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Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers erstwhile again person made definite they won’t person to permission Lambeau Field for the league playoffs.
They’re hoping it works retired amended for them this time.
Rodgers threw 2 touchdown passes, A.J. Dillon ran for 2 much scores and the Packers routed the Minnesota Vikings 37-10 connected Sunday nighttime to wrapper up the NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed.
“It decidedly feels amazing,” Dillon said. “It’s thing we’re continuously moving toward, we’re striving toward, to get that. We cognize however important it is to person teams travel done Lambeau.”
The Packers (13-3) are the lone NFL squad with an unbeaten location grounds and person a accidental to scope the Super Bowl without leaving Lambeau Field. Sunday night’s crippled exemplified the imaginable vantage the Packers person playing location games successful January, arsenic the somesthesia was 11 degrees with a upwind chill of 1 conscionable earlier kickoff.
The Packers person won 13 consecutive regular-season location games but lost 31-26 astatine location to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful past season’s NFC title game. The Packers haven’t reached the Super Bowl since their 2010 rubric and person mislaid successful the league title crippled 4 of the past 7 seasons.
“Last twelvemonth we didn’t get that bully Green Bay weather,” Rodgers said. “Tonight was 1 of those nights. We haven’t had a crippled similar this successful a portion temperature-wise. This was different. It is different, the full consciousness of it. I consciousness similar teams tin interruption a small spot easier erstwhile it is this acold due to the fact that there’s an excuse — the weather.”
The Packers’ victory, coupled with the Philadelphia Eagles’ 20-16 triumph astatine Washington earlier successful the day, dropped the Vikings (7-9) from postseason contention and gave the Eagles a playoff berth. The Vikings were playing without backmost Kirk Cousins aft helium was placed connected the reserve/COVID-19 database Friday.
“Disappointing tonight,” Vikings manager Mike Zimmer said. “I didn’t consciousness similar we gave ourselves a accidental to win.”
Rodgers went 29 of 38 for 288 yards with a 20-yard touchdown walk to Allen Lazard and an 11-yarder to Davante Adams, who caught 11 passes for 136 yards.
Adams has 117 receptions to interruption the Packers play grounds helium acceptable past year.
“It means that I’m continuing to push,” Adams said. “I said astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth erstwhile I did my farewell station connected Instagram at the extremity of the season. At the extremity of that post, I said don’t beryllium amazed if I travel backmost better, erstwhile I travel backmost better. I anticipation radical aren’t amazed due to the fact that I said it up of time.”
Over his past six games, Rodgers has thrown 18 touchdown passes without an interception contempt playing with an injured near pinky toe.
The reigning MVP has thrown 56 vocation regular-season touchdown passes against the Vikings, the astir they person allowed to immoderate quarterback. Brett Favre, who preceded Rodgers arsenic the Packers quarterback, threw 54 touchdown passes against the Vikings earlier ending his vocation with them.
Packers manager Matt LaFleur broke George Seifert’s 30-year-old NFL grounds for the astir regular-season wins by a manager successful his archetypal 3 seasons. LaFleur has a 39-9 regular-season people and 41-11 wide record. Seifert had a 38-10 regular-season grounds from 1989-91 successful his archetypal 3 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
Dillon ran for 2 second-half touchdowns and gained 63 yards connected 15 carries. Aaron Jones gained 76 yards connected conscionable 8 carries arsenic the Packers outrushed the Vikings 174-27.
The Vikings had won their past 2 matchups with the Packers but ne'er had overmuch of a accidental successful this 1 without Cousins, who threw for 341 yards and 3 touchdowns successful a 34-31 location triumph implicit the Packers on Nov. 21.
The Packers person won 5 consecutive since that nonaccomplishment successful Minnesota.
Sean Mannion started successful spot of Cousins and went 22 of 35 for 189 yards, including a 14-yard touchdown walk to K.J. Osborn. Mannion was making his 3rd vocation commencement and archetypal since the last week of the 2019 season.
“I consciousness similar Cousins gets the shot retired a small spot faster than the backmost that played today,” Packers extracurricular linebacker Rashan Gary said. “We conscionable came to enactment arsenic a defence and got the outlook that we wanted.”
The Packers reached the reddish portion connected 3 of their archetypal 4 possessions but had lone a 6-0 pb to amusement for it, acknowledgment to Mason Crosby’s 2 tract goals. But they broke done by reaching the extremity portion connected their adjacent 3 possessions, including 2 touchdowns successful the last 4½ minutes of the archetypal half.
“Give them credit,” Zimmer said. “They’re a bully squad and they got aft america tonight.”
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