before Super Bowl XLV helped change the narrative on Rodgers from overrated to all-time great. We know Rodgers now to be one of the top quarterbacks to have ever played the position. The leaky defense was held together by Rodgers, who never allowed the Packers to trail by more than seven points during the season. In the 2010 season, the Packers’ six losses came by a combined 20 points. While Tebow-mania was sweeping the country around the same time, legendary hot take machine Skip Bayless tweeted, “You’d better believe I’m taking Tebow over in last 2. Green Bay had narrowly made the playoffs, and Rodgers was a victim of his defense letting him down at the end of games.Ī few months before the season began, a senior NFL writer from Bleacher Report said of Rodgers, “ is a more athletic, more effective version of former Buffalo and Jacksonville quarterback Rob Johnson.” His rushing touchdown also provided us with a rare sighting of the discount double-check.īut before the game and throughout the season, many were extremely critical of Rodgers. In his greatest performance with the Packers, Rodgers was 10-for-10 on third down and recorded the fifth-highest completion percentage (86.1) in postseason history. And because the Packers have been winners for much of Aaron Rodgers’ tenure, it’s easy to forget how criticized he was prior to the team’s Super Bowl XLV victory. History is written by the winners, the old saying goes. Packers 48, Falcons 21 (, NFC Divisional Round) Aaron Rodgers: 31-36, 366 yards, 4 TDs (3 passing, 1 rushing), 136.8 quarterback rating Let’s rank Rodgers’ six performances against the Falcons: 1. It’s been almost nine years since Rodgers threw an interception against the Falcons, and that lone interception came in the quarterback’s fifth career start.Īltogether, the Packers and Falcons have matched up for some intense contests since head coach Mike McCarthy and Rodgers began wreaking havoc on the NFL. To say he’s been superb in his career against the Falcons is an understatement he’s averaged 332 passing yards and has a sparkling 122.2 quarterback rating, his personal best against any other team in the NFC. Do not duplicate in any form without permission.Aaron Rodgers will face off against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday for the seventh time in his career. ![]() Lance Medow: If there's one stat that jumps off the page from Sunday's loss to the Packers, it's that Green Bay went seven of 13 on third down (eight of those downs were for eight yards or more). Missed opportunities for the defense to get off the field and force the Packers to either punt or settle for a field goal was a huge storyline in the game and the best example to showcase that issue was on a Packers 14-play, 75-yard touchdown drive that ate up 7:15 in the third quarter and padded Green Bay's lead 24-13. The Packers faced four third downs on that drive and three of them were converted as a result of a penalty or execution on Green Bay's part. The first third down was a third and six from the New York 46-yard line. Aaron Rodgers' pass to Davante Adams was incomplete but Sam Beal was called for pass interference handing Green Bay a first down. Later in the drive, the Packers failed to convert a third and ten from the Giants' 35-yard line but they decided to go for it on fourth down and Rodgers connected with Geronimo Allison for 15 yards to keep the drive alive. ![]()
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