The Green Bay Packers lastedlongerthan the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in one of the mostsignificant face-offs in Week 3. It was a videogame neither side oughtto be very ecstatic about.
Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers engaged in a rock battle, with a last-second hold-up of videogame serving as the last stone that compressed Tampa’s return hopes. This stat sheet will note this videogame was a 14-12 roadway win for a roadway underdog. It just scratches the surfacearea of how unsightly things got — and how quite the Philadelphia Eagles, whose videogame ended priorto this one kicked off, would up looking as a result.
What looked like it might be a Packer romp rapidly degenerated into Green Bay’s worst offensive worries. Aaron Rodgers tossed goal passes on his veryfirst 2 drives to take a 14-3 lead. In the procedure, he made novice Romeo Doubs appearance like a correct Davante Adams replacement, if just quickly.
.@RomeoDoubs surfaces the drive!
TOUCHDOWN! 🙌#GBvsTB | #GoPackGo
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— Green Bay Packers (@packers) September 25, 2022
Green Bay threatened to put this videogame away its following drive priorto Aaron Jones fumbled inside the Tampa Bay two-yard line. That marked the end of of the Packers’ scoring danger. They had 9 drives after this point; just 2 acquired more than 8 internet backyards.
Without a constant large getting corps, Rodgers was decreased to a list of brief passes the Buccaneers smelled out with ease. Doubs managed some heavy lifting early, however primarily looked like a fourth-round choice after the veryfirst quarter. Allen Lazard stayed a important path runner and downfield blocker however not a fear-inducing downfield hazard.
14 of Rodgers’ 17 second-half tosses tookatrip less than 10 lawns beyond the line of skirmish, consistingof 13 straight to start the half. Part of this was a quarterback securing a lead, however a much larger part was his wideouts’ failure to develop separation downfield. This produced a situation where Aaron Rodgers was routinely tossing brief of the sticks on the 3rd down, Mitch Trubisky-style.
Gross! But it resulted in a winning effort since Tom Brady was even less reliable. His absence of getting depth — Chris Godwin and Julio Jones were out due to injury and Mike Evans missedouton the videogame thanks to a suspension for lighting up Marshon Lattimore for … some factor — made him the Dollar Tree variation of Rodgers’ annoyed QB.
It took him 58 minutes to fracture the Packers’ defense fo