3. Had Rodgers completed that last TD toss to make it a three-score game, he also would have broken Brett Favre’s franchise record for touchdown passes.
Instead, Rodgers had to settle for a tie with Favre for now at 442. The tying one came on a slant pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling, who caught five passes for 98 yards on a day the Ravens focused their coverages on Adams, who still caught six passes for 44 yards and a score.
Since the Packers got the win anyway, Rodgers is excited about the opportunity to break Favre’s record in front of the home crowd on Christmas Day. He was most proud in this game of the offense’s ability to answer the bell numerous times when it had to.
The Packers tied the game twice after the Ravens took leads of 7-0 and 14-7. Then Green Bay started the second half with a 13-play, 80-yard TD drive, capped by a 9-yard pass to running back Aaron Jones, that took 7:20 off the clock and put the Packers in the lead – as it turned out, for good.
“I know they were beat up and had some COVID issues on defense, but they still have a really good scheme and a really good front,” Rodgers said. “To score 31 on the road, I thought it was good football by us to respond the way we did.”
4. The defensive shortcomings down the stretch were mostly due to not containing Huntley in the pocket.
As Huntley, filling in for the injured Lamar Jackson, directed the two TD drives down the stretch to give the Ravens a chance to steal the game, he scrambled six times for 45 yards and ran for both of the scores himself.
He had run for only 28 yards until those last two possessions, but he made the Packers pay every time they gave him running room late in the game.
“I’ve got to go back and look at it, but certainly we were not good enough,” LaFleur said. “Huntley was able to get outside and create a lot of off-schedule plays and move the sticks with his legs.
“Certainly any time we lose a guy like Kenny (Clark), I think that has an impact. But ultimately it comes down to doing your responsibility and guys got to own that.”
Once again, the special teams didn’t help much, until securing the final onside kick. The Packers gave the Ravens a free 15 yards on an early punt by running over the returner before the ball arrived. A delay-of-game penalty before the Packers’ last punt also cost 5 yards, while the Ravens returned one kickoff out near the 40 and the Packers let a pop-up kickoff bounce and roll around a while before recovering it.
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